The cursor takes a very long time to complete even the simplest tasks.
It starts mapping out a plan of action, then freezes and does nothing.
Or it doesn’t even finish planning the next steps—it freezes halfway through a sentence.
It only works for 10% of requests, which makes the work more difficult. More time is spent on reloading
The problem has persisted for the last 3 days; I’ve updated the course, changed models, but nothing helps
Has anyone else encountered something like this?
Hey, thanks for the report. This looks like a client-side freeze. The backend is handling your requests fine and generating responses, but the UI hangs while rendering. This pattern is familiar on 3.2.x, the bugs are logged, but there’s no ETA for a fix yet.
To understand your exact case and link it to the right ticket, can you share:
Request ID from the frozen chat: chat menu (three dots in the top right) > Copy Request ID
Process Explorer during the freeze: Cmd+Shift+P > Developer: Open Process Explorer. Please send a screenshot with CPU/RAM for Cursor processes, especially extensionHost, ptyHost, and renderer
Does it freeze only in Agent, or also in Plan and Ask?
Does restarting Cursor help, even temporarily?
In parallel, please try:
Start Cursor with extensions disabled: run cursor --disable-extensions in Terminal. If the freezes stop, one of the extensions is likely the cause
If the agent thread has lots of messages or a big context, try starting a new chat. Long conversations can hit renderer memory
Check Activity Monitor and see if Cursor Helper (Renderer) is hitting a RAM limit
Send whatever you can collect and we’ll take a look.