Clear All Chats And No Close All Chats?

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

This feature is very frustrating. When I am in the Cursor chat (Composer?) I often have 6+ chats open and when I am moving quickly I want to close all of these chats to clear clutter and I end up hitting ‘Clear All Chats’ when expecting the ‘Close All Chats’ functionality. This apparently empties the chat database for my entire project and I lose all context?

This is very frustrating since I’m not seeing a way to recover my chats and I always end up needing to go back to reference them.

Steps to Reproduce

Right click a chat → Clear All Chats

Expected Behavior

Close All Chats or at least show a modal warning the user all chats will be erased/trashed

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.2.14 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 1685afce45886aa5579025ac7e077fc3d4369c50
Date: 2025-12-11T01:12:35.790Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 23.2.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hey, thanks for the report. The “Clear All Chats” feature doesn’t delete your chats, it only closes all open tabs. All chats remain available in your history.

To find closed chats:

  • Click the history icon in the Agent panel
  • Or use Opt+Cmd+’

You’ll see all your past chats there. Click any of them to open it again.

I agree the name “Clear All Chats” can be unclear - it sounds like deletion. We can pass this as feedback to improve the UX.

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