Terminal commands get stuck on running

[Oliver_Michalik (Oliver Michalík)]

This is a common issue, the only solution now is to click “Move to background” to make the agent continue working.

This bug should already be tracked by the Cursor devs.

Terminal getting stuck, hangs, stalls forever, not displaying output in windows (auto-run agentic mode)

Describe the Bug There are a lot of related posts/bugs about terminal not working properly, but none properly describes what is happening or offer solutions. The problem: When Agentic mode is running terminal commands, sometimes it does not show output and stalls forever, preventing the agent continuing working. I do not completely know how the terminal execution works in Cursor, bu it seems like it’s often trying to re-use the previous terminal to execute additional commands. This is when thi…