I have been a heavy Codex desktop user for awhile and one of the only things holding me back from using Cursor new Agent Window is that I can’t have a project in the sidebar without having an active chat with the project. Please let me add projects that stay in the sidebar even when the last chat is archived.
Been heavily Agents window since release. It’s a great way of combining multi agents across different projects. Looking forward to multi root workspaces too. Some feedback on that:
I see in 3.2.21 now we have Setup a Workspace and Open a Workspace.
They both seem to do the same thing though which is setup. The open button used to open a workspace file, e.g. mystuff.code-workspacebut now it just tries to do the setup again.
Second, when I use the Setup a Workspace the dialog to select folders is a tiny window (on a Mac) where:
- I can’t select the folders as the window doesn’t resize and you can’t see the full path
- When you setup a workspace, is the
.code-workspacesaved somewhere?
Ah OK I found the agent window can open a workspace from a previously opened workspace in the Editor.
I don’t really mind this as I do work on multiple repos, but the capability is pretty lacking currently. I find myself more often than not just opening the editor window for each.
I have no need for anything on the marketplace, so why is that on the sidebar btw? I can’t remove it? Also, it desyncs from the editor with chats, that’s not great especially when lack of capability requires opening the editor…
Beyond that though I actually kind of like this feature. Its pretty lightweight, can start a bunch of agents up on various repos, etc, and then when you need to do more you can open up the editor window. I’ve found it to be way less annoying than opening up 3 cursor editors so far.
There’s a lot that’s odd though. Some features are only in agents window, some are only in the editor, some commands are only in the editor, some are only in the agents window, etc. I think with work though it’s a good feature for being zoomed out and just coordinating things, but it’s got a decent amount of wonkiness to it currently. I don’t want to learn two different applications. I want to use the same application two different ways/two different views.
Simple but important request: Ability to dock agent tab with other tabs like Terminal, Output etc
This simply has to be a thing, not sure how it made it out without it
Right-click file in Ctrl+G explorer → Open in integrated terminal / Run Python in terminal (reuse openInTerminal / extension commands). Agent window already has terminal (Ctrl+J); missing parity with Editor explorer.
Hey all!
Agents Window has been out for nearly two months, and at this point, it would be better for new questions/discussions to have their own thread.
Thanks for all the feedback in this thread, and all the feedback to come!