Known issues

Open problems

Bugs that are still open, and the workaround when one is known.

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Confirmed

Cursor's /review-bugbot subagent always bills as Composer 2.5 Fast

Staff confirmed the review subagent ignores your model choice, including inherit. Here's how to keep a whole review on standard Composer 2.5.

Cursor

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Confirmed

Gmail connector still turns your email links into Google redirects

Staff say a fix is in the works but not live yet, and it hits every platform. Add links in Gmail yourself until then.

Grok Bot

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Confirmed

Old Grok app messages keep reaching some Bots; check your Grok Tasks

Staff say messages your Bots get from the Grok app show up as if you typed them, and an old scheduled task is a common cause. Delete it, don't archive it.

Grok Bot

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Confirmed

Cursor's skill sync can overwrite your local skills folder

Staff confirmed that turning off Sync Skills for Cloud Agents copied an old snapshot over one Mac user's ~/.cursor/skills. Staff say keep it off for now; check the Trash if it hit you.

Cursor

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Reported

Amazon shows Grok Bots an unauthorized-agent page; Musk says shop elsewhere

Amazon now shows some Bots an 'unauthorized AI agent' page, and its Conditions of Use forbid working around it. Musk says buy elsewhere, and pledges that SpaceX will cover Bot purchase mistakes; that pledge is not on Cursor's help pages.

Grok Bot

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Confirmed

Elevated errors hitting Grok models in Cursor tonight

Grok model requests in Cursor's CLI, Cloud Agents and IDE hit capacity errors from 6:25 PM ET Oct 15. Cursor marked it resolved at 1:20 AM ET Oct 16. Grok Bot stayed Operational.

Cursor

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Confirmed

Some Grok Bot computers can't save their backup, so Update stops; don't Reset, staff warn

If Update keeps saying your computer's files aren't ready, your backup may be out of date. Keep working, copy key files off, and skip Reset.

Grok Bot

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Confirmed

Some @bot tags in X replies never reach your Bot

Staff say reply tags can be dropped with no answer from @bot, and they are tracking it. Paste the post link into your Bot's chat until it's fixed.

Grok Bot

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Confirmed

Cursor Auto-review's classify error is a timeout, not a risk call

If harmless calls keep asking for review, your team may be blocking the model Auto-review runs on. Admins can allow it or allowlist read-only commands.

Cursor

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Confirmed

Grok Bots can drop "I'll do it later" promises, staff confirm

A Bot that agrees to do something later may never wake up to do it, and a non-urgent nudge from another Bot won't wake it either. A one-time routine fixes both.

Grok Bot

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Confirmed

Cursor 3.24 chats fail with Connection failed when no folder is open

Staff say the error is not a network problem: chat crashes before sending when the window has no project folder, and opening a folder directly fixes it.

Cursor

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Confirmed

Cursor updates stall on macOS 27; reinstall from the download page

Staff are tracking an update bug on macOS 27 where the install never finishes and Cursor reopens on the old version.

CursorUpdated 14 Oct 2026

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Confirmed

Grok 4.7 requests stalled in Cursor this morning, staff say

Some Grok 4.7 runs hung or never answered from 2:20 to 3:50 AM ET, and slowness returned near 7:45 AM ET. Switch models if it hits you.

Cursor

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Confirmed

Grok Bot's 1Password fill fails on some sign-in pages, staff confirm

On some sites the password gets wiped or never filled, so sign-in fails. Ask for a Secure Form in chat, or use Take over and sign in once yourself while a fix is tracked.

Grok Bot

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Confirmed

Grok Bot computers are reachable again after today's outage

Cursor resolved the Oct 14 Grok Bot computer outage at 5:04 PM ET. Staff now say it began around 9 AM ET, and Update said files weren't ready because frozen computers couldn't be backed up.

Grok Bot

Confirmed

Grok Bot 1Password reconnect fails with must be reconciled

Staff say the lock is in app memory after a failed connect, often from 1Password rate limits. Wait a day, trim the vault, quit fully, then connect once.

Grok Bot

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Confirmed

After an account merge, older bots stick on Working on it

Staff confirmed the merge into The X Subscription can leave pre-merge bots and their routines silent. Don't reset or delete them; a fix is with the team.

Grok BotUpdated 14 Oct 2026

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Confirmed

Cursor automations hit a platform-wide start limit for hours today

PR, Slack and webhook runs blocked by the limit were dropped, not retried. Here is how to find and re-fire them.

CursorUpdated 13 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Synced personal skills do not load inside Cursor automations

Staff corrected an earlier reply: typing the skill name is not enough. Put the skill in the repo, or paste its instructions into the automation.

