I’m really impressed with Cursor 3—it feels like a significant step forward. Great work, team!
I have a workflow question: is there a way to switch branches directly within the new Agent view? Currently, I have to jump to the terminal or editor to change branches, which breaks the flow. It would be a huge quality-of-life improvement to handle this without losing context.
Additionally, it would be great to select a target branch when initializing a new local agent, similar to how it’s handled in the Codex app.
Am I overlooking an existing feature, or do you have any suggestions on how to best adapt my workflow to this new interface?
My workflow is focused on one project with multiple active branches, not multiple separate projects. I want to be able to switch branches quickly and keep different agents running against different branches, whether through worktrees, local setups, or cloud environments.
Right now, having to leave the Agent view to change branches breaks flow. I’d much rather see branch-level management inside a single project, with all branches visible in the sidebar and the ability to attach agents to each one independently.
That would make it much easier to handle real-world work like continuing a long feature while also shipping a quick fix to dev or juggling multiple parallel branches.
Hi @milosz_bednarzak We’re thrilled you’re getting familiar with the new Agents Window in Cursor 3.
Regarding branch selection ease in this view, this is currently in progress so expect updates on this front soon. It is definitely an important piece of the puzzle. Right now, the best option is to start a new chat and select the appropriate branch.
Right now, the best option is to start a new chat and select the appropriate branch.
I don’t think that’s possible right now.
I can’t currently select a branch when creating a new agent. My only options are to check out the branch manually in terminal before starting, or use a worktree and have the agent switch via prompting.
What I want is to be able to pick the branch when creating the chat/agent in the first place. And beyond that, I’d still love to see branch-level navigation in the sidebar for a selected repo, with separate chats attached to each branch.
This would improve my efficiency a bunch!
Agree. Even by starting a new agent, there’s no way to choose a branch. So by pressing the Create PR button, we can’t know what branch it’ll commit changes to.
Also, please consider switching branches for submodules. UI should give this option too.
Yes, I’d love this. Similar to Codex where it has a drop down on the bottom right below the chat text area of starting a new agent. Meanwhile, my workaround has been to add it into all my plans to let cursor know to create a fresh branch off of origin/master which keeps me out of terminal, but still suboptimal.
Totally agree if you could just make the current branch info text to dropdown the same way we have a dropdown for the workspace selector it would be perfect
I would also like to +1 this, I am going to need to downgrade to Cursor 2 as I need to point my agents to specific branches, and it appears the ability to run Cloud agents in the sidebar of the editor has been removed.
Just to be clear on this: the Agents Window in Cursor 3.1.15 will always create new local agents on the same branch that the last agent was on. So the least bad flows right now are either to:
use the terminal every time to switch to main and pull upstream
remind the agent every time to do this itself (otherwise it’ll make a mess)
only use cloud agents (which are interesting but have their own limitations right now)
don’t use the Agents window
Mostly commenting in hope of getting a notification when this is fixed, because it makes it hard to make good use of the Agents Window.
The branch selector for the Agents Window has been addressed and the fix should be available on the nightly release channel. If you’d like to try it out before it hits stable: open Cursor Settings > About and switch the Release Track to Nightly, then restart Cursor. Let me know if that resolves it!
Hi. I tested it and looks fine now with list of branches but it would be nice if it were possible to create a new branch when we enter its name and no matching branch is found in the search field.
Spend about an half hour looking for this before I realized it isn’t there (for me).
Agent view - existing chat: There is no branch switcher in the panel header or below the chat bar. The branch label only shows a copy button on hover - it copies the name, it doesn’t let you switch.
In editor view - it lets you even to create a new one.
New chat: A branch picker does appear when starting a new agent, tied to the selected repo/workspace.
Submodule workflow: I work with submodules (root repo + submodule repo), so I often need to switch two branches in the same workspace. That makes the missing in-chat branch switcher especially painful.
Would love branch switching on active chats, with submodule support, not only at new-chat creation.
but it would be nice if it were possible to create a new branch when we enter its name and no matching branch is found in the search field.