Agent mode doesn't execute commands

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Hey, thanks for the report. This is a known issue with Terminal v3 on macOS. Here are a few things to check in order:

  1. Legacy Terminal Tool: the quickest workaround. In Cursor Settings CMD+Shift+J go to Agents and enable Legacy Terminal Tool. Then run CMD+Shift+P → Terminal: Kill All Terminals, and fully restart Cursor.

  2. MCP servers: if you have any set up (in .cursor/mcp.json or globally), try removing them temporarily. In a few cases, MCP was the thing conflicting with the terminal.

  3. zsh profile: temporarily rename ~/.zshrc to ~/.zshrc.bak and restart Cursor. Plugins like oh-my-zsh or powerlevel10k can block terminal output capture.

  4. Extensions: run cursor --disable-extensions from your normal terminal and see if it works.

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The team is aware of this issue. Let me know which step helped, or if none did, and we can dig in further.