Cursor Background Agents (GitHub, Slack, Web, Linear) failing to spin up as of today; sessions hang 10+ minutes with no start.
Key Takeaways
Affects all Background Agent entry points: GitHub, Slack, Web, Linear integrations.
Both Composer 2 and Composer 2.5 models affected; reporter marks Cursor as fully unusable.
Bug resolved as duplicate of a prior report; thread closed by Cursor staff (deanrie).
Status page showed “all systems operational” during the outage, masking the incident from users checking before filing reports.
Hacker News Comment Review
Commenters indicate the instability was not a one-time spike but intermittent over a full 24-hour window, suggesting a deeper infrastructure issue rather than a brief blip.
