Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug Brief summary: The agent’s shell tool starts a minimal non-login shell, so environment setup from ~/.zshrc (like activated Python/pixi environments) is never loaded. Where it appears: Agent mode shell tool when running git …

Hey, thanks for the pointer! I did end up going down that rabbit hole and found that the ~/.zshenv approach mentioned there doesn’t fully work for our setup — Cursor’s snapshot restore runs after .zshenv and clobbers the PATH changes anyway. What actually fixed it was the preToolUse hook approach t…

Agent shell tool doesn't source login shell, causing pre-commit hooks to fail

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Colin (Colin) April 9, 2026, 12:55pm 5

Hey @LaurenLeite !

I think there may be some helpful tips available over in this thread: Cursor terminal documentation missing non-interactive agent shell configuration guidance - #6 by mohitjain

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Agent shell tool doesn't source login shell, causing pre-commit hooks to fail

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