Hey, thanks for the report. Let’s dig in. The sounds that are still playing aren’t the Completion Sound you already turned off. They’re VS Code built-in accessibility signal sounds. They play on events like terminal command completion, progress updates, and file edits. By default they’re set to auto, which means they can turn on automatically when macOS tells Cursor there’s an active accessibility tool connected, like HomeRow, Wispr Flow, window managers, and similar apps. That’s why it feels like the sounds come out of nowhere.
If you’re in the Agents window, the command palette only shows agent commands, so searching for “sounds” won’t find anything. Do this from the IDE instead:
- Open Cursor in IDE mode, not the Agents window.
- Press
Cmd+Shift+PorCtrl+Shift+P, then runPreferences: Open User Settings (JSON). - Inside the outer
{ }, add these two lines. Add a comma after the previous line if needed:
"accessibility.signalOptions.volume": 0,
"editor.accessibilitySupport": "off"
- Save the file and restart Cursor.
The first line mutes all signal sounds. The second prevents accessibility mode from getting turned back on by other apps.
About there not being an easy toggle for this in the Agent Window, fair point. I passed that to the team as feedback. If you still hear sounds after restarting, tell me exactly when it happens, like on every terminal command or while the agent is thinking, and share the version from Cursor > About so we can dig deeper.