Add a dedicated “Copy” button to chat messages

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Feature request for product/service

Cursor IDE

Describe the request

I’d like to suggest adding a small dedicated Copy button directly on each chat message.

Right now, copying a message requires opening the … menu first, then choosing Copy. It works, but for heavy daily use it adds unnecessary friction.

For many developers, copying responses is one of the most repeated actions in Cursor: prompts, code snippets, terminal commands, bug reports, summaries, and implementation notes. In my workflow, most of the time I open the … menu only to copy the message.

A simple copy icon on hover would make this much faster, while keeping the existing menu for secondary actions like Fork Chat and Copy Request ID.

Suggested behavior:

Show a subtle copy icon near each message on hover.
Clicking it copies the message immediately.
Show a small “Copied” confirmation.
Keep the … menu for advanced actions.

Small change, but it would improve UX a lot for developers who copy messages many times per day.

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Seconding this - i do alot of planning with chatgpt and find myself copying quite often. The three dot menu is small and hard to see :smiley:

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Hey! Thanks for the feedback. We are working on this right now. :slight_smile:

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Thanks, Colin. I absolutely concur. That is one of the most important features to use for heavy development processes. I look forward to seeing that soon.