Chats with Agents picker “No Repo” + “This Mac” not listed in sidebar (only findable via search)

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

When the Agents Window project/environment picker is set to No Repo on This Mac (no git repo / no project folder selected), new Agent chats do not appear in the Agents sidebar history. The same chats are still findable via search. Transcripts exist on disk under ~/.cursor/projects/empty-window/agent-transcripts/.

This is specifically the No Repo / This Mac picker state — not a project workspace with a missing history index after upgrade. Related “sidebar empty after upgrade” reports are a different case; here chats are searchable and transcripts are present, but the sidebar simply does not list No Repo sessions.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Open Cursor Agents Window with the project picker showing No Repo and environment This Mac.
  2. Start a new Agent chat and send messages.
  3. Look at the Agents sidebar history list for that context.
  4. Observe the chat is missing from the sidebar.
  5. Search chat/history for the title or content — the chat appears in search results.

Expected Behavior

Chats started under No Repo / This Mac should appear in the Agents sidebar history the same way chats tied to a repo/project do.

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 3.14.7
OS: macOS 26.5.2 (Build 25F84)

Additional Information

Actual behavior: Sidebar omits these chats; search still finds them. On-disk workspace slug example: empty-window.

UI labels involved: Agents Window picker shows No Repo and This Mac.

Does not block using Cursor, but No Repo chats are hard to browse without search.

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hey there,

What you’re seeing isn’t intended behavior and it isn’t anything you misconfigured. Your chats aren’t lost, which is why search still finds them. The No Repo / This Mac grouping itself is what’s being hidden from the sidebar, so everything filed under it disappears with it.

To get those chats back within reach right now: pinned chats always show in the sidebar, regardless of this. For any chat you want handy:

  1. Find it via search and open it.
  2. Press Cmd+Shift+P and run Pin / Unpin Agent (or use Pin in the chat’s own menu).

It’ll then show up under a Pinned section at the top of the sidebar.

One thing that would help me confirm the trigger: did you ever right-click the No Repo section header (it was labeled Home in older versions) and choose Remove from Sidebar? Even once, months ago, would explain this. That choice persists across restarts and applies to every window, so it’s easy to forget.

We’ve let the team know and this is an issue we’re tracking. No timeline to share yet, but I’ll post here when there’s an update.