Composer hijacks focus

Bug Reports
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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Composer hijacks focus when it wants/suggest a command to run. every other part of the IDE is ‘dimmed’ and your control is basically paralyzed. WTF.

Steps to Reproduce

do something that triggers cursor agent/composer to want to run a command

Expected Behavior

the current FOCUS ( Where my cursor types new inputs and the opacity of the window) should NOT change without warning!!
What is happening now is i’ll be typing something chat or file while the agent is thinking/working - and the FOCUS changes surprisingly to the command that the agent wants to run and the command is annoyingly blinking and i cant continue / go back to what i was doing because all other parts of the IDE are dimmed/disabled.

THIS IS VERY BAD UX. Go back to how it was prior to v1.5

Plus this “focus shift” causing causes errors because all of a sudden I was typing in a different window/file, etc.

DO NOT take the focus away from the user’s control!
I need to be able to type in the chat (this was possible prior to v 1.5 release) while the agent is suggesting a command - not EVERYTHING is dimmed and you have no choice but to click (run, skip, reject) this is BAD UX.

Let the user decide what the focus is!

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.5.3 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: aece02022292184bb34fa0c899a97928489b7b70
Date: 2025-08-22T04:48:34.365Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

3 Likes
2

Hijacking focus is distracting and can be destructive. Twice I have been typing in my terminal performing other tasks when the agent steals focus to prompt for tool confirmation, timed when I hit enter. Not good.

3

Cursor has become unusable due to stealing focus every couple seconds. This started this today for me and the focus being constantly hijacked I simply am unable to leave cursor\vscode open while doing anything else. Back to regular vscode for now. Please fix this.

4

This impacts me as well and is quite disruptive and has cause many issues for me. Primarily typing in the agent prompt window and having my cursor jump over to the editor window. This does make cursor pretty unusable at the moment.

5

Hey, sorry about that. This issue has already been fixed in version 1.6, which will be released soon.

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