Agent Chat History UI Issues

[Nate_Tritt]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

I updated to 2.6.11 yesterday. Now when using the chat pane I do not see the “history” pane anymore. when hovering over the little icon that how has the past chats, I am unable to click them to re-open old conversations. How do I get open these older chats.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open the Agent Chat Pane
2. Hover over the History Icon to show previous coversations
3. Click one of the past conversations
4. Nothing happens

Expected Behavior

Old chat conversation open

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 2.6.11 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 8c95649f251a168cc4bb34c89531fae7db4bd990
Date: 2026-03-03T18:57:48.001Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.6.0
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.0
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.3.0

Additional Information

Please stop changing your short cuts for these different user flows and UI views. Its throwing me off so much in my day to day. At this point I’m about to stop updating Cursor, since everyday update my old keyboard shortcuts get removed.

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

[Colin]

Hey there!

Thank you for the report, and I apologize for the inconvenience.

We’re discussing a related regression in this thread:

Regression Chat history UI in 2.6: can't delete, rename, see current selected agent chat

by the way @msfeldstein @Colin just throwing an idea, not sure of the feasability how easy/hard it is. On the long run, wouldn’t it be easier and better to replace the floating chat history UI by a floating Agent pane UI? It would reduce the burden of maintaining different UIs for the same thing for Cursor engineers. The agent pane is nice but accessing it, is more cumbersome (without shortcut) when in editor mode. The floating UI advantage is that it preserves the width of the screen, only …

Specifically, we’re investigating the issue with clicking on old chats not working.

In the meantime, you can access your old chats by switching to Agent mode (instead of Editor) and opening the sidebar.

[Colin]

Hey @Nate_Tritt!

This should have gotten all fixed up in 2.6.13, and latest stable version is 2.6.21. Please let us know if you’re still experiencing any issues with chat history!