Allow the AI to change the Chat Tab Name

Feature request for product/service

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Describe the request

When I open several chat tabs, each with similar ideas but not the same, it would be great if I could direct the AI to change the name of the chat tab. The cursor engine already changes the name, so why couldn’t I direct the AI to also change the name?

I start a new thread / chat with a standard structure.

Task name, Rule (.cursorrules file to follow), Context, Request, Specific Instructions for output
I’m aware some of this should be in .cursorrrules but I have had cases where my cursorrules are not followed unless explicitly asked to be followed.

The point in this discussion is that I would like to also specify what the chat thread should be named (usually my task names have a Jira issue key in the name).

Specifying this in my chat structure or in the .cursorrules file would help organize and find my threads. Currently the AI names the chat thread often (seemingly) based on the first prompt which is not enough context to provide a good enough name based on the journey followed through the prompt.

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I tested having the AI name the chat thread. It returns a response saying it can’t name chats, but the name is what I asked for :slight_smile: although likely to have been simple enough

This is exactly the response I received when I tried to do this. And yeah, setting the task name to the Jira issue key is exactly what I am trying to do as well.

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Specifically I would like a user rule (or cursor rule) that dictates how to name chats and has access to things like git status.

Would like my chats to be named:

TICKET-XXX: Chat thread topic.
Example: TYDEV-723: Knowledge sharing feature.

where ticket-XXX is actually our branch name that we pull in from picking up linear tickets.

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And to be clear I also tested whether the agent in chat has access to rename, and it does not - this would be a potential additional skill / tool to give it.