Describe the Bug
When AI assistant executes terminal commands, the characters ‘v’, ‘w’, and ‘W’ are being completely stripped out, causing commands to fail with malformed paths and syntax errors.
The terminal integration feature has a bug where specific characters are being filtered out or corrupted during command transmission. This affects the AI assistant’s ability to execute commands automatically, as the commands received by the terminal are malformed.
Characters affected:
Lowercase ‘v’ - completely removed
Lowercase ‘w’ - completely removed
Uppercase ‘W’ - completely removed
Uppercase ‘V’ - works fine
Examples of corrupted commands:
source .venv/bin/activate → source .en/bin/actiate
workspace → orkspace
version → ersion
Very Wild Wolves → Very Wild Woles
Steps to Reproduce
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Open Cursor IDE
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Ask AI assistant to run terminal commands containing ‘v’, ‘w’, or ‘W’
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Observe that these characters are stripped from the executed commands
Commands fail due to malformed paths/syntax
Expected Behavior
All characters should be preserved in terminal commands, allowing normal command execution without character corruption.
Screenshots / Screen Recordings
Operating System
MacOS
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
Version: 1.3.3 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: e589175333a2d938c3d944f9bf0993155e655e70
Date: 2025-07-26T19:15:12.946Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.5.0
Additional Information
This bug significantly impairs the AI assistant’s ability to help with terminal operations, requiring manual command execution by the user.
Does this stop you from using Cursor
No - Cursor works, but with this issue