Cursor is overwriting chat titles that I manually assign. I deliberately give chats meaningful names (for example the feature or task I’m working on) so I can easily return to them later. After some time, Cursor replaces my chosen title with an automatically generated one.
Steps to Reproduce
Create a new chat in Cursor.
Manually rename the chat to something meaningful.
Prompt the chat.
After prompting, Cursor replaces the manually assigned title with a new automatically generated title.
Expected Behavior
If a user manually renames a chat, that title should remain unchanged unless the user edits it again.
Operating System
Windows 10/11
Version Information
Cursor 2.6.19
For AI issues: which model did you use?
Any
Additional Information
This makes it harder to locate past conversations and disrupts workflows that rely on naming chats according to features or tasks. Manually naming chats is important for organizing work across multiple tasks. Overwriting user-provided titles defeats the purpose of allowing manual naming.
Hey, thanks for the report. This is a confirmed bug. When you send the first message in a chat, the auto-rename logic doesn’t account for the fact that the user already set a name manually, and it overwrites it.
I’ve shared this with the team. For now, the workaround is to rename the chat after sending the first message. Auto-rename only triggers on the first message.
When the user add a chat tab in Cursor Agent frame and renames it, cursor then overwrites the user’s custom name and changes the tab name based upon the first prompt.
If the user renames a chat tab, the first prompt should not overwrite the title of the chat tab.
Steps to Reproduce
Create “New Chat” tab. I use the “+” on the top right of the Agent frame.
Rename the tab. I do RMB and select “Rename Chat”
Enter a prompt such as “When I add a New Chat tab in Cursor’s Agent frame and rename it, cursor then overwrites my rename when I submit the first prompt. This feels like a bug.”
The result is the tab is now named “Cursor chat tab renaming bug”