Cursor agent ide bug terminal tasks

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

whenever i ask the agent to run a task in the terminal and whenever it fails to do this task it should report that to the agent rather then being in unending loop or being aborted and asks you to copy a error request this is very annoying as who isnt familar with terminals and coding, to fix this you would jsut copy the error output in the terminal and paste into the same agent and it will run the task again and it will work and even know what the mistake was but its not automated i hope you guys fix this as the more task i run in my terminal for dev server testing this bug is very annyoing espically with convex task and the error could be an syntax error still but the error returned from crusror agent during this wont say what even happend and i just have to think of something else until i realized the fix.

Steps to Reproduce

well same thing can happen for other terminals, and this happens when agent runs its own tasks in the terminal for the users complex tasks that could be done manually by the user in the terminal but if cusrors does it most of the time theres a error and the agent doesnt fix the error it returns a error copy request meseage and the user is basically left in a limbo

Expected Behavior

user furstrated with terminal tasks unable to test dev enviroment in various coding langauge doesnt matter which ai agnet i use if terminal fails it fails the corrent error always needs to be adressed

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.3.41 (system setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 2ca326e0d1ce10956aea33d54c0e2d8c13c58a30
Date: 2026-01-16T19:14:00.150Z
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 10.0.26200

For AI issues: which model did you use?

opus 4.5 thinking mode and sonnet 4.5 thinking mode

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

Hey @Bob_Stone

Can you share a specific example? Screenshots would be especially helpful.

What you’re describing is how Cursor should work. When a command fails, the agent should see the error output and either retry with a fix or explain what went wrong. If you’re consistently seeing it loop endlessly or abort without analyzing the failure, that would help us understand what’s happening!

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