I primarily use WSL on Windows. Currently, Cursor tries to execute commands with PowerShell and these all fail because my environment is set up for WSL. How can I integrate with bash / zsh?

Hi, could you try using the wsl extension? It’s available in the extension marketplace. It will then let you use a wsl shell inside of windows.

I would also appreciate an answer to this one.

I am using the anysphere wsl extension and it is running powershell commands rather than bash whenever I am using the agent.

Hi @cbaxley and @user34 , which version of Cursor are you running, and would you be able to share a request ID where this is happening so we can take a closer look? [image]

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user34 (Jeff Foster) July 14, 2025, 1:43pm 6

Yup, I used the WSL extension except it’s still spawning PowerShell.

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