Cursor Agent Terminal Hangs (Windows)

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Related: 🛠️ Guide: Fix Cursor Agent Terminal Hangs Caused by .zshrc

Steps to Reproduce

Randomly occurs

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.0.43 (system setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 8e4da76ad196925accaa169efcae28c45454cce0
Date: 2025-10-30T18:49:27.589Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

hi @SmartManoj and thank you for the detailed bug report.

The issue from July is most likely outdated as Cursor 2.0 terminals have been updated.

Can you please share more details on what the specific issue is that occurs so we can reproduce it with latest version?

Note that interactive commands will not run in Agent terminal as agent can not act interactively.

It is not an interactive command.

Issue: Agent thinks that the finished command is still running.

Finished command:

It happens randomly. Same command works subsequently.


How the agent detects the completion of a command?

Could you post a Request ID with privacy disabled so we can look into the details of that request? Getting a Request ID | Cursor Docs

Request ID: 7a114657-c500-4e97-96ac-8e6e0cef007f

After clicking cancel, next user msg (continue) cancelled due to long pause.

I can confirmthsi hapens. I go to the terminal and press enter and it moves it forward. wierd thing yesterday is I tried that and it said Agent terminal read-only . a new behavior that i had not seen. Today it is back to old behavior and works when i click enter to advance teh terminal command