Cursor IDE
For the past few days, Cursor has not been executing terminal commands that I try to run from the agent. I’ve done a clean install, including dumping my caches, and nothing seems to work. It asks to run the command, I give it permission, and then it hangs.
Ask the agent to run a command (e.g., “run my local dev server”)
Give it permission to run the command
Cursor agent window says it’s running the command, but there’s no output. It just hangs.
I would expect the agent window to open a terminal in the background, run the command, show its output, and then clear the prompt window for me to write the next prompt in the agent window.
MacOS
Version: 1.6.42
Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor
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THis is happening to me too!!! I edited my .zshrc file as suggested by some and it STILL DOES NOT WORK. CURSOR QA ■■■■■.
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The same thing is happening to me.
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deanrie
September 23, 2025, 3:52am
4
Hey, thanks for the report. We’re aware of this issue and the team is working on a fix.
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yellowful
September 23, 2025, 6:56am
6
Simularlly, just in my situation, there is no run and skip buttons appeared at the bottom right corner.
B353N
September 23, 2025, 8:11am
7
in my opinion with lasts updates they broke up agent terminal …. so yea same situation here
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Same issue here…
Version: 1.6.45
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petun
September 23, 2025, 1:32pm
9
The same:
Version: 1.6.45
If I ask the agent to run some command, it takes too much time. For example:
cd /project && git diff master…new-branch --name-only
This command run takes about a minute in Agent terminal, but in separate zsh terminal it takes less than a second.
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rfelix
September 23, 2025, 2:44pm
10
Same issue
Version: 1.6.45
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 3ccce8f55d8cca49f6d28b491a844c699b8719a0
Date: 2025-09-22T18:22:38.013Z (20 hrs ago)
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.1.0
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xcono
September 23, 2025, 2:53pm
11
I can confirm it times out after about a minute (Ubuntu 22.04, zsh).
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
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samirspatel
September 23, 2025, 5:13pm
12
I thought the terminal was already fixed a couple versions ago, this is a regression
tony-wang
September 23, 2025, 5:23pm
13
Yup, ran into the exact same issue and someone on the dev team recommended me to downgrade to 1.5.11. Immediately fixed the issue.
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rfelix
September 23, 2025, 6:08pm
14
how can you downgrade to a diff version?
mwjt42
September 23, 2025, 6:16pm
15
Links to historic versions here:
Direct download links for the latest release of the Cursor AI-enabled IDE code editor
Uninstall Cursor, and reinstall your preferred version.
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cmkl26
September 23, 2025, 8:15pm
16
Same issues with agent not running any command in Ubuntu through WSL (24.04, zsh)
Version: 1.6.45 (system setup)
You can downgrade to v 1.5.11 (as mentioned in the thread) as a workaround while we’re waiting for a fix to be deployed.
Having the same issue in case it helps:
Version: 1.6.45 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 3ccce8f55d8cca49f6d28b491a844c699b8719a0
Date: 2025-09-22T18:22:38.013Z (1 day ago)
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0
Version: 1.6.45
Downgraded to 1.5 and it worked, but it auto updated again etc and stopped.