Background Agent Service Degradation

Sep 9, 16:52 UTC
Identified - The issue has been identified, and a fix is in progress.
A further update will be issued once a fix is deployed.

Sep 9, 16:49 UTC
Investigating - We are currently aware of an issue regarding Background Agents being unavailable in Slack.
During this time, users may see errors about not having write access to their repositories.

via Cursor Status - Incident History