Card #940 · Cursor (AI IDE)
Cloud Agent stability issues: startup failures, hangs, and termination bugs
Cloud Agents frequently fail to start, hang during the 'Running start script' phase, or refuse to terminate after completion. These issues lead to blocked workflows, inability to send follow-up messages, and unintended API usage drain.
Pain score
0.92/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach1.00distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency1.00freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement0.58upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization1.00willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 5 verified quotes
Cloud Agent sessions appear to complete but never fully shut down, which blocks new messages and continues consuming API usage.
Any time myself or anyone on my team attempts to start a cloud agent with a configured environment, it crashes with a generic error before streaming any messages
The environment remains on “Running start script” for over an hour.
when my agent is clearly doing something very wrong, I can’t even stop it or kill it?
i am constantly getting error “connection failed. Please try again, or contact support if the issue persists” and playing whack-a-mole where resuming one agent gives another agent that error.
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