# Manually activating context summarization

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/manually-activating-context-summarization/131707>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [August 22, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/manually-activating-context-summarization/131707 "2025-08-22T23:13:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Artemonim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/artemonim/32/56113_2.png) [@Artemonim](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Artemonim)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/manually-activating-context-summarization/131707/1 "2025-08-22T23:13:56Z")

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### Feature request for product/service

Chat

### Describe the request

Sometimes it’s better to have a long conversation and rely on Cursor context optimization algorithms than to start a new chat and engage in context engineering.

It would be great to have an option to force activation of chat summarization, as is currently done with the `Web` Search, in order to compress the context when the Chat operator considers it acceptable, and not only then when it gets flooded.

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**Author:** ![daisukeadachi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/daisukeadachi/32/40934_2.png) [@daisukeadachi](https://forum.cursor.com/u/daisukeadachi)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 6:08am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/manually-activating-context-summarization/131707/2 "2025-09-02T06:08:56Z")

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Agreed. I tried to export chat to markdown and let the agent read it, but it tend to be too long a document to read, no help.

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**Author:** ![Artemonim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/artemonim/32/56113_2.png) [@Artemonim](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Artemonim)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 7:03am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/manually-activating-context-summarization/131707/3 "2025-09-02T07:03:42Z")

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Vote for it 😎

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**Author:** ![daisukeadachi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/daisukeadachi/32/40934_2.png) [@daisukeadachi](https://forum.cursor.com/u/daisukeadachi)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/manually-activating-context-summarization/131707/4 "2025-09-02T07:31:25Z")

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Ha, there is a voting button. I pressed. I’m new here and didn’t know it. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Artemonim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/artemonim/32/56113_2.png) [@Artemonim](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Artemonim)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2025, 12:28am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/manually-activating-context-summarization/131707/5 "2025-09-22T00:28:06Z")

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Already implemented as `/Summarize`

```auto
{your_prompt}
/Summarize

```