Feature Request: "Open in Editor" from Agents Window (Cmd+O)

[Baptiste_Lestavel]

Feature request for product/service

Cursor IDE

Describe the request

Problem
My primary workflow is in the Agents Window (Glass) — I run multiple agents in parallel and it’s great for orchestrating work. But when an agent surfaces something interesting and I need to dive deep into the code (trace a call chain, read surrounding context, set breakpoints, compare files side-by-side), I need the classic editor.

Today, switching means:

Cmd+Shift+P → “New Window” (or cursor --classic)
Manually find and re-open the chat I was looking at
Scroll to wherever I was in the conversation
Lose my mental context during the transition
This friction discourages me from going deep — I end up staying in Glass and asking the agent to explain things instead of reading the code myself, which is often slower and less effective.

Proposed Solution
Cmd+O (or a dedicated keybinding) in the Agents Window that:

Opens the classic editor window in the same workspace
Automatically opens the chat panel on the side
Scrolls the chat to the exact same position in the conversation timeline I was viewing in Glass
Ideally focuses the file(s) the agent last touched or referenced
The result: a zero-friction bridge from Glass → Editor, preserving full conversational context.

Why This Matters
Glass and the Editor are designed for different cognitive modes:

Mode Interface When
Orchestrate
Agents Window
Dispatching tasks, reviewing summaries, running parallel agents
Investigate
Classic Editor
Reading code, tracing logic, debugging, manual edits
Right now these two modes are disconnected. This feature would make them one continuous workflow — start broad in Glass, go deep in the Editor, come back to Glass. Best of both worlds.

[Colin]

Hey @Baptiste_Lestavel!

Thanks for the idea! A keybinding for this makes a lot of sense. Switching between the Agents Window and the editor hasn’t been top a priority for us so far, but we totally get why people would want it (we do it ourselves!).

Just to make sure you’ve seen it (because it’s rather hidden), have you tried right-clicking on a workspace and selecting “Open in Editor Window”?

No keybinding today, but at least this covers the first part:

@Baptiste_Lestavel

Opens the classic editor window in the same workspace

[Baptiste_Lestavel]

Thanks for the answer.
I didn’t know this option, but it does not really help. Because I am using worktree a lot. I would like to open the editor in the worktree of the chat. (So right click on the chat, not the workpace, to not have to select one in the looong list like here”