We had it before that when you loaded cursor IDE it would load into agent mode and lots of us moaned we didn’t want that way, and it worked again by going straight into IDE / Current project and everything worked great again.
Now we are here again where open cursor IDE and goes straight to agents window, I hate the agents window and now I have to open cursor, even opening saved workspace, opens agent window, I have to then click IDE, close the agents window, click open workspace and its just tedious when it worked fine, if this carries on ill just find an alternative to cursor with just the IDE or even build my own using llm’s
Steps to Reproduce
I have to open cursor, even opening saved workspace, opens agent window, I have to then click IDE, close the agents window, click open workspace
Hey, this isn’t a bug, it’s a changed default behavior. In recent versions, Cursor opens the Agents Window on a cold start when there’s no project to restore. To make it start straight in the IDE again:
Cursor Settings, find Open Agents Window on Startup.
Set it to Off.
After that, Cursor will open your last project in the Editor on launch again.
To switch to the Editor right now, use the arrow button in the top right of the Agents Window, or Ctrl+Shift+N (Cmd+Shift+N on macOS), or Command Palette > Open Editor Window.
One more detail: if you close Cursor with a project window open, it should restore next time. The Agents Window mainly shows up on a cold start when there’s nothing to restore. So turning that toggle Off is the most reliable fix.
If you don’t see the setting or it doesn’t stay Off after a restart, tell me your version and share a screenshot, and I’ll take a look.