Cursor agent CLI gets into bugged state where prompts and responses fail to render

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor CLI

Describe the Bug

frequently the chat gets into a bugged state where I write a prompt, hit enter, and then the prompt disapears and I don’t see it or the response. From that point on the session is bugged and I can’t send any further prompts. if I restart the agent and pull that session back up, I will see the lost prompt and part of the response

Steps to Reproduce

queue prompts while cursor is still recording

Expected Behavior

I should see all prompts

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

cursor-agent -v
2025.11.06-8fe8a63

Additional Information

GhostTTY, vim mode enabled

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

in the recording, also note that, before the window gets totally borked, the chat agent sees a “fubar” prompt but the TUI does not render the fubar prompt anywhere

Hi @Jon_Woodlief and thank you for the detailed bug report.

From your recording I see that it actually works, the prompts are shown and responses too. I do not think that we have a queue in CLI, so when you submit messages while AI is processing they can not be submitted.

@condor The bug is that the CLI gets into a bugged state where it is not recoverable.

Even after AI is done processing the latest response, it is impossible to put any more prompts in that session.

What happened to my prompts at the end of the session? when the UI was showing that it was not generating anything. I type “this prompt will be lost”, hit enter, and nothing happens at all. clearly a bug

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Thanks for the update. I forwarded the report to our team.

@condor - is this forum post the best way to track the bug? Any status updates?

This happens every day and is easily reproducible for me

Yes it is best to track it here as it is connected internally.

This seems to be a similar issue that I’m encountering: Cursor CLI (cursor-agent) sometimes does not respond