Why cursor command no longer open file/directory?

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Previously, I used the cursor command in the terminal to open files or directories, both on my local macOS and on Remote SSH Linux. This always worked. But now the cursor command has been replaced by another feature, seemingly Cursor Agent. Now when I run the cursor command, it prompts:

$ cursor ./xxx.py 
cursor-agent not found, installing via https://cursor.com/install ...

Can you please stop arbitrarily changing user habits? At least ask for my permission before replacing this feature.

Now, I’d like to ask, how can I restore the cursor command to open files or directories?

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Hey, thanks for the report. Which version of Cursor are you using?

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Hello, thank you for listening. My Cursor related information is as follows:

版本: 1.6.26 (Universal)
提交: 1.99.3
日期: 6af2d906e8ca91654dd7c4224a73ef17900ad730
Electron: 2025-09-16T17:12:31.697Z
ElectronBuildId: 34.5.8
Chromium: undefined
Node.js: 132.0.6834.210
V8: 20.19.1
OS: 13.2.152.41-electron.0

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I have the same problem, my cursor version as follows:
版本: 1.6.27 (user setup)
提交: 1.99.3
日期: d750e54bba5cffada6d7b3d18e5688ba5e944ad0
Electron: 2025-09-17T20:21:17.042Z
ElectronBuildId: 34.5.8
Chromium: undefined
Node.js: 132.0.6834.210
V8: 20.19.1
OS: 13.2.152.41-electron.0

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Hi, once cursor-agent installation finishes, does it allow you to open files through the cursor command?

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It doesn’t for me. I’m assuming the cursor-agent install is silently failing.

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Hi,

First, it didn’t complete the installation on its own. I tried waiting for 1-2 minutes, but it just got stuck here.

Second, after seeing your reply, I manually installed cursor cli using the `curl Cursor CLI | Cursor - The AI Code Editor -fsS | bash` command.

Now the cursor command can indeed help me open files, but it has become very sluggish. I need to wait 1~2 seconds to see the file editor open in Cursor.

BTW, I don’t need the cursor cli tool at all, the slow down is an unwarranted disaster for me.

9

Any feedback? Now every time I use the cursor command to open a file, I have to wait 2-3 seconds. Why is this wasting my time?

10

My goodness, this couldn’t possibly be deliberately done to increase the installation volume of the Cursor agent, could it?

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Is there any solution? I don’t want to install cursor agent on every of my servers.

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Hey, try using cursor editor . instead of cursor .

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Thanks, this worked.

BTW, I reinstalled cursor with version 1.7, now just use cursor command is ok.

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This new bug is a pain. I found that I can still use open [filename] to open the file in cursor on macos (as long as cursor is the default app for the extension)

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cursor editor . is not opening Cursor, I am running the command in both cursor terminal on SSH remote and local WSL terminal, neither environment works

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