# Please add a feature to save the composer history

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/please-add-a-feature-to-save-the-composer-history/22158>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [October 10, 2024, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/please-add-a-feature-to-save-the-composer-history/22158 "2024-10-10T14:18:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![jennyfer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@jennyfer](https://forum.cursor.com/u/jennyfer)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/please-add-a-feature-to-save-the-composer-history/22158/1 "2024-10-10T14:18:27Z")

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please add a feature to save the composer history , it is annoying to use the composer (ctrl+i) after the window closed. thank you

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**Author:** ![litecode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/litecode/32/2966_2.png) [@litecode](https://forum.cursor.com/u/litecode)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/please-add-a-feature-to-save-the-composer-history/22158/2 "2024-10-10T14:20:25Z")

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Hi @jennyfer ,

I haven’t got access to `0.42` yet, but I did read it was released a few hours ago:

[https://changelog.cursor.sh/](https://changelog.cursor.sh/)

And this is one of the changes:

> Composer history lets you access previous composer sessions after restart.

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**Author:** ![paradev](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/paradev/32/6988_2.png) [@paradev](https://forum.cursor.com/u/paradev)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/please-add-a-feature-to-save-the-composer-history/22158/3 "2024-10-10T21:48:29Z")

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Confirmed. Composer history is retained after closing and reopening the app in version 0.42. Awesome!

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/2X/d/da84d36c83d3dab09dd0e62ce6635cc133453a11.png)

When you click “Show History” it oddly says “Search files by name” when it should probably say search Composer history or something like that, however, the prior Composer sessions show up:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/2X/8/88a2edb6efeffb4948adf878cd66678e8d4e4d3f.png)