Contributors sidebar shows a user with zero commits (stale cache)

[shengyongniu]

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Hi there,
The Contributors panel on my repository is displaying a user (cursoragent / "Cursor Agent") who has zero commits in the repository. Every authoritative API returns only my account, but the rendered Contributors widget still lists cursoragent, including in a logged-out incognito window (so it is not my browser cache). I believe the repository's cached contributor graph is stale and needs to be recomputed on your side.
Any suggestion?

[AhmadHassan-BTed]

GitHub heavily caches the repository sidebar and Contributors graph separately from the actual raw Git history. Even if the API is clean, the UI cache can get stubbornly stuck.

The fastest trick is to force GitHub's backend to recalculate your repo's metadata and bust that cache: push an empty commit.

Run this in your terminal:

git commit --allow-empty -m "trigger github reindex"
git push

This acts as a manual ping to their background workers.

While you wait for that to process, double-check that the cursoragent user isn't lingering in an old closed Pull Request, an archived branch, or a forgotten tag. GitHub factors all of those into the sidebar, not just your default branch.

If you push the empty commit and the ghost user is still hanging around after a few hours, you'll need to open a ticket at support.github.com. Only GitHub staff can manually clear a truly stuck repository cache.