Hello Cursor Support, I always use IDE Mode, but recently Cursor has started launching in Agent Mode every time I open the application. As a result, I have to manually switch back to IDE Mode and resize/maximize the window before I can start working. This happens every time I launch Cursor. Could…

You can change a configuration setting for that: [image] Opening in Agent Mode Bug Reports Hey, thanks for the report. This is an expected change in the latest update. Cursor now opens the Agents Window on startup. To switch back to the Editor Window by defau…

Guys, I just had this exact same issue. I turn off the “open agents windows on start up” then I restart cursor, making sure that this setting is saved. Yet each time I launched cursor it still launched to the agents interface instead of the traditional IDE. This is for sure a bug. I have the latest …

This change is so bad I can see why people think its a bug not a intended change. Almost every release there are default UI changes that push the agent more and more. Its highly annoying that I keep having to research ways to put my UI/Layout back to the way I want it. This one is so egregious it ma…

This change, as well as other similar changes in the past, is just disgusting. Cursor trying to push down devs throat this agent workflow so hard while nobody was asking for that. So frustrating… As a ux designer myself, I would like to see justification UX team gave to all this interface mess …

The solution above doesn’t work. Please fix this asap. I’m allergic to the agentic stuff, and this is the main reason why I prefer cursor over claude code or codex. I believe many others are the same.

Hi, any updates on this? It is quite annoying, and I can see why people think this is on purpose.

registered and added myself here to be notified when this issue is solved, as I previously did a search on many similar topics in this forum and it’s evident the issue exists. I also don’t see the option mentioned above. Somewhere it was told that by having the IDE view and closing Cursor with Cmd +…

The same issue, I think this is a bug, since I turned off the option to open agents window. Please fix this, it is very frustrating.

This is so ridiculously frustrating. Did Musk already buy Cursor? Is that why we’re starting to see it fall apart now?

I can confirm that turning this setting to “Off” does not launch Cursor in IDE mode. I know that we can add the classic flag to the CLI command but I often open Cursor from the app icon that is pinned to my dock [image]

Cursor Always Starts in Agent Mode Instead of IDE Mode

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sgornick (Stephen Gornick) July 8, 2026, 1:28am 4

You can change a configuration setting for that:

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Cursor Always Starts in Agent Mode Instead of IDE Mode

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