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Fixing Claude Code "IDE Disconnected" & Session Drops in Cursor

  There are few things more disruptive to a "flow state" than your AI tooling crashing mid-execution. For developers integrating Anthropic's new   Claude Code CLI   into   Cursor IDE , a specific class of stability issues has emerged. You trigger a complex refactor or a multi-file analysis, and suddenly the terminal hangs. You are met with an "IDE Disconnected" banner, a generic 500 error, or a silent failure where the CLI stops responding to input. This is not a hallucination, and it is rarely a problem with the Anthropic API itself. It is a local environment synchronization issue. This guide details exactly why the connection drops and provides a robust, script-based solution to stabilize your Claude Code sessions within Cursor. The Root Cause: Orphaned Daemons and Socket Timeouts To fix the problem, we must understand the architecture of the tool. Claude Code (the CLI) does not operate strictly as a linear input/output binary. When you initialize it, it spins...