diff --git a/jakarta.ls/src/main/java/org/eclipse/lsp4jakarta/JakartaTextDocumentService.java b/jakarta.ls/src/main/java/org/eclipse/lsp4jakarta/JakartaTextDocumentService.java
index 04df3154..79c81678 100644
--- a/jakarta.ls/src/main/java/org/eclipse/lsp4jakarta/JakartaTextDocumentService.java
+++ b/jakarta.ls/src/main/java/org/eclipse/lsp4jakarta/JakartaTextDocumentService.java
@@ -139,8 +139,10 @@ public CompletableFuture<Either<List<CompletionItem>, CompletionList>> completio
             	return getCursorContext.thenCombineAsync(getSnippetContexts, (cursorContext, list) -> {
                     // Given the snippet contexts that are on the project's classpath, return the
                     // corresponding list of CompletionItems
-            		var kind = cursorContext.getKind();
-            		list.add(kind.name());
+                    if (cursorContext == null) {
+                        LOGGER.severe("No Java cursor context provided, using default values to compute snippets.");
+                        cursorContext = new JavaCursorContextResult(JavaCursorContextKind.BEFORE_CLASS, ""); // error recovery
+                    }
                     return Either.forLeft(
                             snippetRegistry.getCompletionItem(replaceRange, "\n", true, list, cursorContext, prefix.toString()));
             	});