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Cursor's Agent Mode struggles with context retention after ~20 turns

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Users of Cursor's Agent mode are reporting a significant drop-off in context retention after approximately 18-20 turns during extended coding tasks. This issue manifests as the AI reintroducing previously fixed bugs, hallucinating function signatures, and disregarding project constraints. Developers are seeking solutions to maintain context continuity or prune stale information without restarting the chat. AI

IMPACT Indicates potential limitations in current AI agent context windows for complex, long-duration tasks.

RANK_REASON User report on a specific product feature's limitations.

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Cursor's Agent Mode struggles with context retention after ~20 turns

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  1. r/cursor TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/ParrotIntegrated ·

    Ran a multi-turn refactoring stress test on Agent mode—why does context retention fall off a cliff around turn 18–20?

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I’ve been running some controlled tests on long-horizon coding tasks to figure out why Composer/Agent mode goes from brilliant to destructive during extended refactoring sessions.</p> <p>I set up a multi-file refactoring track across 40–50 sequen…

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