Open Cursor with the editor window active (not the agent window)

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Hey, thanks for the report. The Agents Window taking focus on startup is current experimental behavior in Cursor 3.x, not a bug.

Main thing: you’re on 3.2.11 April build, which is pretty old. Support for --classic to override this routing was added in later builds, so the flag won’t work for you. Update Cursor to the latest version, then cursor . --classic should open the editor window.

What else you can do after updating:

  • In Settings > Features, turn off Open Agents Window on startup.
  • From the Agents Window, you can open the editor via Ctrl+Shift+N Open Editor Window. Both windows can stay open, and you can switch with Alt+Tab.

More discussion and options here: Set editor as default window

If --classic still doesn’t work after updating, reply here and we’ll take a closer look.