Agent mode terminal not working

[Oliver_Michalik (Oliver Michalík)]

After many months, this is till an issue, here is my full summary of this and related problems:

Terminal getting stuck, hangs, stalls forever, not displaying output in windows (auto-run agentic mode)

Describe the Bug There are a lot of related posts/bugs about terminal not working properly, but none properly describes what is happening or offer solutions. The problem: When Agentic mode is running terminal commands, sometimes it does not show output and stalls forever, preventing the agent continuing working. I do not completely know how the terminal execution works in Cursor, bu it seems like it’s often trying to re-use the previous terminal to execute additional commands. This is when thi…