Cursor agent takes longer to start up

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor CLI

Describe the Bug

Not sure why it takes a few seconds to run agent -f now, this wasn’t the case in the last release and it should really do whatever loading it’s doing here async while I type out my prompt.

Steps to Reproduce

Just start agent -f on the latest version in a fresh terminal.

Expected Behavior

It should bring up the text box immediately but it doesn’t, it takes a few seconds

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Latest for both for the CLI

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hey, thanks for the report. The CLI startup speed regression is on our radar. Could you share a couple details to help narrow it down?

  1. What exact CLI version are you on? agent --version
  2. About how many seconds is the delay?
  3. Do you have a “heavy” shell config (.zshrc or .bashrc with lots of plugins, nvm, etc.)? Shell init can sometimes add startup delay.

The idea of making loading async so you can start typing right away sounds reasonable.