Terminal startup hangs often with agent

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Describe the Bug

Running short-lived terminal commands as the agent may hang with, “Starting terminal”.

Steps to Reproduce

Provide agent with instructions that lead it to issue terminal commands that you would expect to run quickly, such as renaming (e.g. mv path/to/file path/to/newfile).

Expected Behaviour

Terminal starts and execution completes in a timely fashion.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → Abount Cursor → Copy)

Version: 0.43.5
VSCode Version: 1.93.1
Commit: 2eaa79a1b14ccff5d1c78a2c358a08be16a8e5a0
Date: 2024-11-27T09:11:51.854Z
Electron: 30.5.1
Chromium: 124.0.6367.243
Node.js: 20.16.0
V8: 12.4.254.20-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 22.6.0

Additional Infomation

I’ve attempted to rule out system load by closing all other applications other than cursor, running only one terminal and clearing my zsh* related shell profiles. I’m using zsh. Only one terminal is open to run my node.js app with ‘npm run dev’. I can manually work around the issue very easily as shown in the screenshot. I use claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022 exclusively.

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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