diff --git a/packages/ai/src/providers/cursor.ts b/packages/ai/src/providers/cursor.ts
index 53c5d1179..a047da6e8 100644
--- a/packages/ai/src/providers/cursor.ts
+++ b/packages/ai/src/providers/cursor.ts
@@ -1229,9 +1229,13 @@ function sendUnknownApprovedInteractionResponse(
 	fieldNo: number,
 ): void {
 	// `approved {}` on the matching response oneof: field 1, empty message.
+	// Unknown LEN fields carry their raw wire bytes INCLUDING the length
+	// varint (that is what BinaryReader.skip captures and what
+	// BinaryWriter.raw replays verbatim after the tag), so the payload is
+	// `02` (length) `0a 00` (field 1, empty submessage).
 	const response = create(InteractionResponseSchema, { id: queryId });
 	(response as { $unknown?: ProtoUnknownField[] }).$unknown = [
-		{ no: fieldNo, wireType: 2, data: new Uint8Array([0x0a, 0x00]) },
+		{ no: fieldNo, wireType: 2, data: new Uint8Array([0x02, 0x0a, 0x00]) },
 	];
 	const clientMessage = create(AgentClientMessageSchema, {
 		message: { case: "interactionResponse", value: response },
diff --git a/packages/ai/test/cursor-webfetch-interaction-query.test.ts b/packages/ai/test/cursor-webfetch-interaction-query.test.ts
index 540e52c2a..389bd548d 100644
--- a/packages/ai/test/cursor-webfetch-interaction-query.test.ts
+++ b/packages/ai/test/cursor-webfetch-interaction-query.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from "bun:test";
-import { create, fromBinary } from "@bufbuild/protobuf";
+import { create, fromBinary, toBinary } from "@bufbuild/protobuf";
 import { type BlockState, handleServerMessage, type ToolCallState } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-ai/providers/cursor";
 import type { AssistantMessage } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-ai/types";
 import { AssistantMessageEventStream } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-ai/utils/event-stream";
@@ -255,6 +255,25 @@ describe("Cursor interaction queries", () => {
 		expect(response.result.value.result.case).toBe("approved");
 	});
 
+	it("approves an unknown permission-shaped query variant with a decodable frame", async () => {
+		// Simulate a Cursor build newer than this proto: query variant on
+		// field 12 (LEN), which the schema does not name. The reply must carry
+		// `approved {}` on the same field number — and stay decodable: unknown
+		// LEN fields store raw wire bytes INCLUDING the length varint, so a
+		// missing prefix corrupts every byte after it in the frame.
+		const idOnly = toBinary(InteractionQuerySchema, create(InteractionQuerySchema, { id: 21 }));
+		const unknownVariant = new Uint8Array([0x62, 0x02, 0x0a, 0x00]); // field 12, LEN 2: approved {}
+		const raw = new Uint8Array(idOnly.length + unknownVariant.length);
+		raw.set(idOnly, 0);
+		raw.set(unknownVariant, idOnly.length);
+
+		const frames = await dispatchQuery(fromBinary(InteractionQuerySchema, raw));
+		const response = expectInteractionResponse(frames);
+		expect(response.id).toBe(21);
+		expect(response.result.case).toBeUndefined();
+		expect(response.$unknown).toEqual([{ no: 12, wireType: 2, data: new Uint8Array([0x02, 0x0a, 0x00]) }]);
+	});
+
 	it("does not invent a reply for an unknown query variant", async () => {
 		const frames = await dispatchQuery(create(InteractionQuerySchema, { id: 17 }));
 		expect(frames).toHaveLength(0);