Cursor CLI does not pick up my Pro account on Windows WSL

[Amille]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor CLI

Describe the Bug

I am user of the PRO Account of Cursor and leveraging Cursor CLI in Windows WSL. It appears that when I login to cursor CLI it does not pick up my Pro Account.

Steps to Reproduce

Here’s the step to Reproduce:

It’s still defaulting to openai:gpt-4o-mini because something on your system is pinning that model (an alias, env var, or a config file that the agent actually reads). Let’s nuke whatever is forcing it and hard-set GPT-5.

Do this in your Ubuntu (WSL) terminal

1. Find what’s forcing 4o-mini

Is there an alias or function shadowing it?

type -a cursor-agent
alias cursor-agent || true

Any env vars telling it which model to use?

env | grep -iE ‘cursor|model’ || true

Any config files containing 4o-mini (Linux home + current folder + Windows home)

grep -Rni ‘4o-mini’ ~/.config ~/.cursor . /mnt/c/Users/ADMIN 2>/dev/null | head -n 50

If you see hits, delete or edit those files/lines. For example, remove any alias lines from ~/.bashrc, and delete configs that mention 4o-mini.

2. Remove all possible configs and caches

Linux side

rm -rf ~/.cursor
rm -f ~/.config/cursor/config.json
rm -f ~/.cursor/config.json

Windows side (sometimes Cursor picks these up if you start in a Windows path)

rm -rf /mnt/c/Users/ADMIN/.cursor
rm -rf /mnt/c/Users/ADMIN/.config/cursor

3. Recreate a clean default (GPT-5) in both expected locations
   mkdir -p ~/.config/cursor ~/.cursor
   printf ‘{ “defaultModel”: “gpt-5” }\n’ > ~/.config/cursor/config.json
   printf ‘{ “defaultModel”: “gpt-5” }\n’ > ~/.cursor/config.json

4. Make a hard override alias (bulletproof)

remove any old alias lines

sed -i ‘/alias cursor-agent=/d’ ~/.bashrc

add a forced-model alias

echo “alias agent=‘cursor-agent --model gpt-5’” >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

5. Re-auth fresh and test
   cursor-agent logout || true
   agent # this runs cursor-agent with --model gpt-5

Error: You’ve hit your usage limit for GPT-5
Get Cursor Pro for more Agents use, unlimited Tab, and more.
fallbackModel: default
spendLimitHit: false
chatMessage: You’ve hit your free requests limit. Upgrade to Pro for more usage, frontier models, Background Agents, and more. Your usage limits will reset
when your monthly cycle ends on 9/18/2025.

Expected Behavior

I should be able to use Cursor CLI with the capabilities of my cursor pro account.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

Linux

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.4.5 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: af58d92614edb1f72bdd756615d131bf8dfa5290
Date: 2025-08-13T02:08:56.371Z
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 10.0.26100

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

[deanrie]

Hey, could you please let me know if the issue is still happening? It might have been fixed in the new version. If you’re still on an older version, try running cursor-agent update.