Paste does not work in Question response 'Other' field

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

When responding to Agent questions, the ‘Other’ field that lets you type in a different answer to the question does not allow cut and paste.

Steps to Reproduce

Have the agent ask clarifying questions, when presented with options, select the ‘Other’ option so you can type an answer in. Once the text field is in focus attempt to paste in from the clipboard.

Expected Behavior

Clipboard text should be pasted into the field

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 2.4.36 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: f9919bf991f247689f9ead605b5c5a3239a2a790
Date: 2026-02-12T21:00:33.976Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.2.7
Chromium: 142.0.7444.235
Node.js: 22.21.1
V8: 14.2.231.21-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.2.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

Subsequent sessions, paste works, so it appears to be intermittent. Unclear of any environmental reasons for that.

Hey, thanks for the report.

A few questions to help understand the pattern:

  1. When paste doesn’t work, can you type text manually into the “Other” field? Or does it not accept any input at all?
  2. Have you noticed any correlation, like it happens after certain actions (after the first launch, after switching between windows, after a specific type of Agent request)?
  3. Are you using any clipboard managers (Alfred, Paste, ClipMenu, etc.) or keyboard remapping tools?
  4. When the issue happens, does normal Cmd+V work in other fields in Cursor? Or is it only broken in this specific “Other” field?

This will help us figure out if it’s related to focus handling, clipboard access permissions, or something else.