Feature request: allow me to kill currently executing bash commands

[carterworks]

I asked it to evaluate the quality of some tests in a PR. It decided to run the full test suite, which takes 15 minutes to complete.

Please give me a way to kill the currently executing command without exiting completely out of opencode. It's a good way from stopping the agent from doing something that would take a long time.

Cursor allows for this. Claude Code does not.

[github-actions]

This issue might be a duplicate of or closely related to existing issues. Please check:

• Feature Request: Add Background Bash Execution (Like Claude Code’s Ctrl+b) #1970: Feature Request: Add Background Bash Execution (Like Claude Code's Ctrl+b) - Similar request for managing long-running bash commands with reference to Claude Code's Ctrl+b feature
• TUI becomes unresponsive upon running a non-terminating process such as a web server #682: TUI becomes unresponsive upon running a non-terminating process such as a web server - Reports same problem where ESC doesn't work to interrupt long-running processes
• ESC isn't interupting anything #848: ESC isn't interupting anything - Reports that ESC key doesn't interrupt bash commands at all
• interrupt sometimes has no effect #684: interrupt sometimes has no effect - Reports unreliable interruption of running commands
• bash tool often times out #1721: bash tool often times out - Related to long-running bash commands, though focuses on timeout rather than manual interruption

Feel free to ignore if none of these address your specific case, but #1970 appears to be requesting very similar functionality.

[rekram1-node]

agreed, the double esc should make bash stop just like it does for llm response

[rekram1-node]

Wait, @carterworks does the double esc not work for you? I can tell llm to run bash commands and then if I double esc it will abort it properly:

[carterworks]

It does! TIL

[vasilvestre]

Maybe it's due to TUI but it doesn't seem to work anymore.

[rekram1-node]

Hm definitely works for me, mind sharing your keybinds?

What terminal are u using?

[vasilvestre]

Oh ok I got the original issue wrong.

When you use someting like !npm update, you can't kill the process. (! is to run a "native" bash command)

[rekram1-node]

@vasilvestre that should work too, if it isnt mind telling me are you on windows?

[vasilvestre]

@vasilvestre that should work too, if it isnt mind telling me are you on windows?

I tried it today and it's working... if it happens again, I will check why. It happened on a makefile running docker compose command which is a lot of TTY interaction. Thank you !