On Windows 11, using WSL in agent mode, every time a command is executed, an extra "q" character appears automatically after the command ends. What is causing this issue?

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Describe the Bug

On Windows 11, using WSL in agent mode, every time a command is executed, an extra “q” character appears automatically after the command ends. What is causing this issue?

Steps to Reproduce

I asked it to compile the Vue project for me.

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

版本: 1.2.4 (user setup)
提交: 1.99.3
日期: a8e95743c5268be73767c46944a71f4465d05c90
Electron: 2025-07-10T17:09:01.383Z
ElectronBuildId: 34.5.1
Chromium: undefined
Node.js: 132.0.6834.210
V8: 20.19.0
OS: 13.2.152.41-electron.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Relentless ongoing issue with Zsh. It was briefly fixed, but it came back and ruins the agent experience.

There are some workarounds regarding the agent using a different terminal, however the only solution that consistently works is to move away from Zsh to Bash or Git Bash.

Incredibly frustrating that we’re forced to work in a way we don’t want because of an unfixed bug, that’s been reported 100s of times.

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every time i skip a command it sends q^D which is:

  1. q - quit vim like environments
  2. ctrl+D - quit the terminal