Tools not working

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

The browser tool, SSH tool and more isn’t working anymore
As soon as tool access recovers, I will immediately continue and complete all to-dos end-to-end:

Steps to Reproduce

I asked the ai to fix a script, and all i got was “As soon as tool access recovers, I will immediately continue and complete all to-dos end-to-end:”

Expected Behavior

It would make the file changes, and restart the service.

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Version: 3.2.16 (system setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 3e548838cf824b70851dd3ef27d0c6aae371b3f0
Date: 2026-04-28T21:07:47.682Z
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: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

For AI issues: which model did you use?

Auto

For AI issues: add Request ID with privacy disabled

ec9269f4-2618-4ba2-b029-145fee463258

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

Hey, this is a known bug: the agent can get stuck in a retry loop when multiple tool calls fail in a row. In your case there were 14 errors: tool failures, permission denied, file not found. The circuit breaker doesn’t trigger correctly here, so the agent doesn’t stop or show a proper error message, and instead prints the “As soon as tool access recovers…” line.

We’ve reported this internally and we’re working on a fix. I can’t share an ETA yet, but I’ll post an update in the thread once I have one.

Workaround for now: start a new chat and rephrase your request. If the agent goes into the loop again, hit Stop right away and try splitting the task into smaller steps. Also check the agent has the right permissions for the files it’s trying to read or edit, some of the errors in your request were due to Permission denied and File not found.

I already had the latest stable version of Cursor.
There was another update later today, and i did restart it, and asked the cursor chat to continue, so it did.
Not sure if they updated something to fix it.
But so far so good.