Im using cursor in agent mode 99% of the time. Yet a lot of times it simply gets stuck not executing a command and usually once I just click “Move to background” it immediately continues. I don’t quite understand why you guys can’t seem to fix that.

I am getting a similar issue. I gave a prompt to a background agent. It says it’s finished, but if I open the background agent tab, I still see the “loading…” status and I cannot submit any new prompts. I don’t know where to see the changes that were made to the code or what to do next. It’s just st…

same error here, please fix it because it spends more requests

Same issue here with agent mode: it blocks any AI response that includes a shell command. (until clicking to “Move to background”)

this is soo annoying - and I tried literally every solution recommended here and on Reddit, enabling Zsh, disabling powerlevel10k etc. It’s worse than ever. I can’t believe why this hasn’t been fixed yet.

any news? some config to automatically run in background?

If you’re running a test and the test is configured to wait for changes, the Cursor agent window will not proceed because your test runner is blocking. This probably applies to any other command that waits for changes, like running an app with nodemon.

I’m having this issue and it has nothing to do with what’s running in the console. It’ll just hang until I click “move to background”. It could be a grep or simple script or even just an echo.

cursor please fix this it is super annoying

Now it really likes to use Unix commands in the Windows environment and repeatedly make errors, even though I emphasized in the rule that it should not be done. I really like the toolset that cursor used to come with (such as Parallel_APPLY, which was amazing when I first saw it, it’s my favorite t…

Agent keeps getting stuck and can only continue after "Move to background"

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cyxer June 25, 2025, 1:46pm 15

This fixed the issue for me:

Guide: Fix Cursor Agent Terminal Hangs Caused by .zshrc

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Agent keeps getting stuck and can only continue after "Move to background"

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