Sad to see that Cursor still haven’t brought back @ tags.. like @ Web / @ link and @ Code It’s good to have an automation from the cursor when user isn’t inputting any @ tags, so that cursor can take more automatic agentic decision but IMO, it’s a stupid (and frustrating) move to remove the existi…

Hey there! [Screenshot 2026-01-06 at 10.02.59] At least for me (2.3.23), Cursor can navigate to the URL directly without searching for it. What does it look like for you? Do you have the browser tool enabled?

Also have the feeling they broke something! I had really really hard time getting Cursor to use the webbrowser and read a ■■■■■■■ github issue instead of imagine fictional problems when I asked it to review the issues online

Thanks for the reply @Colin . So this does not work with all links actually (e.g. if the links has special symbol). With @ link option earlier, Cursor was providing an explicit way to mark any url as a Link. Let me find a good example… Here, can you try this? Linux 6.19-rc4 - Linus Tor…

Hey @developerwork.org Thanks for getting back to me! At least on Nightly, the browser is doing a good job interacting with this URL. [Screenshot 2026-01-07 at 12.13.13] That said, you’re right that it’s not being recognized as a link the same way that other URLs are (which is really meant to b…

Thanks for considering this bug. It will be very helpful if this gets fixed with any latest releases. Meanwhile do we know if there is a workaround for this? Because as I have seen with few people in forums (including me) sticking to an older version of the cursor.

Hey there. As I understand it, the issue isn’t the agent can’t do anything with the link: [image] developerwork.org: But also you are right, with browser tool enabled (set to google chrome), i see this latest cursor version is able to navigate directly to the source article, w/o searching. J…

That’s not always the case. Meaning, when cursor doesn’t detect it as a URL “Link” then I still see many a times it doing a web search of the partial link. It even happens when I give it like this [URL](https-link-with-special-symbol-like-@] Even then it doesn’t “always” consider it as a link for …

Agent now can use Browser to browse the Internet. Web search tool is broken for 4 month: [image] Agent can't web search properly Bug Reports Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug Agent using web search receives a response no…

Thanks @developerwork.org ! For your information, we’re planning to ship a new agent tool soon for fetching web content, which should resolve many of these issues. I tested on an internal build with https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjO7Jq1dR7rdDA2wY=jwg4TTq-C6PjJz0=N=1dSO=3NTg@mail.gmail.com/ and …

The problem with this approach, is the probabilistic nature of the models, which results in non-deterministic behavior. They CAN directly reference the url….the question is: WILL THEY? That is the problem I have had, with the general loss of @ commands in the prompt editor. The @ commands are explic…

Cursor 2.x removes useful @ web and @ link features

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Agent now can use Browser to browse the Internet.

Web search tool is broken for 4 month:

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URL is forced to @ mode Feedback	2	225	March 4, 2024
Web search is completely broken after the latest update Bug Reports	25	909	January 16, 2026
@web dead? Major issue Help	7	301	January 24, 2025
Agent composer cursor cannot search @web Bug Reports	3	249	December 22, 2024
Cursor Agent CLI No Longer Has Access to Web Search Bug Reports cli	10	1037	November 26, 2025

Cursor 2.x removes useful @ web and @ link features

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