@Mark_Holtzhausen the toggle that controls this lives in Cursor Settings > Agents > "Open Agents Window on startup". If you turn it off, Cursor will start straight in the Editor.
If you don’t have that toggle, it looks like a known bug. For some users, the toggle disappears after they turn it off once, and it doesn’t show up again in settings. It’s being tracked, but there’s no ETA for a fix yet.
For now, there’s a reliable workaround that doesn’t depend on the toggle. Launch Cursor from the terminal with the --classic flag:
cursor . --classic
This opens Cursor straight into the normal Editor classic IDE, without the Agents Window. You can set up an alias so you don’t have to type the flag every time.
To check your specific case, please share your version from Help > About and your OS. I want to confirm the toggle is actually missing and it’s not just not available in your build yet.
And on the main point, starting in the Agents Window by default isn’t forcing anything. There should be an option to go back to the Editor, and if you don’t have it, that’s a bug, not intended. Once there’s an update on the fix, I’ll reply in the thread.