Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor CLI Describe the Bug When I run cursor-agent -p "<cmd>" even with the -p (print) flag, the process doesn’t release the terminal. I still need to press CTRL+C on macOS to get back control and type new commands. Is there a way to fix this, or som…

Given the situation I observe, the only workaround I see is to kill the process after a timeout.

hi @ThomSMG thank you for the bug report, we are looking into it.

Hi! Meanwhile `2025.09.18-7ae6800` has been released, but I don’t find the problem addressed yet.

It is really painful. @condor can Cursor team please prioritize on this? It makes the execution of CI/CD pipeline difficult. Currently, I have to force kill the process.

Cursor CLI headless mode does not release the terminal

Support Bug Reports

ThomSMG (Thom) September 30, 2025, 7:25pm 7

After an update to 2025.09.18-7ae6800 it is solved for me. Thanks team!

Topic		Replies	Views
Cursor-agent can not return from simple command under headless mode Bug Reports cli	3	359	September 9, 2025
Cursor-agent (cursor cli) continues to run after exiting Bug Reports	1	132	September 23, 2025
Cursor-agent -p non-interactive not exiting at the end Bug Reports	8	375	October 14, 2025
Cursor agent -p (print/headless mode) hangs indefinitely and never returns Bug Reports performance , cli	7	543	March 25, 2026
Cursor CLI hangs when connected to command MCP Bug Reports	2	231	August 26, 2025

Cursor CLI headless mode does not release the terminal

Related topics