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fix(cursor): show usage limits for browser sign-in#26670

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Problem

Usage → Limits omits Cursor when the provider is signed in through T3. On macOS with T3 Code 0.1.3, Cursor is authenticated (auth.type: "browser") and account usage is enabled, but ~/.t3/caches/cursor.json reports usageLimits.unavailable.reason: "unsupported" with an empty windows array. Codex still shows its session and weekly cards. There is no Cursor row and no notice.

The driver passes the stored browser credential into readCursorUsageLimits as CURSOR_API_KEY. That reader returns unsupported before any request, so the Limits view drops the provider. A configured API key should keep that behavior. A browser login should not: the saved value is a user API key, and Cursor's dashboard accepts the access token from POST /auth/exchange_user_api_key, which is the exchange @cursor/sdk already performs.

Expected: a browser-signed-in Cursor account shows its monthly plan windows (Cursor Models, Other Models, and Overall when Cursor reports them) and the billing-cycle reset.

Related: #19008. #21228 is the same fix and no longer merges with main.

Change

Read the instance's stored browser login, including its backend, and exchange that key for a short-lived access token before requesting GetCurrentPeriodUsage. The exchange stays on the login's own https origin and rejects redirects. An expired or rejected login clears limits. A transient failure keeps the last successful reading and does not change provider readiness. Instances configured with CURSOR_API_KEY still do not read limits from a stored login or a host CLI account.

Scope and approval

This is the failure tracked in #19008. It restores limits for the existing browser sign-in instead of adding a setting or a new usage source. #21228 already proposed this exchange; this PR rebuilds it on current main because that branch conflicts.

Verification

  • pnpm --filter @t3tools/provider-cursor exec vp test run --config ../../vite.config.ts src/server/auth.test.ts src/server/driver.test.ts src/server/usageLimits.test.ts — 3 files, 24 tests passed. The new cases cover a browser login exchanging its key and showing 23% used, a recreated driver, 500s keeping the last reading, a 401 clearing it, an expired login making no request, and a configured CURSOR_API_KEY making no request even when a browser login is stored.
  • pnpm --filter @t3tools/provider-cursor test — 14 files, 94 tests passed.
  • pnpm --filter @t3tools/provider-cursor typecheck — passed.
  • Compared the exchange request with @cursor/sdk 1.0.38: POST {backend}/auth/exchange_user_api_key, bearer user API key, JSON body {}, response accessToken.

Could not check against a live Cursor account or the installed 0.1.3 desktop app. The running app will keep hiding Cursor until a build with this change is installed. No before/after UI screenshot from this build.

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Walkthrough

Cursor authentication now exposes stored browser-login status. The driver passes that login to usage-limit retrieval, which exchanges valid credentials for an access token and requests usage. Tests cover browser-login and configured API-key paths, including expired credentials and request failures.

Changes: Cursor browser-login usage limits

Layer / File(s)Summary
Stored-login state
packages/provider-cursor/src/server/auth.ts		Authentication exposes stored credentials as valid or expired. When no configured API key exists, readApiKey returns a key only from a valid stored login.
Browser-login usage requests
packages/provider-cursor/src/server/usageLimits.ts, packages/provider-cursor/src/server/usageLimits.test.ts		Usage retrieval accepts a stored login, validates its backend URL, exchanges its API key for an access token, and requests usage. Tests cover expired logins, rejected exchanges, and request failures.
Driver authentication and refresh
packages/provider-cursor/src/server/driver.ts, packages/provider-cursor/src/server/driver.test.ts		The driver selects credentials by authentication mode and passes stored-login state to usage retrieval. Tests cover refresh behavior, expired credentials, and configured API-key mode.

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Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

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1sequenceDiagram
2 participant CursorDriver
3 participant CursorAuth
4 participant readCursorUsageLimits
5 participant CursorBackend
6 CursorDriver->>CursorAuth: Read stored login
7 CursorAuth-->>CursorDriver: Valid or expired login
8 CursorDriver->>readCursorUsageLimits: Pass stored login
9 readCursorUsageLimits->>CursorBackend: Exchange API key for access token
10 CursorBackend-->>readCursorUsageLimits: Return access token
11 readCursorUsageLimits->>CursorBackend: Request usage with access token
12 CursorBackend-->>readCursorUsageLimits: Return usage response

Possibly related issues

  • pingdotgg/t3code#19008: Reports missing Cursor Limits data for stored browser or CLI logins; this change exchanges a stored browser-login key before requesting usage.

Possibly related PRs

  • pingdotgg/t3code#24443: Changes the same driver authentication path to avoid passing browser credentials as CURSOR_API_KEY; this PR instead passes the stored login for credential exchange.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#26262: Changes the provider status return shape used by checkProvider, which this PR also updates.

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Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, t3dotgg, macroscopeapp

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A rejected usage request can leave an old limits reading visible. This is a bounded issue, but the rejection should clear the reading before merge if feasible.

