I absolutely love the ability to move Composer to its own window outside of Cursor. I also love this ability for Chat as well. After using this for a few days, it is hard to come back to either in the sidebar. But, I find myself wanting to use Chat in the same window as Composer. I feel the same about Review as well. Having all of these AI tools in a single AI Tooling window provides the best of both worlds of the legacy “chat with the Claude website where there is a lot of UI room” workflow and the modern “allow AI responses to directly mutate your code” workflow… it is so nice, so pleasing, the best UX I have experienced by far.
Yet, Composer is focused in nature, as is Chat and Review. To prevent having multiple AI Tooling windows, I keep Chat and Review docked (Review must currently be docked anyway). After using Composer, when I return to Chat and Review, I lose the amazing UX of a larger more flexible AI tooling window, even one that I can tuck behind my main editor at times. It feels like an honest downgrade from the rich flow I’m enjoying with Composer in a separate window.
I really did try to also use chat into its own window as well, but it makes for too many AI Tooling windows outside the editor. A much more practical approach for multiple windows is to have a single window for AI Tooling, and another for the editor. This approximates the feel of working with other AI tools (in the browser, for example) but retains all the advantages of integration.
So the ask is this: allow the tabbed sidebar itself to be popped out to its own window. Then I can enjoy a larger footprint for all the major AI tools, something that feels similar to the browser → IDE workflow, in a good way, while still having access to quick inline popovers for smaller discussions or edits.
The more we move toward deeper, agentic-style editing, the more useful a larger UI surface becomes for iterative development with AI. What you’ve done with Cursor is miraculous, I look forward to where you take it from here.