Tons of "Tool call timed out" with GPT-5

Bug Reports
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Describe the Bug

GPT-5 tools calls seem to generate tons and tons of errors of the forms “Tool call timed out after 10s (read file)”, “Tool call timed out after 10s (list files)”, “Tool call timed out after 12s (codebase search)”.

Doesn’t seem to be the issue with other models, such as claude 4 sonnet.

Steps to Reproduce

Ask GPT-5 any broad question or give a broad task about a large codebase

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.4.2 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 07aa3b4519da4feab4761c58da3eeedd253a1670
Date: 2025-08-06T19:23:39.081Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 21.6.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable
Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor
No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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2 posts were merged into an existing topic: GPT-5 doesn’t call the to-do list tool at all