Cursor cuts terminal output in commands

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Frequently when I ask Cursor to debug something it uses commands like: head, tail, grep, output redirection. This is suboptimal since I can’t see the terminal output this way. It is frequently the case that you can spot a mistake early by monitoring the terminal logs as they pop up.

Steps to Reproduce

Appears intermittently during debugging of issues on various projects.

Expected Behavior

Cursor should not cut the terminal output. Or at least this should be controllable via a config option.

Blacklisting commands like head does not help since apparently they are blacklisted only when appearing at the start of command string, which is not always the case.

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 2.5.25 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 7150844152b426ed50d2b68dd6b33b5c5beb73c0
Date: 2026-02-24T07:17:49.417Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.4.0
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.0
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.3.0

For AI issues: which model did you use?

Composer 1.5

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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hi @anatoliikmt and thank you for your post. The terminal is in this case for the Agent and to reduce token consumption the Agent does not output all details. I understand it may not be the preferred answer but as it is not a bug you could create a post in Ideas > Feature Requests

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