Cursor intermittently fails to detect task completion in the terminal, requiring multiple manual Enter presses to unfreeze interaction

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Terminal gets stuck and unless I manually hit Enter several times in the terminal, Cursor does not recognise that the task was finished

Steps to Reproduce

Just work through, and eventually that starts happening in the fifth or so time cursor uses the terminal

Expected Behavior

Expecting cursor always to identify that the task it started in the terminal is finished

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.5.11 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 2f2737de9aa376933d975ae30290447c910fdf40
Date: 2025-09-05T03:48:32.332Z
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

Additional Information

Request ID: 8768e8f5-f2cd-410d-afce-74a1916aeeb5

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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