Searchable Prompt History with Timestamps in Agent Conversations

Ideas Feature Requests
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Feature request for product/service

Cursor IDE

Describe the request

It would be helpful to have a searchable prompt history within each Agent conversation. For large tasks, scrolling through the full conversation to find an earlier instruction is extremely difficult.

Ideally, Cursor would provide a compact chronological list of user prompts with timestamps. Selecting a prompt would jump directly to that point in the conversation.

Helpful capabilities:

  • Display the timestamp for every user prompt
  • Show a compact user-prompt-only history
  • Search prompts by keyword
  • Jump directly from a history item to the corresponding conversation turn

Currently, the general Agent history and checkpoints do not make it easy to locate an earlier prompt within a long-running task.

Operating System (if it applies)

Windows 10/11

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Hey @Arin_Tahmasian, thanks for the detailed suggestion! A couple of pieces of this are available today: with the conversation focused, Ctrl+F searches the full chat (including text scrolled off screen), and Ctrl+Up / Ctrl+Down jump between your own earlier messages. Hovering near the end of a response also shows when it finished.

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A more visual, compact overview of your prompts in long conversations is something the team is actively exploring !

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Thanks @Colin, for the response. I’m aware of the Find feature, but it doesn’t completely solve the problem when you want to quickly navigate back through your previous prompts. I’m glad this is in the backlog and on the team’s radar.