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Vol. I No. 26 Saturday, October 17, 2026 Closing 12:53 PM UTC · next edition 10:00 AM UTC

Is Cursor down?

No open incidents

No open incidents in its feed as of Oct 17, 2026, 12:53 UTC. The latest, "Elevated errors affecting Grok models" (reported Oct 15, 2026, 22:25 UTC), is marked Resolved.

Read from Cursor's own status feed when this page was built, Oct 17, 2026, 12:53 UTC. The paper rebuilds it with each edition, once a day at 10:00 UTC, so it is not live: for the state right now, open the official status page.

Recent incidents

The newest 10 the paper has read from the feed, each linking to Cursor's own page for it. A state is as the feed gave it when last read.

  1. Oct 15, 2026, 22:25 UTCResolvedMinor impactElevated errors affecting Grok models

    We are investigating elevated errors affecting Grok models in Cursor. Some requests may fail with a capacity error. Retrying the request or switching to another model may help.

  2. Oct 14, 2026, 15:46 UTCResolvedMinor impactInvestigating service degradation — Grok Bot

    We are investigating a service degradation affecting Grok Bot and preventing some users from reaching their computers

  3. Oct 13, 2026, 20:29 UTCResolvedMajor impactGrok Bot routines not triggering

    Between 10:52 AM and 1:29 PM PT on October 13, many Grok Bot routines started by webhooks, Slack, git, email and Linear events didn't run. Webhook callers may have seen an HTTP 400 "Automation run rate limit exceeded" error, and other triggers failed without an error. Your own us…

  4. Oct 13, 2026, 00:22 UTCResolvedMinor impactDegraded performance and errors across Cursor services

    We are investigating a widespread issue affecting Cursor. Users may see errors or failed requests across the IDE, Cloud Agents, Automations, Grok Bot, and Origin. Our team is actively working to restore service.

  5. Oct 9, 2026, 22:37 UTCResolvedMinor impact as last read Oct 16, 2026Investigating service degradation — Cloud Agents and Grok Bot

    We are investigating a service degradation affecting Cloud Agents and Grok Bot. Some new Cloud Agents and Grok Bot sessions may fail to start.

  6. Oct 9, 2026, 21:31 UTCResolvedMinor impact as last read Oct 15, 2026Investigating service degradation — Cloud Agents

    We are investigating a service degradation affecting Cloud Agents.

  7. Oct 8, 2026, 19:52 UTCResolvedMinor impact as last read Oct 14, 2026Elevated errors affecting Opus 5.5

    We are investigating a service degradation affecting Opus 5.5. Users may see intermittent errors or failed requests when using Opus 5.5.

  8. Oct 8, 2026, 13:54 UTCResolvedMinor impact as last read Oct 13, 2026Opus 5.5 is Experiencing 429s

    We are investigating a service degradation with Opus 5.5 being used across all product components.

  9. Oct 7, 2026, 15:59 UTCResolvedMinor impact as last read Oct 12, 2026Investigating service degradation — Grok Bot

    We are investigating a service degradation affecting Grok Bot's computers in certain regions.

  10. Oct 6, 2026, 22:48 UTCResolvedMajor impact as last read Oct 9, 2026Investigating service degradation — Cloud Agents

    We are investigating a service degradation affecting Cloud Agents.

Cursor (Anysphere) in the paper

  1. CursorOct 16, 2026Cloud Agent Canvases and Environment Improvements
  2. CursorOct 13, 2026Origin App Marketplace
  3. CursorOct 6, 2026Remote control for local agents
  4. Cursor · YouTubeSep 30, 2026Mercor takes Cursor from Cmd+K to company-wide workflows
  5. Cursor BlogSep 23, 2026Improved token efficiency for longer agent runs
  6. Cursor BlogSep 23, 2026Bots for the last mile: Rollouts, Security Review
  7. CursorSep 23, 2026Rollouts and Security Review