This feature is purely a UI enhancement that replaces the traditional sidebar chat with a ‘ghost chat session’ system. Instead of dedicating permanent screen space to chat, users can invoke a floating chat window that appears in the center of the editor (similar to current background agents), allowing AI interaction without sacrificing coding space.
After interaction, instead of completely disappearing, the chat context would display in a sliding, adjustable-opacity panel at the bottom of the editor showing only the latest lines with real-time updates.
This approach maximizes screen real estate for actual code, maintains conversation context without being intrusive, reduces visual clutter, and provides a more immersive development experience by keeping the chat accessible but out of the way until needed
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Just buy a wide display 
And I opened the Readme just to flex to show that you can easily fit the standard 80-120 characters per line.. And chat with an agent can be made narrower if it is not your main window of interaction with Cursor.
And UI on top of UI is inconvenient if you switch between UI frequently.
I mean, looks cool if you want to be a stay-home guy 24/7. Am I suppose to carry the monitor around the beach?
Here is a mock project just
to flex to show how I code (yes, im a key binding freak and ninja)
That 20% space on the right side would be better served as extra space for the code.
Freeing space on the editor and flexing over anyone who dares to look at your monitor.
Its not to just about look cool (its a lifestyle), it reduces visual clutter and makes development more immersive.
This is gonna matter more when I got my neuralink chip.
Jokes aside, implementing this feature in Cursor is strategic.
It positions Cursor as a true AI-integrated IDE rather than just a chat interface which is the market space AWS currently has. W kiro 80% of screen real estate are markdown files and the other 20% a chat interface - not a just a design choice but a market feature for vibecoders.
If you’ve been following Cursor, on the interview Stripe’s CEO , building a fully-featured integrated IDE requires screen space for essential tools like debuggers and previews.
Ghost chats aren’t UI design choice they will become an investment.
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Hey, thanks for the feature request, we’ll consider it.
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