Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug When the user add a chat tab in Cursor Agent frame and renames it, cursor then overwrites the user’s custom name and changes the tab name based upon the first prompt. If the user renames a chat tab, the first prompt should n…

Hi Lance! This is a confirmed bug. When you rename a chat tab and then send the first message, the auto-rename logic doesn’t account for the fact that you already set a custom name, and it overwrites it. This was also reported in this thread , and our team is aware of it. For now, the workaround i…

Thank you for the confirmation. I searched for rename, but did not find another ticket. Appologies for the duplicate.

Chat tab is renamed by first prompt when tab was previously renamed by user

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Chat tab is renamed by first prompt when tab was previously renamed by user

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