You’ve added a sidebar management button for Agents, but where’s my ability to push a button and make the chat sidebar go away too? Screenshot shows the agent sidebar management button next to the green window miniturization button, with the chat pane under it. Pushing that button adds the agent sidebar, but there’s no UX to remove the chat pane. Instead I have to go into the “…” menu and click Hide Chats. Consistency in the UX would be nice, so users aren’t searching for hidden UX elements … perhaps just make the left and right sidebar buttons cycle through agent, agent+chat, chat, and nothing?
Hey, thanks for the feedback! The chat collapse button was intentionally removed in Cursor 2.3 in favor of customizable layouts.
Current ways to hide or show the chat panel:
Keyboard shortcut: CMD+ALT+B (toggles the chat panel)
Via layouts: click the gear icon (top right) and pick the layout you want
If you want to use the Agent sidebar instead of the full-screen composer: switch to the Editor layout via the gear icon, then press CMD+I to toggle the Agent sidebar
Your request about UX consistency is very valid. I’d recommend adding your feedback to the main layout/UI megathread here: [Megathread] Cursor layout and UI feedback The team is actively collecting UI improvement ideas there.
Hi @deanrie, thank you for confirming that the team is aware of this change.
IMO, this is not the case. I tried customizing the layouts, but the toggles don’t persist. For example, customizing the Editor layout causes the Editor view selection to unselect. Then, if I switch to a different view and switch back, the Editor view goes back to the default (not customized).
I just need to be able to close the whole chat+agents sidebar when I’m not using it, please.
Completely agree with OP @aathan I also dont like the swapping of the Secondary sidebar to Agent rather than Chat, as it was before. And the new customizations would be fine IF I could re-add Chat as the replacement Secondary sidebar option, rather only as a keybinding or starting a new chat; I should be able to add it as first-class. I’ll comment in the other doc @deanrie linked to.
