Add "Remove Icon" / "Reset to Default" in Edit Icon for chat history items

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Feature request for product/service

Cursor IDE

Describe the request

Cursor IDE — Agents Window (Glass UI)

Describe the request

In the Agents Window sidebar (especially under Home), individual chat/agent entries can show a custom icon on the left side of the title (e.g. a circular avatar-style icon next to “Postman API call example”).

Right-clicking a chat entry exposes Edit Icon, but the picker only lets you add or change an icon. There is no way to remove an icon or reset to the default (no icon) state.

This is inconsistent with the UI itself: other chats in the same list appear without any icon, so a “no icon” default clearly exists — it’s just not reachable through Edit Icon once an icon has been set (manually or automatically).

Steps to reproduce

Open Agents Window

In the sidebar (e.g. under Home), find a chat that shows a custom icon on the left

Right-click the chat → Edit Icon

Observe that you can only select a different icon — there is no Remove, Clear, None, or Reset to default option

Expected behavior

Edit Icon should include at least one of:

Remove icon / Clear icon

Reset to default (no icon)

Or: clicking the currently selected icon again toggles it off

After removal, the chat should look like other entries that never had an icon assigned.

Why this matters

Icons may be auto-assigned when Cursor names a chat (not always user-initiated), so users may want to undo that without changing the title

When managing many chats, inconsistent icon presence adds visual noise

Rename and Archive are already supported; Remove icon is the missing counterpart for icon customization

Workarounds tried

Edit Icon — no delete/reset option

Archive — hides the chat but does not remove the icon metadata

Rename — does not affect the icon

I searched the forum and did not find an existing thread with a solution for this specific case.

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Operating System

Windows 10 (build 26200)

Cursor Version

3.17.21
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Hey, thanks for the detailed feature request. Good news, this is already done. In Edit Icon, there will be a “No icon” option that resets the chat back to the default state with no icon. So you’ll be able to remove the icon without renaming or archiving the chat.

It’s not in your version 3.17.21 yet, so that’s why you don’t see the option. It’ll ship in one of the next releases, so keep an eye on updates.

Also, you have another thread with the same request: "Edit Icon" cannot be deleted after adding an icon to a session. You can keep this one to avoid duplicates. Let me know if anything doesn’t work as expected after you update.