Bug: Agent Cannot Access Terminal Content When Pasted Output Is Large

Bug Reports
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Describe the Bug

When copying and pasting large terminal output into AI chat, the AI assistant receives only metadata without the actual terminal content.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Run a command that produces long output in terminal
  2. Select large portion of terminal output (1000+ lines)
  3. Copy with Cmd+C and paste with Cmd+V into AI chat
  4. Ask AI about the terminal content

Expected Behavior

AI assistant should be able to read and analyze the pasted terminal output content.

Actual Behavior:

  • :white_check_mark: Short terminal output works: AI can see actual content

  • :cross_mark: Long terminal output fails: AI only receives metadata like manually_added_selection path_only lines=“1-1051” without actual content

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.3.7
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 5d56108ff2401c28f239aa2a527ef424ce7719a0
Date: 2025-07-31T04:04:35.474Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.5.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

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hi @astralski and thank you for the bug report.

Could you post a Request ID with privacy disabled so we can look into the details? Cursor – Getting a Request ID