The chat says "Waiting for approval..." but no Approval button ever appears

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Version: 3.0.9 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 93e276db8a03af947eafb2d10241e2de17806c20
Date: 2026-04-03T02:06:46.446Z (19 hrs ago)
Layout: editor
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.2.0

Agents tested: claud-4.6-opus-high and claude-4.6-sonnet-medium and composer-2-fast

While working on a task, the agent stops and says “Waiting for Approval…”, but no approval button ever appears.

I’ve tried starting a new agent, quitting the application and starting again, using a different prompt from scratch, uninstalling Cursor and reinstalling it. So far nothing works to get the approval button to appear. I’m stuck on how to proceed.

Steps to Reproduce

This is happening for me with this agent, claude-4.6-sonnet-medium, and composer-2-fast. It appears to be a general Cursor UI issue rather than an agent issue.

Expected Behavior

An approval button should be showing.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

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Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 3.0.9 (Universal)

For AI issues: which model did you use?

claud-4.6-opus-high and claude-4.6-sonnet-medium and composer-2-fast

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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Hi @John_Allred Thanks for reporting, and I apologize for this. By any chance, are you using the high contrast theme? There is a known bug there where the Run / Approve button is not showing up in that theme. If you disable the theme, it should be resolved. Please let me know if that is not the case.

If you want to keep the high contrast, there is still a workaround for that, you can install the GitHub Theme extension and switch to GitHub Dark High Contrast. It’s very similar to the built-in High Contrast theme, but renders link colors differently in the chat panel.

  1. Install the extension: GitHub.github-vscode-theme

  2. Set your theme to GitHub Dark High Contrast

More info here: Dark High Contrast theme Link Color Broken - #7 by kevinn

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That was it! I was using a high contrast theme. Once I changed it to a non-high contrast theme, it was visible. Thank you!