Export CursorAI conversation as rich-ish text

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Conversations with Cursor (eg the Composer tab) are useful for training and attaching audit trails to a ticket. It is currently not possible to export the entire output in a readable format, eg in a Google Doc. PDF output would be just one export format but it’s the one I would vote for.

There are several tickets for this already, some going back to September 2023. Any way to export chats with gpt in cursor?

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@gregce created SpecStory specifically as this…

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I tried SpecStory. It doesn’t work consistently for me. Plus, the output is converted to markdown so it’s missing all of the rich formatting including colored diffs. It’s better than nothing, of course. Markdown is another desired format for archiving to git, etc. and using them as context for other conversations. This needs to be a real feature.

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I agree - its spotty.

Ive been trying to figure out other methods - but it winds up \I produce a F-ton of textual output and chain_of_thought on MY walk through the Agentic flow… but I still have problems keeping an agent on context before attention-loss kills the project.

We need a way to bake the context awareness into the bot.

Or at least a way to have it load the awareness ofr the previous incantation of the bot…

Ive been trying so many methods and such and still havent found a good way.

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I am taking a differnet approach, to gamify agent attention… but I just started this experiement yesterday - so not too far along - although I have produced a very interesting model for Agentic E-Sports Coding Battles… so I am birdawlking that path todaty…

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I’m not calling this a duplicate because I’d really like to see something identical to what I see in the Cursor IDE. Markdown just doesn’t cut it. Seeing the code diffs (in colors) would be a step above the competition and since this is not a free product, I expect more.

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:wave: SpecStory founder here. Helpful to hear the feedback about the spottiness of the extension. We just released version 0.2.6 which fixes two major bugs:

  • Remote dev workspaces - WSL, devcontainers, and remote ssh folders are now supported.
  • Agent mode - it now outputs more details from Agent mode composer sessions, like code and commands. There’s still more we want to do here, including showing the code diffs, the command outputs, and the linting results.

Instructions for installing the latest are in the docs.

@SoMaCoSF and @terris-citizen if you get a chance to try it again, let me know what you think. We’re working to keep improving it.

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jakelevirne I tried the latest SpecStory. It works great!

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Great new, @terris-citizen ! Keep me posted if you hit any snags or have any feedback. We’re constantly working to improve it.

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