Is Cursor a pisces (why is my agent shell in fish)

[philkuz]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

My agent IDE switched to fish all of a sudden. Seems kinda broken when I use it. Also seems like a strange choice to use the 3rd most popular shell for AI agents.

Is this my side? Your side? Genuinely confused.

Steps to Reproduce

n/a

Operating System

Linux

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.4.5
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: af58d92614edb1f72bdd756615d131bf8dfa5290
Date: 2025-08-13T02:08:56.371Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.5.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

[deanrie]

Hey, thanks for the report. You can change the shell in the settings, it might have changed accidentally.

[philkuz]

Default was null for some reason. Microsoft trying to mess with cursor?

[deanrie]

I think it’s set to null by default, but I’m not sure.

[philkuz]

my coworker just noticed this too fyi, seems like a bug, would look into this more