Cursor Terminal is broken

Support Bug Reports
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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Everytime cursor runs any terminal command it stucked every single time then i need to manually click Shift + Skip.

example command it stucked in agent mode.
docker exec docker-postgres-1 psql -U postgres -d _chatbot -c “\d search_ready_chunks”

Steps to Reproduce

Reproducible for longer chat history.(chat size is big)

When you create new chat terminal commands are working fine

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.5.9 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3

Date: 2025-08-30T21:02:27.236Z
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

Yes - Cursor is unusable

2

Hey, thanks for the report here!

We’ve been working hard on the reliably of terminal command execution recently, and I’ve passed this to the team to look into - I’d expect significant improvements here in our upcoming versions :raising_hands:

3

Yes I can second having these issues as well. When it runs a command like a started server on localhost it just sits there and hangs. I would expect it to start the server and move on to the next task on it;’s list. The only option is to skip the command most of the time and then the long running process ends.

4

just update to powershell 7 ask your backgroundagent from the browser to help you thats what i did