DevContainer still not shuting down containers on exit

[shayani]

Describe the Bug

There was a topic related to that, but was closed without solution. I’m reopening it.

Docker Compose services not shutting down with shutdownAction: stopCompose

Describe the Bug I am experiencing an issue where my Docker Compose containers do not shut down automatically when I close a remote container session in Cursor. In VS Code, using the standard ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers extension, closing the editor window also shuts down the entire docker-compose stack as expected. In Cursor, with the Anysphere Dev Containers extension, the containers remain running in the background, requiring me to manually run docker-compose down to stop them. This h…

When I shut down Cursor, the docker containers from the DevContainer (using Anysphere extension) doesn’t shutdown automatically.

Steps to Reproduce

Open a project with DevContainers. Then, close Cursor. The containers will still be up.

Expected Behavior

The containers should be down.

Operating System

Linux

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.4.2
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 07aa3b4519da4feab4761c58da3eeedd253a1670
Date: 2025-08-06T19:23:39.081Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.12.41-1-lts

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue