Cursor's Default AI Chat Window Opens Automatically for New Projects - Need Toggle Option

Feature Requests
1

I use Cursor daily and it’s driving me nuts that the AI Chat window automatically opens for EVERY new project.

This is annoying because I don’t always want or need the chat when starting work. Sometimes I just want to run a script.

Dev team - please add a simple setting to disable this behavior. Something like: “Automatically open AI Chat window for new projects: [ON/OFF]”

This small change would make Cursor much less frustrating for regular users.
Please be a good editor before trying to be a AI editor. Windsurf does this too, it force opens chat window and the window loads for 20 secs.

This is just slop.

Thanks.

1 Like
2

It didn’t happen before. It is really frustrating for sure.

3

+1
Please can we add this change. Super annoying to have to close it manually every time.

4

Any update on this?

5

+1 looking for a solution for this too

6

Hey, thanks everyone for your interest in this feature, we’ll consider it.

7

it’s been 4 months and no update. I’ve had enough, I made a stupid extension for now, but it worked:

const vscode = require('vscode');

function activate(context) {
  vscode.commands.executeCommand('composer.closeComposerTab');
}

function deactivate() { }

module.exports = {
  activate,
  deactivate
}

please implement the functionality @cursor..

8

Any update on this? A very annoying thing