Random keyboard interrupts

[tamaghnahazra]

Describe the Bug

The agent sends keyboard interrupts to the terminal randomly while a command it generated is running. It then derails itself trying to debug the errors generated

Steps to Reproduce

Not reproducible. Random occurences every ~20 prompts

Expected Behavior

It allows the command to complete, before thinking again, or responding
I have a memory explicitly saying “The user prefers that the assistant not interrupt long-running commands and wait longer for them to complete.”

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

Linux

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.2.4 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: a8e95743c5268be73767c46944a71f4465d05c90
Date: 2025-07-10T17:09:01.383Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100

Additional Information

Ubuntu 20.04 on Windows Subsystem for Linux

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

[tamaghnahazra]

Is no one else running into this issue? I tried emailing Cursor and was only able to get their AI bot to reply. This is progressively getting worse and makes the agent unusable.

[tamaghnahazra]

Update: this is still an issue even with the latest updates
Version: 1.3.5 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 9f33c2e793460d00cf95c06d957e1d1b8135fad0
Date: 2025-07-30T00:37:52.749Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100

Request ID: 58529bba-85e5-43d7-8d12-d39756c65862

[tamaghnahazra]

This code took an amazing 12 attempts to get it to run without interrupting itself. I really want a refund now! This software is a joke.

[tamaghnahazra]

And now the agent has learnt that repeatedly running code is good practice. Even if the code has not been interrupted
Spectacular (sarcasm)

[bwk]

Also happened to me.
it runs a command, then KeyboardInterrupt itself, then try to debug by changing files, and repeat, rapidly consuming the tokens without any progress.