More control over summarisation, ability to review and change

Feature request for product/service

Cursor IDE

Describe the request

Been using cursor intensely for at least a year. Lots of value, but I’d like more control over summarisation. At least I’d like the ability to review and correct. I recently discovered I can pro-actively kick off summarisation with /summarise, but when I’m working on code I want to be able to focus on getting my job done.

Naturally I need to learn how to use tools like Cursor in the most effective way possible, but ultimately I don’t want the extra cognitive load of keeping track of whether I’ve used up most of my context or not, or thinking about whether to start a new chat or not.

It would make sense to me that if I’m running out of context then I should be presented with summarisation options. At the moment I can’t see what the summary actually is (at least I can’t work out how to). What I’d like is the opportunity to review the summary, and the places from the previous chat that the summaries came from so that I could say, ah no, you’ve got that wrong, or ah, you’ve missed out this really critical bit of context that I think we need to keep going forward, know what I mean?

Many thanks in advance

I also note that at rest, I can’t see the proportion of the context used so far

Like below I’m in a long-ish chat, I’m coming back to it after a while - I know it was long-ish, but how long? and how many times till now has it been summarised? I have to actually send a message to discover my context usage (as far as I know) and then maybe it’s too late and auto-summarisation has happened - wouldn’t it make sense to offer the user the option to summarise one we reach a threshold, e.g. 75% and then make that an interactive process?

this is my cursor version

Version: 2.3.41 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 2ca326e0d1ce10956aea33d54c0e2d8c13c58a30
Date: 2026-01-16T19:14:00.150Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0

having chatted I can see the context used on hover, but I don’t know how many times this was previously summarised or what the summary consists of, and how accurate a reflection it is (to me) of the conversations that went before