I can no longer “ @web ” to tell the agent to search the web. I need to type out “search the web for…” and the agent still sometimes is lazy and doesn’t search. However the largest problem is that when the agent does search the web, the response given to the agent is useless. See below. There’s some …

Until then, I am going to close the thread; if the results weren’t showing, that would be a different bug, but we’re going to improve the results soon.

We are looking into this; was not aware and don’t have many reports

In my testing, I can use web search. Could you share a couple of recent request IDs?

Sure, here are three that I just tested. a9b915e1-df4e-428a-b0e0-c9e89360feea I asked the agent to find reddit threads discussing the differences between the different deep research api providers (perplexity, gemini w/ google search grounding, etc.). I would expect to get back results like any of …

[image] BigPartyMolasses: I asked the agent to find all of the Cursor office locations. I would expect it to tell me San Francisco, California, and Manhattan, New York. At first it found many different companies named Cursor (understandable), the agent then tried to narrow down the search by ad…

Hello, this is a core feature necessary for Cursor to operate. What is taking so long with fixing this? it’s clearly a critical incident. Why hasn’t it been elevated? The service is broken since 5th of November in this thread and you are charging customers?!

It has been broken for me for a while now. Responses are irrelevant and completely useless. Please fix it.

Tagging some cursor team members to bring attention to this issue @condor @danperks @Kody_Fisher @andrewh Can you fit a fix for this issue into your next sprint?

Andrew is already in this thread and notified. Note that we require Bug Reports to be filed in Bug Reports but in this case I believe we have that already, so this is a duplicate.

Ok - just trying to see if it can get prioritized as this has been an issue for at least 3 months now. I’ll continue further discussion in the other thread.

I don’t think this is a “fit into next sprint” kind of situation. This is a in the middle of the night emergency patch kind of situation. The fact that it has been going on this long is wild.

Web search is completely broken after the latest update

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Web search is completely broken after the latest update

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