On my Mackbook Pro Max 16 2023 I am getting errors from Composer. this happens when it wants to execute a command on the CLI. I am not sure why this is happening. I did install xcode and wondering if this caused something to break. Please let me know. Exception System.InvalidOperationException: …

Hey, can you send a screenshot of how this error presents to you?

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I am not sure why it is trying to use powershell.

Environment: OS: macOS (darwin 24.2.0) System Shell: zsh (/usr/local/bin/zsh) Component: AI Assistant’s run_terminal_cmd tool IDE: Cursor Version: 0.45.4 VSCode Version: 1.96.2 Commit: d9f8a232158c173cb84b31a70a49a9689bf0f770 Date: 2025-01-26T07:23:35.719Z (3 days ago) Electron: 32.2.6 Chrom…

Technical Details: The tool appears to be hardcoded to use PowerShell’s PSReadLine (version 2.3.4) and PowerShell Core (version 7.4.0) This occurs even when the system’s default shell is explicitly set to zsh Attempts to force zsh using /bin/zsh -c still show PowerShell initialization, sugg…

You should be able to add to your AI rules which terminal you want it to use and see if that helps. If not let me know, we may need to add an option to choose the default terminal for the Composer agent!

Where do I add the rule for this and what should I say in that rule?

I’m having similar issues. I thought it was because I had PowerShell installed on my MBP, so I removed it and the VSCode Poweshell extension, but it didn’t solve the issue. Adding the following to the Rules for AI field in the Cursor Settings seems to help; it now always opens a new terminal pane a…

Can you give this a try: [image] Cursor Agent is not using the default shell How To I am using MacOS and had same issue where composer was using powershell and not bash. Following settings in the settings.json worked for me - "terminal.integrated.automationProfile.osx": …

Yup, that worked on my M1 MacBook. I was also able to get it to stop asking me to install PowerShell on my Ubuntu workstation using a similar set of settings "terminal.integrated.automationProfile.linux": {}, "terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.linux": "bash", "terminal.integrated.shellIntegration.…

Having issues with PowerShell. MacBook Apple Silicon

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danperks (Dan) February 5, 2025, 7:23am 10

Can you give this a try:

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Having issues with PowerShell. MacBook Apple Silicon

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