Terminal is completely broken

Bug Reports
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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Congratulations, the terminal is now completely broken with WSL in windows. I literally cannot have an agent run a script I can trivially run in VSCode. It complains about a powershell terminal in wsl. Given I can no longer directly interact with the terminal, I can not even properly troubleshoot. Good job.

6 months ago cursor was great but it has been nothing but problems since then.

I am actively working to replace it and a friend told me my problems were fixed. Clearly, they have not been and are in fact now infinitely worse. Good job.

Steps to Reproduce

Ask cursor to run any script in wsl.

Expected Behavior

The script will run.

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.7.52 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 9675251a06b1314d50ff34b0cbe5109b78f848c0
Date: 2025-10-17T01:41:03.967Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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Hey, thanks for the report. This is a known issue: the agent’s new default terminal switches to PowerShell on Windows and ignores WSL/terminal profile settings.

Try this workaround:

  • Open Cursor settings with Ctrl + Shift + J
  • Go to Chat → Inline Editing & Terminal
  • Enable “Legacy Terminal Tool”
  • Restart Cursor
  • Run your agent scripts again

This should force the agent to use the WSL terminal profile. Let me know if it helps!

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I did that before I even created this post. It did not work.

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