Code review specific to the agent thread

Feature request for product/service

Cursor IDE

Describe the request

With Editor Window I can see what files changed in that thread.
With Agents Window I can’t.

I propose you bring that feature/capability from Editor window because:

  • I have a personal context for each chat. E.g. one is about UI, another one is about backend. each touch different files
  • If I want to review changes and all the agent thread touched files are mixed up, is really hard to make sense of the story and decide.
  • Currently I don’t trust what the agent produces, specially on mission critical systems. I want to review and make sure it’s correct. Even when it’s correct, seeing what the thread decides helps me understand how to steer it.
  • Right now I have to go to the Editor Window to do those verification but it’s tedious.

Thanks!

Thank you for the note, @bernatfortet! We’ve received a few similar requests and have added your thread to the ticket where we’re collecting that feedback. :folded_hands:

Hi @Colin looks like now the “Review” experience in the Editor Window has regressed and it’s either missing files from touched by the thread, or showing them as already accepted/reviewed.

Now I need to go back to reviewing with a Git diff viewer which feels like a big regression.

Before with Editor Window at least I could see the changes related to the thread and have a conversation to change any issues. Now I have to manually re-craft the context by at mentioning files and even then I loose sight of the different relation/connections of files touched.

It feels like a large regressions that nudges people to blindly accept code. And I guarantee that 100% of the times there are issues with the code and/or architecture.

Regardless, thanks for all your work. Without cursor I would not have my own company. :folded_hands:

@bernatfortet, is it possible that Inline Diffs aren’t enabled? Under Cursor Settings > Agents > Applying Changes

Hi @Colin either I’m blind or I don’t have access to those settings.

Version: 3.3.4
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: e7262be617643fb2bd412dfdcca2ed82b21d0fa0
Date: 2026-05-03T00:48:29.057Z
Layout: glass
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Nightly
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 23.5.0

You’ll find this setting in the Editor window, not the Agents Window. I believe your settings screenshot is from the Agents window!

Oh sorry about that. I didn’t realize the settings would be different.

Inline diffs do work, but sometimes the changes seem to be auto approved. I’m not sure I can repro but it happens every day a couple of times.

I have exactly the same problem and it’s very inconvenient!
I want to see exactly what the Cursor agent changed in the code in the Cursor project window when the task was run in the Agents Window.

One again today many thread auto staged/approved changes. Which makes it quite hard to validate the work done by the agents is correct.

And, I guarantee, 100% of the times the agents make mistakes, introduce unnecessary complexity, introduce duplications, etc…


Here’s an example from today.

I didn’t review ANYTHING (neither agent or editor window). But all the changes where marked as reviewed.

Version: 3.4.20 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 0cf8b06883f54e26bb4f0fb8647c9500ccb43310
Date: 2026-05-15T02:26:10.351Z
Layout: editor
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.5.0