Agents sidebar empty — 222 transcripts still on disk (Windows)

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Agents panel only shows the current session. Clearing “Search Agents…” and restarting Cursor didn’t help.

Data is NOT deleted — 222 agent sessions still exist at:
C:\Users\Administrator.cursor\projects\f-DeepSeek-TUI-desktop\agent-transcripts\

Project: F:\DeepSeek-TUI-desktop | OS: Windows 10 | Cursor:
Version: 3.7.21 (system setup)
VS Code Extension API: 1.105.1
Commit: 517f696d8ab6c53eb04fbfdaae705cd146bf3460
Date: 2026-06-07T21:46:09.237Z
Layout: editor
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Nightly
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
xterm.js: 6.1.0-beta.256
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045

Looks like UI/index desync, not user data loss. Any way to rebuild the sidebar list from local transcripts?

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just ask cursor or deepseek to import it back into the workspace, it should then detect the transcript and show them again in the left panel

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Your read on this is correct, and your data is safe. The Agents sidebar is built from a session index in your workspace storage, not directly from the transcript files on disk. When that index falls out of sync (most often after an update), the panel can show only the current session even though all 222 transcripts are still intact.

A few things worth knowing:

  • There’s currently no built-in way to rebuild the sidebar from the on-disk transcript files. Opening or referencing a transcript will let you read its contents, but it won’t re-add the session to the sidebar, so those past sessions will stay missing from the panel for now.
  • You haven’t lost anything. You can open the .jsonl files in that agent-transcripts folder directly to read any past conversation.

This is a known issue we’re tracking, and restoring the session list from local transcripts (rather than just keeping the files on disk) is exactly the gap we’re aware of. I don’t have an ETA to share yet, but I’ll update this thread when there’s progress.

One thing that would help: did this start right after a Cursor update, or after moving/renaming the project folder or switching profiles? That tells us whether it’s the indexing issue we’re already tracking or something setup-specific we can help with directly.