Hey, thanks for the detailed breakdown, especially the DB notes. That really helps clarify what’s not matching up.
What you’re seeing fits a known limitation: the Agents Window, including Remote Control on “This Mac”, and the editor agents sidebar currently sit on separate session stores. Remote Control sessions that start from web or mobile show up in the sidebar and get saved locally because they go through a separate path that writes the needed records. Sessions started or continued on “This Mac” from the Agents Window don’t use that path. That’s why there’s no entry in the sidebar, and why the transcript doesn’t end up in the local state DB.
Also, your third case, continuing on “This Mac” archives the original but doesn’t create a new local entry, looks like another part of the same local persistence issue.
Unifying these surfaces onto a shared store is something that’s being tracked, but I don’t have an ETA yet. Related threads if you want to follow along:
- Unify chat history between Agents Window and Editor sidebar
- Local IDE agent chats and the Agent CLI still use separate session stores
If you can add your Cursor version and, if you want, any extra DB details for the third case, I’ll attach it to the tracking. Let me know if any behavior differs from what I described.