Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug Hooks with an output of ASK are supposed to stop the agent from executing, for example, an MCP request, until the user approves. On version <2.2, that worked, however at some point with v2.3 change it stopped working and allow…

Hey, thanks for the report. I can see in the screenshot that the hook returns ASK, but the MCP commands run without waiting for confirmation. This looks like a regression in hook permission handling. We had similar issues with hooks in previous versions, like userMessage and agentMessage being igno…

Confirmed still occurring in 2.4.5

seeing same exact issue: [image] Hooks: "ask" permission broken in 2.4.21 Bug Reports Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug When a beforeShellExecution hook returns permission: "ask", the command executes immediately without …

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug When a beforeShellExecution hook returns permission: "ask", the command executes immediately without prompting the user for approval. The allow and deny permissions work correctly - only ask is broken. Permission Expecte…

common team! this should be easy!

@deanrie this is still an issue 2.4.37 could you please escalate?

This is still happening in 2.6.11, permission: "ask"just doesn’t work

Hook ASK output not stopping agent

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Hero_Of_Ages (Hero_Of_Ages) January 27, 2026, 3:01am 6

seeing same exact issue:

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The cursor hooks did not execute as expected Bug Reports mcp , auto-run , hooks	2	136	March 26, 2026
Hooks return ALLOW but MCP tool still requires manual approval / gets skipped Bug Reports mcp , auto-run , hooks	1	103	March 21, 2026
Hooks returning deny do not seem to block tool execution (possible security concern) Bug Reports hooks , security	2	161	March 11, 2026
AskQuestion tool does not trigger cursor hooks (Repost?) Bug Reports hooks , cli , linear-linked	3	58	July 3, 2026
beforeShellExecution returns permission: "ask" but sandboxed Agent shell still runs the command (sandbox: true) Bug Reports sandbox , terminal , auto-run , hooks	2	113	March 23, 2026

Hook ASK output not stopping agent

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