Right sidebar (Chat) can no longer be resized to its previous minimum width after latest update

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

After the latest update, the right sidebar (where I have the Chat panel) can no longer be resized as narrow as it could last week. The minimum width threshold appears to have increased, preventing me from comfortably having two editor columns open side by side.

This was not an issue prior to the most recent update.

I recorded a Loom video demonstrating the problem:

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Place the Chat panel in the right sidebar
  2. Attempt to drag the sidebar border to reduce its width
  3. Observe that the sidebar stops at a wider minimum width than it did before the latest update

Expected Behavior

The sidebar should be resizable to the same minimum width as before the update, so that two editor columns remain usable alongside the chat panel.

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 2.7.0-pre.140.patch.0
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: ccfa72ce1f439af527c44b009c67fb94169b1100
Date: 2026-03-26T01:58:51.913Z (19 hrs ago)
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Nightly
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0
Release Track: Dev

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

Hey, thanks for the report and the video.

This is an intentional change in the latest nightly. We increased the minimum width of the right sidebar to prevent horizontal scrolling of the chat tabs when the panel is narrow.

I get that this is inconvenient for a two-editor-column workflow. You can create a feature request to add a configurable minimum sidebar width, or to lower the default minimum width.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Great, thank you for the response @deanrie

I already created the feature request:

I’ll see what I can do here. Want to keep this as flexible as possible

Reasoning here was there was some chat ui that broke at very small width and it was easier to just give it a min width than optimize for very small width

Hey @msfeldstein, totally understandable — taking the pragmatic route makes sense. Just to add some context from my end, though: my editor font size is 12px, and my print width is 80 characters. Before this change, I had the sidebar at roughly half the current minimum width and never ran into horizontal scrolling issues in the agent chat.

Hmm the min width jumped from 300 to 400 so if you actually had it half the size something else is up

Hmmm, try setting the font-size to 12px and the print width to 80 characters to see how it looks for you at 300px sidebar width.

BTW, My computer is a MacBook Pro M4 16’’

Hi @msfeldstein, just passing by to see if there are any updates on this issue or anything I can do to help the team resolve it?

coming

Issue fixed, thank you.