Feature request for product/service
Cursor IDE
Describe the request
Background
I’m an engineer / researcher. A lot of my day-to-day work involves generating charts (often with matplotlib), then polishing them for reports: notes, labels, thresholds, small layout fixes, that kind of thing.
Right now with Cursor it’s usually: ask the agent to plot → open the PNG → describe a tiny change → re-run → check again. Fine for the first draft, painful when you just want to nudge a note or fix a few words.
What I’d like
Something closer to Codex’s side panel:
- see the chart next to the chat
- drag annotations / notes / labels on the figure
- click and edit text directly
- zoom / pan while adjusting
- export the final image (or at least save positions so the script can reproduce it)
We’ve already tried local workarounds (layout JSON, Gradio sliders, a rough Tk drag demo). They help a bit, but none of them feel like editing the figure itself inside Cursor.
Why
After the first plot, most of the remaining time is layout polish, not rewriting analysis code. If Cursor had built-in “edit on the figure” for agent-generated charts, it would cut a lot of back-and-forth.
Thanks.
Operating System (if it applies)
Windows 10/11