Feature Request: Add Text Quoting in Agent Chat (like WhatsApp/Telegram)

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Feature request for product/service

Cursor IDE

Describe the request

Hi Cursor Team,

I’d like to request a feature that would significantly improve the chat experience with the AI agent: the ability to quote selected text from the chat, similar to how WhatsApp and Telegram work.

Use Case:
I often ask the agent to outline the steps it plans to take before executing a task. This helps me verify that it understood the requirements and will implement what I need. When corrections are needed, I frequently need to reference specific parts from previous messages—both from the agent and from my own messages. Currently, I have to manually copy and paste text, which is inefficient and error-prone.

Proposed Solution:
Add a quote/reply feature that allows users to:

  • Select any text from the chat (from both agent and user messages)
  • Quote the selected text with a single action
  • Preserve Markdown formatting in quoted text
  • Insert the quote into the input field for easy reference

This would work similarly to the quote functionality in WhatsApp and Telegram, where you can select text and quickly quote it in your reply.

Benefits:

  • Faster and more precise communication
  • Better context preservation during iterative refinement
  • Smoother collaborative workflow with the agent
  • Reduced copy-paste errors
  • Improved ability to reference specific parts of previous conversations

I believe this feature would be valuable for all Cursor users, not just those working on complex tasks. It’s a standard feature in modern messaging applications, and having it in Cursor would make the interaction with the AI agent much more intuitive and efficient.

Thank you for considering this feature!

Operating System (if it applies)

Windows 10/11
MacOS
Linux

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I agree with that feature, it would be very useful, like it already is in many other platforms.

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Agreed, this is the one feature that some LLMs have that I really appreciate. Especially when I ask a multi-part question and I am given a long response, it makes it a lot easier when I can specify which part of the response I am confused about or I want to learn more about when I send my follow up prompt without having to copy and paste, or write out in text what I am confused about.

This would substantially improve follow-up questions, especially after long or multi-part responses.

Proposed workflow: highlight text in an assistant response, then choose Add to chat as quote from the context menu or use a configurable shortcut. Cursor already supports adding selected code, terminal output, and other IDE context, so applying the same interaction to chat responses would feel natural.

This would let users reference an exact statement without copying it manually or describing its location. A same-conversation implementation alone would already be extremely useful; cross-chat quoting could follow later.

Please consider prioritizing this feature. Thanks.