Cursor Opus 5.5 errors resolved October 8 after 59 minutes
Cursor reported intermittent errors and failed requests using Opus 5.5 on October 8, 2026. Its status timeline runs from 19:52 to 20:51 UTC, when the incident was resolved. Affected components included CLI, IDE and Cloud Agents.
SessionWatcher editorial · Published · Updated · Source announcement: 2026-10-08
Opus 5.5 degradation resolved
Cursor reported a service degradation affecting Opus 5.5 on October 8, 2026. Users could encounter intermittent errors or failed requests when using that model.
The investigating update was posted at 19:52 UTC. Cursor marked the incident resolved at 20:51 UTC, a 59-minute span between the two status updates.
Sources: Elevated errors affecting Opus 5.5
Affected Cursor components
The status page lists Automations, CLI, Cloud Agents, IDE and Grok Bot as affected. The reported degradation concerned requests using Opus 5.5, not a stated outage of every model.
The incident report does not announce refunds, credit adjustments or usage-limit resets.
Sources: Elevated errors affecting Opus 5.5
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