Feature Request: Allow Manual or Programmatic Setting of Chat Tab Titles

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Hi Cursor Team,

I’d love the ability to manually set or override the chat tab title in Cursor AI chats. Currently, the tab title is auto-generated from the first message, but for my workflow, it would be extremely helpful to:

  • Set a custom title for each chat (e.g., “Session: Feature f-00008 - Playlist Sharing”)

  • Update the title as the session evolves

  • Optionally, allow the AI or a rule/memory to set the title programmatically

Why this matters:

  • Makes it easier to organize and find specific sessions

  • Improves context switching between multiple chats

  • Supports more structured workflows and documentation

Possible implementations:

  • Right-click tab > “Rename”

  • Command palette action: “Set Chat Tab Title”

  • API or config for advanced users

Thank you for considering this! Cursor is awesome and this would make it even better for power users.

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Change the Chat Name
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hi @Mark_Cline thank you for the very thoughtful and well explained feature request. Always appreciated and hope many users upvote, I added mine.

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Just updooting this. Cursor chat really needs the ability to automatically update the chat title as the conversation evolves. Often times I will use a slash command to start the conversation, but that means all my conversations have the same titles now. I don’t think team Cursor thought of occurrences like this.

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Any updates on this feature? Is it planned for development?

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THIS. It already automatically names the chat based on the initial input. Should be easy to have it simply check the rules FIRST. This simple functionality is crucial for enterprise adoption. (JIRA)