Cursor’s coding agents degraded when using non-fast Grok 4.6

Cursor reported degraded performance for requests using non-fast Grok 4.6 across its coding-agent surfaces.

Human reviewed · generated by codex/gpt-5.6-luna

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Summary

Cursor’s status API recorded the incident at 09:32:24 UTC, affecting Automations, CLI, Cloud Agents, cursor.com and the IDE. Cursor said users could see slowness and high error rates, while other models were unaffected, and marked the incident resolved at 13:40:26 UTC.

Why it matters

A model-specific outage inside an agentic IDE shows why multi-provider routing and explicit fallback behaviour matter to developer workflows.

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https://status.cursor.com/api/v2/incidents.json

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