Initially Cursor chat would automatically open files in the editor when it created or edited them. There were requests to be able to disable this feature:
Then this behavior was removed, and there were more requests to add back in this feature, but with the option to be able to disable it:
Now Cursor chat is automatically opening files again, but there still doesn’t seem to be a way to choose whether this behavior is enabled or disabled, or at least I couldn’t find anything about it in when searching settings or documentation or the forums. Please add this as a configurable setting so that each user can chose the behavior that works best with their given workflow.