Archive All caused all Agent chats to disappear from the Agents sidebar

[Chih-Yu_Cheng]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Where does the bug appear?
Cursor IDE (Agents Window)

Describe the bug

I accidentally clicked “Archive All” from the new Agents sidebar.

Immediately afterward:

• My repository (xbuil) is still present.
• The Agents sidebar now shows “No agents yet.”
• None of my previous agent chats appear.
• Search also cannot find any of my previous agent chats.

I understand from multiple Cursor forum posts that:

• Archiving should not delete chats.
• Archived chats should be recoverable.
• There are known sidebar/indexing bugs.

My case seems different because all chats disappeared immediately after clicking “Archive All”, and search no longer finds them.

What I have already checked:

• Cloud Agents dashboard
• Cursor Settings
• Search
• Repository is still present
• Restarting Cursor

None of these restored the chats.

Could someone please check:

1. Whether my agent chats still exist on the server.
2. Whether they were all marked as archived.
3. Whether my account’s agent index needs to be rebuilt (reindex).
4. Whether there is any way to restore all archived chats.

I’m using the latest Glass Agents interface.

Thank you very much.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open Cursor (latest Glass Agents interface).
2. Open the Agents sidebar.
3. Click the “…” menu.
4. Click “Archive All”.
5. Immediately afterward, the repository still exists, but the sidebar shows “No agents yet.”
6. Previous agent chats disappear and search cannot find them anymore.

Expected Behavior

Clicking “Archive All” should only archive chats, not make all agent chats disappear. Archived chats should remain recoverable, and the sidebar or Archived filter should allow them to be restored.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Version: 3.14.7 (user setup)
VS Code Extension API: 1.128.0
Commit: a758f2241ca99fecf380180b6cbdbbce0f1f42c0
Date: 2026-07-30T06:41:34.009Z
Layout: Agent Window
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 40.10.3
Chromium: 144.0.7559.236
Node.js: 24.15.0
V8: 14.4.258.32-electron.0
xterm.js: 6.1.0-beta.291
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

[kevinn (Kevin Neilson)]

Hi @Chih-Yu_Cheng Thanks for the post! I understand how alarming an empty sidebar looks.

Nothing has been deleted. “Archive All” only marks chats as archived, and that flag is reversible. Your conversations are still stored locally on your machine. The sidebar hides archived chats by default, which is why it currently reads “No agents yet”.

Here’s how to get them back:

1. In the Agents sidebar, click the filter icon at the right of the “Repositories” header (the small funnel next to the folder icon). Its tooltip reads “Customize Sidebar”, and Ctrl+Alt+F opens it too.

2. Under “Filters”, click “Archived”. The sidebar switches to showing only your archived chats.

   

3. Hover any chat row and click the circular arrow button (“Unarchive”), or right-click the row and choose “Unarchive”.

4. When you’re done, click “Archived” again to turn the filter off.

For next time: right after a bulk archive, a notification appears with an “Undo all” button that restores the whole batch in one click.

On your four questions: these chats live locally on your machine rather than on our servers, so there’s nothing to recover or reindex server-side (that’s also why the Cloud Agents dashboard was empty, since it only lists cloud agent runs). They were all simply marked as archived, and the steps above will restore them. Let us know any follow-up questions!