Describe the Bug i ask for the agent to do something. it runs a tool. the tool outputs an error. the agent never notices. i have to either move to background, or i have to spend a request to talk to the agent and move it up in priority above the wasted task. Steps to Reproduce i ask for the agent t…

[image] Cursor getting stuck in terminal Bug Reports You can click in it and interrupt it (Ctrl+C on Win11) or press Enter (1-3 times). I use PowerShell 7.5.2

i can but that’s not a solution to have to constantly do that. anything with a certain amount of output seems to be a problem [image]

and still happens with latest powershell [image]

as you can see it has nothing to do with the amount of response content so it’s not like a ‘more’ or shell interactivity required situation. looks like it’s just the ide chat not recognizing that the command has returned a result.

through a lot of discussion with claude 3.5 systematically trying varying commands with varying output formats and lengths, i figured out it was kubectl command and the PAGER env variable. i set my environment variable PAGER to cat in windows user level environment variables. this let’s the entire …

PAGER didn’t solve it for every situation. i have some video that shows the issue. basically, every now and then (not always, seemingly no apparent reason) powershell script will complete ‘show prompt’ but cursor won’t recognize that it’s finished and my only options are to ‘cancel it’ or to ‘move…

[image] still having this problem

i am still having the problem. now in the latest update i don’t even have the option to ‘move to background’ it just hangs and does nothing. [cursor you frozen bud]

Tool calling never finishes

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Artemonim (Artemonim) July 5, 2025, 6:53pm 2

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Tool calling never finishes

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