It reopens automatically each time I switch IDE windows and restart. I do not need this feature at all. You keep promoting the Agents Window, yet I believe most users use Cursor primarily because of its IDE functionality. I hope the official team will not put the cart before the horse.
Hey, thanks for the feedback. This behavior is fully configurable, so you can bring back the old flow.
Go to Cursor Settings > General > Startup > Window Restoration and select Last Used Windows. Then open your project in the editor and close Cursor from there. On the next launch, it should restore the previous session directly in the IDE, with the last project and your chat history.
A couple extra options if you prefer:
- The IDE ^ button in the top right switches to the classic VS Code view.
- Launch from terminal:
cursor <path-to-project> --classicopens the classic IDE view right away.
Make sure you’re on a recent version 3.13+ since older builds had startup issues.
About the default Agents Window behavior, I passed it to the team as feedback. Let me know if this brought your chat history back.