Cursor incident
GitHub degradation affecting some Cursor services — Automations, Cloud Agents, Codebase
Cursor experienced a major incident on August 17, 2026 affecting Automations and Review Agents and 1 more component, lasting 6h 6m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Aug 17, 2026, 02:34 PM UTC
We are investigating a service degradation affecting Automations and Cloud Agents related to a GitHub degradation reported in GitHub's status page: https://www.githubstatus.com/
- investigating Aug 17, 2026, 03:25 PM UTC
We are currently investigating this issue. We will provide updates as more information becomes available.
- investigating Aug 17, 2026, 07:43 PM UTC
We’re seeing signs of recovery, consistent with our upstream dependency’s latest status updates. We’re continuing to monitor our service health and GitHub's upstream status (https://www.githubstatus.com/)
- resolved Aug 17, 2026, 08:40 PM UTC
The affected Cursor services have recovered. We’re resolving this incident and will continue monitoring service health.