Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug The AI agent’s Shell tool fails to execute commands when using Cursor on WSL2. The shell process never spawns (pid: -1), resulting in empty output for all commands. The integrated terminal works perfectly - only the agent’s sh…

Fixed on: Version: 2.2.14 (user setup) VSCode Version: 1.105.1 Commit: 1685afce45886aa5579025ac7e077fc3d4369c50 Date: 2025-12-11T01:12:35.790Z Electron: 37.7.0 Chromium: 138.0.7204.251 Node.js: 22.20.0 V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0 OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100

Agent Shell tool fails to spawn shell process on WSL (pid: -1)

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Cool1 (Cool) December 5, 2025, 12:59am 5

Got the exact same problem

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Agent Shell tool fails to spawn shell process on WSL (pid: -1)

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