Agents Window opens focused on another workspace/thread

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

When I click the top-right Agents Window button from a Cursor Editor window opened on my cartograph WSL workspace, the standalone Agents Window opens but focuses an existing agent thread from a different repo/workspace, statusreport.

The Agents Window appears to be global across repos, but launching it from a specific Editor workspace should either select that caller workspace or make the cross-workspace behavior explicit. Focusing an unrelated repo/thread is confusing and risky because it looks like the action stayed scoped to the current repo when it did not.

Related forum thread: Cursor Agents workspace selector is unhelpful

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Open Cursor Editor on a WSL workspace, e.g. cartograph [WSL: Ubuntu].
  2. Have another repo/workspace with agent history, e.g. statusreport.
  3. In the cartograph Editor window, click the top-right “Agents Window” button.
  4. Observe that the standalone Agents Window opens focused on a statusreport agent thread instead of selecting cartograph.

Expected Behavior

Clicking “Agents Window” from an Editor workspace should open/focus the Agents Window with the caller workspace selected, or clearly indicate that the Agents Window is global and may preserve a different selected workspace/thread.

In this repro, I expected cartograph to be selected because the click originated from the cartograph Editor window.

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Version: 3.7.27 (user setup)
VS Code Extension API: 1.105.1
Commit: e48ee6102a199492b0c9964699bf011886708ba0
Date: 2026-06-10T01:46:16.942Z
Layout: editor
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
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 10.0.26200

Additional Information

running in WSL under windows.

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hi @Scott_Adams Thanks for reporting, I tried but couldn’t reproduce it. Do you want to do a quick screenshare video showing us this bug?

Scott_Adams (Scott Adams) 7

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Thank you! I think I understand now. It seems like this:

If the agents view is closed and you press the button in the Editor → It goes to Agents view on the same workspace, as you expected.

If the agents view is already open and you press the button in the Editor → It opens Agents view, but it does not switch to the same workspace, it just leaves up whichever workspace you already have open in Agents view. Is that right?

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Yes that is a good summary of what is happening.

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Ack
Regarding prioritization, we will likely focus on more pressing matters first, but we still appreciate you bringing it to our attention.