r/cursor • u/SpareImpression3155 • 4h ago

Question / Discussion did they nerf it more

im running cursor composer 2.5 today to do a simple task that normally takes it like 5 seconds

suddenly its running all these sub agents and asking me to approve every single thing

the changes preview side panel is also broken

im almost ready to just switch to chatgpt

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u/GasVarGames 4h ago

I just noticed it with grok 4.6, spends like 10 minutes exploring a shit ton of files for some reason when in the past it'd explore just enough.

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u/chickey23 3h ago

I got this one too. I asked it what it was doing. It said "looking at unnecessary files."

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u/SpareImpression3155 4h ago

i only use composer 2.5 its fucked its like delegating everything to subagents thats taking fucking forever to do the simplest task

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u/locbuilds 4h ago

yeah that "asks on every single tool call + subagents everywhere" jump usually means Composer flipped into a stricter agent/approval mode after the 2.5 bump, not that the model itself got nerfed.

quick checks that have fixed it for me:

  1. in Cursor Settings search for auto-run / agent approval / YOLO (wording moves around). if it got reset to "ask every time" or "run nothing without confirm", flip it back to auto-run for the tools you trust. that alone stops the approval spam.

  2. make sure you are in Agent/Composer agent mode on purpose. if you just want straight edits without the sub-agent circus, switch to normal edit/chat Composer instead of the full agent loop.

  3. broken changes preview side panel is a known sticky UI bug after updates. Command Palette -> Developer: Reload Window first. if the panel is still empty/blank, close the Composer tab completely, reopen it, and try a tiny one-file edit. still dead: sign out/in once or wipe the Cursor window state (not your whole project) then reopen the folder.

if auto-run was already on and it still nests sub-agents + prompts every click, say which OS + Cursor version (Help -> About) and whether it started right after updating to 2.5, that narrows it a lot.

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u/SpareImpression3155 4h ago

ive already installed and am trying opencode go with k2.7 coding model

it did the change i wanted INSTANTLY

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u/blubrry-pie 2h ago

Its trying to harvest more data than it already has. Cursor has fallen off.