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Cursor silently ran git stash + git reset mid-agent-session, dropping 45 files

Cursor's checkpoint system exists to protect your work during an agent session. In this report, it did the opposite: it ran git stash immediately followed by git reset HEAD on its own, mid-session, with no prompt — and the agent kept working on the now-clean tree without noticing anything had chang…

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  1. 2026-11-11 11:53 · DEV Community — AI
    Cursor silently ran git stash + git reset mid-agent-session, dropping 45 files

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