Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug The agents sidebar doesn’t close. CMD + Shift + S, Ctl + Shift + S don’t work, and there is no sidebar icon in the UI to click as described in other help tickets Steps to Reproduce Open cursor, try to close agents sidebar Ex…

I did realize that CMD + E switches to something called “editor view” that solves my issue, but there was literally no visual cues as to how to do this, or by asking the Opus 4.5 AI how to close the menu or looking in help docs that I could find. I found the solution in another forum post

Hey, thanks for the report. You likely have the native macOS title bar enabled. The toggle button shouldn’t be there; it’s in the top-right of the workspace, under the native window controls. You’ve already found the key shortcut: Cmd+E switches to Editor view. That’s the primary way to “close” the…

Yes, CMD + E worked fine for me, but it would be nice to also see the small arrows button in the top-right corner.

Command E worked for me - there’s no Toggle at the top of the workspace for me when it’s in “Agent” layout. When in the Editor mode, I see the toggle, it looks like two arrows. But after switching, the two arrows only switch the side that it displays on - there’s no way to switch back to editor mode…

Agents Sidebar Not Closing

Support Bug Reports

brt (Albert) January 12, 2026, 4:50pm 6

I had seen Cmd + Shift + S being suggested in this thread but Cmd + Opt + S seems to be the current shortcut for me to toggle the agent sidebar on MacOS

Topic		Replies	Views
How to get rid of the agents sidebar on the left Help	4	2655	August 2, 2025
“show agents side bar” button opens a useless area and cannot be closed Bug Reports layout , agents-window	3	56	May 5, 2026
Cannot hide Agent history in 2.1 Help	2	210	December 5, 2025
Ant close editor pane when in 'Agents' vire Help	1	135	November 24, 2025
I have suddenly stopped having "Agent" and "Editor" buttons in the top right of the toolbar in cursor? Feedback java	15	2165	January 22, 2026

Agents Sidebar Not Closing

Related topics