Agent sends spurious `q^C^D` commands with default terminal "Command Prompt"

Bug Reports
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Describe the Bug

In chat (agent mode), command invocations are followed up with a spurious second invocation of q^C^D, which fails with error:

'q♦♥' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Preconditions:

  • default terminal is set to “Command Prompt”

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Start a new chat
  2. Prompt: “run command whoami.exe”

Expected Behavior

Chat terminal output shows the result of running whoami.exe

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.1.7 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: 7111807980fa9c93aedd455ffa44b682c0dc1350
Date: 2025-07-01T07:38:05.103Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22621

Additional Information

Encountered when trying to prompt the agent to interact with Visual Studio build tools.

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

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Hey, try this:

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This is apparently solved in 1.2.0

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Has only happened to me once on 1.2.0 but I’m assuming its more user settings and terminal explicit cmds that is being forced via Powershell. I have to use comprehensive rules & “prompts” in order to have it use the proper string of commands for when I run .ps1 files etc. in order to avoid this.

For some reason it always wants to do && which doesn’t work.