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Confirmed

Cursor agent rmdir hit a drive root after a quoting bug

Staff say Auto-review should have stopped the recursive delete and asked first. Until a fix, set Run Mode to Ask Every Time.

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Confirmed

Grok Bot sees 0 stars and an empty README on GitHub pages

Staff reproduced empty star, fork, README, and file-list reads. Ask the Bot to use the GitHub API or its browser instead.

Grok Bot

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Confirmed

GPT-6.1 Sol Codex and Work degraded; mitigation monitoring

OpenAI status says Sol in Codex and ChatGPT Work was slow overnight; mitigation is in and recovery is being watched.

OpenAI

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Confirmed

Grok Bot computers were rebuilt today; reinstall system apps

A planned server move around 4:30 PM ET rebuilt Grok Bot computers. Home folders and saved logins survived; system-wide apps and the browser profile did not.

Grok Bot

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Confirmed

Grok Bot routines were held back again Tuesday morning

Staff say scheduled routines are flowing again since about noon ET, but runs missed this morning won't be replayed.

Grok BotUpdated 13 Oct 2026

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Confirmed

Grok Bot routines need a Cursor plan with Automations, not SuperGrok

Staff confirm routine saves check your Cursor plan. On Start, or with only a SuperGrok link, the server refuses the routine.

Grok Bot

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Confirmed

All screens in use can mean one Bot's screen failed to start

Staff say the error is misleading when other Bots on the same computer still have screens. They are tracking it as a known issue.

Grok Bot

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Confirmed

Status page: Grok Bot event routines failed for hours today

Event triggers dropped from 1:52 to 4:29 PM ET Oct 13. Staff say the same shared webhook limit filled again Oct 16; retry with backoff.

Grok Bot

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Reported

Hark Pro known issues: fast-draining limits, GitHub and workspace bugs

If you use Hark Pro, here is what early users hit in week one, what Brett Adcock says is fixed, and what to do meanwhile.

Hark

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Confirmed

Local execution fails on Ubuntu 22.04 and Pop!_OS 22.04

Staff say the Linux build needs a newer C++ runtime than those systems ship. Chat and the cloud computer still work.

Grok Bot

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Confirmed

Scheduled routines don't get the Bot inbox email tools

SendEmail works in the main chat but not in a routine run. Staff say use Gmail unattended, or hand the send back to chat.

Grok Bot

Confirmed

Background scripts freeze when the Bot's computer sleeps

If a long-running script on your Bot's computer goes quiet for hours, the computer was paused. Make each run catch up and have a routine restart it.

Grok Bot

Confirmed

Copy on iOS garbles Chinese and other non-English text

Until the next iPhone update, use Select Text and the small iOS Copy menu instead of the app's Copy button.

Grok Bot

Confirmed

Email-triggered routines fail to save

If your Bot can't create a routine that runs when mail arrives, have it check the inbox on a schedule instead, as staff advise.

Grok Bot

Confirmed

Bots post a stray period instead of staying quiet

In a group chat, one Bot's lone period can set the others off, so watch your usage until staff ship a fix.

Grok Bot

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Confirmed

Idle disconnects on the local computer, Mac and Windows

Reopened for re-test. Staff named a 0.70.2 fix for the unfocused case, but a later staff reply still described the away rule. Screen lock and scheduled-job restart stay open.

Grok BotUpdated 13 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Missing MCP-Protocol-Version header on reused MCP sessions

If your remote MCP server returns empty 400s, have it fall back to the session's negotiated version until Grok Bot is fixed.

Grok Bot

Confirmed

Safety filter blocks that show as "Bot failed to respond"

If one Bot fails while your others reply, its chat may hold flagged security or biology content. Move new work to another Bot.

Grok BotUpdated 10 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Delays and failures in scheduled Grok Bot routines

Message your Bot to run time-sensitive routine tasks now, and leave routines switched on while staff restore scheduling.

Grok BotUpdated 13 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Signature check failures in the Windows in-app updater

Install Setup.exe from cursor.com/download/bot to update when the in-app updater rejects its own download.

Grok Bot

Confirmed

Stale Computer update available notice in the phone app

Ignore the phone's Computer update available notice when the desktop app says your Bot's computer is up to date.

Grok Bot

Confirmed

HTTPS-only outbound traffic on some Bot computers

Use HTTPS endpoints and clone git over HTTPS for now, because database, mail, SSH, and FTP connections time out.

Grok BotUpdated 9 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Skills missing from Bots added from a template

Recreate each skill on the new Bot by hand, because a Bot added from a template arrives without the skills its preview shows.

Grok BotUpdated 12 Oct 2026