Ctrl + Enter on AI pane chat runs query to Background mode, no matter what

Bug Reports
1

Describe the Bug

If I press Ctrl + Enter on Cursor AI pane chat after entering prompt, it will run in Background agent mode.
I remove Keybinding from Agent menu on bottom of the prompt (which was Ctrl + E), could not find related commands with ‘Ctrl + Enter’ in Keyboard Shortcuts, disabled Background Agent Beta feature in Cursor setting. But nothing worked.

Steps to Reproduce

On Windows10/11(both), SSHing to Linux server

  1. In Cursor AI pane, open a new chat
  2. Enter any prompt (In Agent mode, model set as claude-4-sonnet)
  3. Press “Ctrl + Enter”
    => Chat mode changes to Background mode set as ‘claude-4-sonnet MAX’
    and asks me to Connect to GitHub

Expected Behavior

Just enter the chat in the preset mode
(or force prompt to not wait for running answer from previous prompt and start processing it immediately instead of putting it in the queue)

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.3.4 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: bfb7c44bcb74430be0a6dd5edf885489879f2a20
Date: 2025-07-29T03:59:10.762Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100

and

Version: 1.3.6 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 68b8fe7396ea37d8acdaaaa08ba316ba359a4160
Date: 2025-07-30T18:17:09.810Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631

Happens on both computer

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

3

Hey - heard the feedback on this one, we are going to disable the shortcut.

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