Cannot delete a single "No Repo" agent conversation — History UI empty, no Delete/Archive option

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Hello,

I’m unable to delete a specific agent conversation in Cursor Desktop on Windows.

What I’m trying to do
Delete one conversation that appears under “No Repo” (started without an open project folder).

What happens

The conversation does not appear in the History list (clock icon in the agent panel).
The dropdown shows “No matching agents”.
The Archived section is empty — nothing to restore or delete.
There is no trash icon, no three-dot menu, and no Delete or Archive action on hover.
I was on the Welcome screen with no project open when the chat was created.
What I already tried

Opening a project and checking History again
Checking Archived in the History dropdown
Ctrl+Shift+P → looking for chat/history-related commands
Guidance to use History → ⋮ → Delete (not available in my UI)
I do not have SQLite installed and would prefer not to manually edit state.vscdb.

Steps to Reproduce

Opening a project and checking History again
Checking Archived in the History dropdown
Ctrl+Shift+P → looking for chat/history-related commands
Guidance to use History → ⋮ → Delete (not available in my UI)

Expected Behavior

I should be able to delete (or at least permanently remove) a single conversation from the UI, including No Repo chats.

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Version: 3.17.8 (user setup)
VS Code Extension API: 1.128.0
Commit: 2fdd31c9f33f7fbe501f2d57772dc5bf64b63620
Date: 2026-08-20T02:18:12.724Z
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 10.0.22000

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

4

Hey, thanks for the detailed report. This comes down to how History works. It’s tied to where the chat was created. A conversation started from the Welcome screen with no folder open belongs to the no folder context, so it won’t show up in the project window’s History. That’s why you see an empty list with No matching agents.

Two ways to find it and remove it:

  1. In Agents view, find the chat in the sidebar under the No Repo section, then right-click it (or hover and click the archive icon on the right side of the row) and choose Archive. This will remove it from the lists.
  2. Or open a clean window with no folder (File → New Window, stay on the start screen) and check History there. The chat should show up, and you can remove it from there.

About permanent Delete, it’s not in the History UI right now by design. The main way to remove a chat is Archive.

If neither option shows Archive, please send a screenshot of what you see when you right-click the chat under No Repo. That’ll help us figure out what’s going on.