Agent Terminal not executing in login shell mode

[sanjeed5 (Sanjeed)]

Thanks for reporting this issue. We’re working on a lot of terminal improvements in upcoming releases, but meanwhile can you see if any of these solutions help:

Agent interaction with the terminal is broken

Hey! I faced a very similar issue on MacOS 26.0 — the command runs fine in the terminal, but Cursor Agent never proceeds or generates a follow-up. If you’re using a custom shell setup (like oh-my-zsh, a modified .zshrc, or anything that alters shell behavior), that could be interfering. Quick question: Are you using oh-my-zsh or any customized .zshrc or .bashrc config? In my case, the fix was simply adding this line to the top of my .zshrc: if [[ "$TERM_PROGRAM" == "vscode" ]]…

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