The repository homepage sidebar still lists cursoragent (Cursor Agent) under Contributors after removing

[AntheaPoklewski]

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The repository homepage sidebar still lists cursoragent (Cursor Agent) under Contributors. Insights → Contributors does not include this account, and the commit history on main no longer has a Co-authored-by trailer for Cursor.

On 9 October 2026 I rewrote that commit and force-pushed main. The current tip is f4a897e. How do I refresh the repository contributor cache for the homepage sidebar to remove this.

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[Sagargupta16]

There is nothing left in the repository for the sidebar to read, so what you are seeing is a stale cache on GitHub's side and only Support can clear it.

I checked cool_projects anonymously. A mirror clone has a single ref, main at f4a897e, no commit on any ref carries a Co-authored-by trailer or mentions Cursor, there are no unreachable objects, no pull requests and no forks that could still hold the old commit. The contributors API returns only your own accounts:

gh api repos/AntheaPoklewski/cool_projects/contributors --jq '.[].login'

The docs cover this exact case: "After force-pushing, rewriting history, or deleting commits, repository contributor displays and statistics can take about 24 hours to refresh. If you're a repository owner and contributor data is still incorrect after waiting approximately 24 hours, you can contact GitHub Support." Your rewrite was on 9 October, so the automatic refresh is long overdue and the homepage sidebar is the one surface that did not pick it up.

Open a ticket at https://support.github.com/request under Repositories and give them: the repository name, the rewrite date, the current tip f4a897e, and that Insights > Contributors and the contributors API no longer list cursoragent while the homepage sidebar still does. That is everything they need to purge the cached list; there is no user-side refresh for it.

[AntheaPoklewski]

Thank you for the help! Will do