Copying terminal code to agent isnt working

Bug Reports
1

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

I updated cursor today and now I have an error where if I copy contents of the terminal to the agent, it cant see the contents of the terminal.

Error:

I can’t see the terminal output for lines 162-176. Please paste the relevant text here, or describe what you want me to do with it.

Is it:

  • An error message?
  • Output from a command?
  • Something else?

Share the text and I’ll help.

Steps to Reproduce

Copy and paste terminal content to agent chat

Expected Behavior

It should be able to read the content as long as it isnt a .env file.

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.0.77 (system setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: ba90f2f88e4911312761abab9492c42442117cf0
Date: 2025-11-13T23:10:43.113Z
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 10.0.19045

For AI issues: which model did you use?

It is on auto, but I have tried setting it to composer 1 and GPT-5.1 Codex High

For AI issues: add Request ID with privacy disabled

9748223c-d60a-47e1-86fc-ad64da150753

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

2

Hey, thanks for the report. This is a known issue: the agent can’t access terminal content when it’s passed in certain ways.

Workaround: select the text in the terminal and use the “Add to chat” button, or try the Ctrl+I shortcut. This way the terminal output is correctly passed to the agent.

This issue has been affecting users since at least v2.0.34.
The team is aware of this problem and is already investigating it.

3

Using the “Add to chat” button does NOT work. That is not a fix and is exactly the same as using the shortcut or regular paste (all result in sending the “lines”). I have been able to paste the raw text into chate using cmd+shift+v. Which at least gets the context to the LLM.

But yeah, same issue. The LLM cannot see the terminal output. I am on MacOS. Not sure if there might be permissions issue?

4

There is a long history of the chat being kinda broken (see Cannot write in chat prompt / chat editor broken and Cannot write in chat prompt / chat editor broken 2 ). It’s been several months and this is still not fixed.

It may be MacOS-related, I’m also regularly running into Cmd + V erratically working (sometimes it does, sometimes not). Sometimes closing and reopening the Chat solves the issue, sometimes it doesn’t. Quantum programming at its best.