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7Review comments at @packages/provider-cursor/src/server/usageLimits.ts:
8- Around line 110-128: In the stored-login usage flow, inspect the usage
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packages/provider-cursor/src/server/usageLimits.tslines 110–128Open thread
……@@ -61,13 +63,80 @@ export function cursorUsageResponseToLimits(
125+ },
126+ // A redirect would carry the user's key to another host.
127+ Effect.provideService(FetchHttpClient.RequestInit, { redirect: "error" }),
128+);
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3rg -n 'probeFailed|unsupported|401|GetCurrentPeriodUsage' packages/provider-cursor/src/server/driver.ts packages/provider-cursor/src/server/usageLimits.test.ts packages/provider-cursor/src/server/driver.test.ts

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2printf '\n--- usageLimits focused tests ---\n'
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4printf '\n--- driver focused tests ---\n'
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Clear stored-login limits on a usage-request 401.

After the exchange succeeds, requestUsage sends GetCurrentPeriodUsage through filterStatusOk. A 401 therefore becomes probeFailed. For the same account, the managed provider retains the last successful limits for that reason. Only an exchange 401 clears them.

Handle a usage-request 401 as signInAgain(checkedAt). Keep other failures, such as 500, on the probeFailed path.

Suggested fix
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1+const requestUsageResponse = Effect.fn("CursorUsageLimits.requestUsageResponse")(function* (
2+ endpoint: string,
3+ token: string,
4+ clientType: "cli" | "sdk",
5+) {
6+ const client = yield* HttpClient.HttpClient;
7+ return yield* client.execute(
8+ HttpClientRequest.post(`${endpoint}/aiserver.v1.DashboardService/GetCurrentPeriodUsage`).pipe(
9+ HttpClientRequest.bearerToken(token),
10+ HttpClientRequest.setHeaders({
11+ "connect-protocol-version": "1",
12+ "x-cursor-client-type": clientType,
13+ }),
14+ HttpClientRequest.bodyJsonUnsafe({}),
15+ ),
16+ );
17+});
18+
19 const requestUsage = Effect.fn("CursorUsageLimits.requestUsage")(function* (
20 endpoint: string,
21 token: string,
22 clientType: "cli" | "sdk",
23 ) {
24- const client = yield* HttpClient.HttpClient;
25- const response = yield* client.execute(
26- HttpClientRequest.post(`${endpoint}/aiserver.v1.DashboardService/GetCurrentPeriodUsage`).pipe(
27- HttpClientRequest.bearerToken(token),
28- HttpClientRequest.setHeaders({
29- "connect-protocol-version": "1",
30- "x-cursor-client-type": clientType,
31- }),
32- HttpClientRequest.bodyJsonUnsafe({}),
33- ),
34- );
35+ const response = yield* requestUsageResponse(endpoint, token, clientType);
36 return yield* HttpClientResponse.schemaBodyJson(CursorUsageResponse)(
37 yield* HttpClientResponse.filterStatusOk(response),
38 );
39 });
40@@
41- return cursorUsageResponseToLimits(
42- yield* requestUsage(endpoint, accessToken, "sdk"),
43+ const usageResponse = yield* requestUsageResponse(endpoint, accessToken, "sdk");
44+ if (usageResponse.status === 401) return signInAgain(checkedAt);
45+ return cursorUsageResponseToLimits(
46+ yield* HttpClientResponse.schemaBodyJson(CursorUsageResponse)(
47+ yield* HttpClientResponse.filterStatusOk(usageResponse),
48+ ),
49 checkedAt,
50 );
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6Review comment at @packages/provider-cursor/src/server/usageLimits.ts around
7lines 110 - 128:
8In the stored-login usage flow, inspect the usage response status before
9`filterStatusOk` converts failures into `probeFailed`; return
10`signInAgain(checkedAt)` for a usage-request 401. Keep other non-OK responses,
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Llokesh-tr11d ago
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Same bug on T3 Code 0.1.5 (desktop app, macOS 27.2.0 arm64), which confirms it's still present after 0.1.3.

  • Cursor instance auth.type: "browser", status: "authenticated"; cursorKeychainUsageEnabled: true
  • ~/.t3/caches/cursor.json → usageLimits: { windows: [], unavailable: { reason: "unsupported" } }, and Cursor has no row in Usage → Limits
  • No CURSOR_* / AGENT_CLI_* vars in the server process env, and no ~/.cursor/auth.json
  • Trace: readCursorUsageLimits succeeds in 0.06 ms with no HTTP child span. That matches the early CURSOR_API_KEY exit, because driver.ts passes the browser credential as CURSOR_API_KEY.
  • main (2026-10-31) still passes { ...processEnv, CURSOR_API_KEY: apiKey } at the same call site, so neither this PR nor #24443 has landed.

Reported via t3 triage with Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5).

Llgaudez4d ago
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Hi! Still hitting this on v0.1.6/0.1.7 (Cursor signed in through T3's browser login → no Cursor row in Usage → Limits). This PR looks like the fix for #19008 but is now conflicting with main. Any chance it could be rebased and merged? Happy to test a nightly. Thanks!

JJulius Marmingerequested changes2d ago

Thanks for the fix! #29419 (af00cf73e1) already exchanges the T3 sign-in key for Cursor limits, and #32448 (4c3a9d5818) removes the CLI fallback. Please cut this down to the remaining separate behavior, such as using the stored login backend for non-default endpoints, with focused coverage.

JJulius Marminge2d ago

Thanks @mnapoliWC for working on Cursor browser-sign-in limits. #29419 (af00cf73e1) already exchanges the SDK sign-in key and reads the limits on main; #32448 (4c3a9d5818) retains that path. If custom-backend support or more specific sign-in errors still matter, please open a smaller PR focused on that remainder.