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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Title: Forced relogin resets entire IDE session — lost chat context, layout, and workflow continuity

Category: Account / Session / UX

What happened: After being forced to relogin, Cursor presented a completely different IDE layout and experience. Previous chat/session context was not restored in a usable way. I had to manually figure out where I was in a multi-hour project (BlueIris) and ask the agent to reconstruct state from scratch.

Impact:

Breaks professional workflow mid-task
Wastes time and tokens re-explaining context
Feels unreliable for paid/production use
No clear recovery path (“pick up where you left off” should be default)
Expected behavior:

Relogin should preserve or clearly restore: open workspace, chat history, panel layout, and active conversation
If session can’t be restored, show explicit “Resume previous session” with last project + last chat
UI changes after auth should be explained, not sprung on the user
Environment:

OS: Windows 10 (10.0.22000)
Workspace: D:\Cursor Projects\BlueIris
Date: 2026-08-05 ~10:35 SAST
Trigger: forced relogin (reason not shown to user)
Severity: High — blocks continuity of paid agent-assisted development work

Steps to Reproduce

do you think i have the time ?

Expected Behavior

I keep on working

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

see above for more info

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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Hey there,

Your work is almost certainly still there. Chat history is saved locally and a re-login doesn’t delete it - after an update it just sometimes stops showing the old sessions in the list. (The forced sign-in itself was a brief service-side blip on Aug 5, already resolved - nothing on your end.)

To get it back:

  1. Signed into the same account, reopen the same folder (D:\Cursor Projects\BlueIris).
  2. Check both the Agents Window sidebar and the classic Editor chat history - after the layout change, old chats often show in one but not the other.
  3. Fully quit and reopen, or Ctrl+Shift+P → Developer: Reload Window.
  4. Your transcripts are on disk at %USERPROFILE%\.cursor\projects\<your-project>\agent-transcripts\. If those files exist, the history is recoverable - and please don’t delete anything under %APPDATA%\Cursor, that’s where the chats live.

To get the classic layout back: press Ctrl+Shift+N to open the Editor, and in Cursor Settings → Agents turn off “Open Agents Window on Startup” (details).

If the agent-transcripts files are there but the chats still don’t show, reply with your exact version (Help → About) and I’ll dig in.