I use Cursor a lot and it works well for me, so my installation seems fine. However, today I tried using Agent in composer with Yolo mode on to see how it would handle a simple React Typescript app boilerplate. As soon as it tried to run npm it said not found and started trying to install it with ap…

Hey, try explicitly setting your default shell for Cursor, as it might not be detecting it. Here’s more information: [image] Terminal Profiles Visual Studio Code's integrated terminal allows configuring various profiles to make launching various shells easier. …

this works fine for integrated terminals, but it does not work for composer agent’s terminals. Nothing I’ve tried can affect the behavior of the shell it spawns

I was able to create a rule under the cursor settings and explicitly tell the model “Hey if you ever spawn a shell to run commands, you better ■■■■ well use /bin/bash… I don’t want to see no zsh around these here parts, you understand?” and it proceed to use /bin/bash in the agent.

Composer Agent is Using The Wrong Shell in Ubuntu 24.04

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vittorius (Victor Zagorodny) April 18, 2025, 9:26am 5

Also, this can be a workaround

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Composer Agent is Using The Wrong Shell in Ubuntu 24.04

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