Sorry about that, I jumped the gun! I’m on a nightly release build, and this is not yet available on the public build. It should make its way there soon, sometime next week I think.
It sounds like it makes sense for you to move the majority of your work over the Agents window! This is great to hear 
Editor experience is still a principal focus, we want to support a variety of ways in which users work.
Thoughts on this one? Merge editor view & chat as optional configuration - #5 by hmeng
@kevinn From my first experience with Cursor 3.x and the replies by many other users here, the problem seems to be that v3 automatically launches the new UI after the user upgrades/installs it.
There is no clear indication anywhere to switch to the IDE mode. It feels like you’re completely blind sighted as a user. I did find there is a menu item to switch back, but it’s not obvious as Cursor v2 had most of these toggles and switches right there in the UI.
Give people a choice to select their UX upon first launch after upgrade/install and put the toggles in the new UI too.
In my time I have done technical and customer support. If you want a lot of user complaints, change the UX without telling any one, explanation, or obvious way to control it. Always works 
To toot my own horn, ever since I upgraded to QA, I’ve been able to prevent these kind of disasters and save the current support team a lot of headaches
You posted that the IDE is still the main focus, but that is not how it comes across for a user when you switch the default to the Agent UX. It actually, even if unintentional, signals to users that the platform is moving away from IDE.
@kevinn Love the changes! Especially because my current dev role requires me to switch between contexts so much and the agent view on the left is so much better than the previous history only search.
BUT - i need to work with ubuntu wsl2 on my windows machine and as soon as I open my project with cursor . from the wsl console, and want to work with the agent view, it prompts me that the wsl extension is missing and needs to be installed and resarted. I did install, and after restarting it’s always the same. The agents won’t connect and hence no AI interaction at all is possible in the new agent window.
In the classical window with the same setup. everything works as expected
would love to use the agent window again
Create a separate thread and Cursor team would note it.
@kevinn How can i reference the plan that is automatically saved under my global cursor settings?
It does not appear when i start typing @myplan
thx
Yes if we could individually select the models/orchestrate the swarm properly
Overall, my experience with Cursor 3 is positive. I really like that we are breaking from the older VS Code UI language, it was in need of an update imo. Would love to see that product wide.
I just tested this out in Agents View by creating a plan and then going to a new chat and trying to reference the name of that plan. It didn’t show up with the name of the plan file but if I reference the name of the chat where I made the plan, that was recognized and worked great. So if your chat to create the plan is named “Planning Sesh” you can say in a new chat go build the plan I created in “Planning Sesh” and it will read the transcript and find the plan automatically.
Hi @Julian_Hahn, Thanks for the post! We’re working on WSL support in the Agents view. I don’t have a timeline to share, but it’s getting attention. In the meantime, you can use the IDE view for that purpose; it works fine. The classic Editor Window has full WSL support.
We’re trying to strike a balance between nudging users to try out ways of working while maintaining the pathways that you’re familiar with. What this kind of looks like in practice can be a few things:
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Starting with a small banner in the lower right-hand corner that pops up asking if you want to try the new Agents view.
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If that is dismissed, you might find that Agents View opens unprompted one time when you open Cursor. However, you’re not forced to use it, and your preferences are remembered. So if you switch back to IDE view and exit Cursor while in the IDE view, it will re-open in the IDE view. If you close Cursor from the Agents view, it will re-open from the Agents view.
We’re not trying to force anyone into a particular way of working, but we are nudging you to try new features.
Check out this post: WSL in Agents Window (glass) WORKS!
I tried it myself briefly, and it seems fine. Lmk if you have any issues.
It is a disaster!! I try all my best to disable it but I can not find a way to disable agents window. My cursor was frozen since I upgraded to 3.0.16, and no answer yet provided since I reported the bug. I try to disable Agents Window to see whether it helps, and Cursor doesn’t provide a mechanism to switch back to old way!
Also, whenever I close Agents window, it will close my main editor window. it’s really a bad design
Hi @Ron I’m sorry about the frustrating experience. Can you try upgrading Cursor to 3.1.x please?
You can switch back to the Editor View by going to File → Open Editor View. Cursor will remember the last window you closed before quitting the App, so if you want to reopen in the IDE Editor view, make sure that you close that window last.
I apologize for the frustration. We’re not trying to force anyone onto a particular way of working.
Hey @kevinn
Flutter debug on real device (iphone) does not work in 3.1.15 mac, it runs tests instead 
Unusable, going back to 2.6.22
Also still broken: Cursor 3: Agents Window - #118 by leoing
(I gave up on real bug reports a long time ago, since nobody cares)
multi-root workspaces in Agents window is the main reason I’m still heavy relying in the IDE view. Will be a killing feature and unique selling point bringing it in the Agents window!
We’re working on it! Thx for the positive cheer.
When using the Agents Window, I’m unable to highlight text from the terminal and “Add to Chat” like I can when using the Editor Window. I was troubleshooting something earlier and this caused me to have to switch back to Editor Window. Overall, I like the Agents Window, but I’m not seeing any advantage of using it over Editor Window currently, as it does seem like there are some gaps between the two. Are there advantages to the Agents Window that I’m missing, because right now it basically seems the same as Editor to me but with less features.
Hi, I’ve been using the Agents Window and have two feature requests related to project navigation:
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Project name (NOT Agent name) filtering in the sidebar
The current search bar finds agents by chat title, but there’s no way to filter by project name. When managing many projects, I’d love a way to quickly show only agents belonging to a specific
project — for example, via Ctrl+F to filter by project name. -
Show folder path on right-click
When the workspace folder is deep in a directory tree, it’s hard to know which project belongs to
which folder hierarchy. It would be helpful if right-clicking a project in the sidebar showed
the full folder path (e.g. as a tooltip or popup).
Both of these would make it much easier to manage agents across many projects. Would love to see
these on the roadmap!