Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug In the latest update all shell commands being executed are beingh hidden, obscuring what the agent is doing and allowing for security issues to whiz by if a setting is wrong. This should be a setting at a minimum with default…

Hey, thanks for the report. Could you share a screenshot of what you’re seeing? I want to confirm if the commands are fully invisible, or if they’re just collapsed and you can click to expand them. Recent updates added collapsible output for terminal commands in the chat panel. They might look mini…

They are collapsed in a new UX pattern. Im in manual approval mode. It would be very nice indeed to have at least a settings option to say “auto collapse approved commands” on/off to preserve the old behavior Thanks!

This is an absolutely horrible design decision that I can’t for the life of me figure out why you went with. Users of Cursor shouldn’t be forced to click a button every time they want to see the output of the commands the agent runs. What were you thinking? And there is no way to disable it either?…

[image] Uncompacting agent command execution Help Hey @rsb I think you’re looking for this setting under Cursor Settings > Agents > Inline Editing & Terminal > Collapse Aut-Run Commands. [Screenshot 2026-03-10 at 14.43.55]

Yes, thanks, that setting worked. When you guys add settings like this, would be nice if the default setting was what everyone is used to :wink:

Commands being executed are being hidden by default

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Colin (Colin) March 11, 2026, 10:07pm 9

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Commands being executed are being hidden by default

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