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When Cursor's Agent Runs a Multi-Step Workflow and One Call Fails Midway

Quick answer When an agent chains several API calls into one workflow, a failure midway leaves the system in a partial state that the agent is bad at reasoning about. It may report the task as failed but leave the earlier writes committed, or blindly retry the whole sequence and create duplicate re…

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  1. 2026-11-03 05:06 · DEV Community — AI
    When Cursor's Agent Runs a Multi-Step Workflow and One Call Fails Midway

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