"Summarizing chat context" lingering / weird behvaiour

[danperks]

Hey all, you can have a read of how this works below, happy to answer any queries though:

Summarizing chat context - why?

Summarising has always happening in Cursor for a very long time, but it’s only recently that we decided to actually show you when this is happening, as it can have a significant effect on your workflow. When your conversation gets longer than the context window of the model you are using, we have two choices: We cut the top off your chat, and just feed the latest messages and context into the model We tell you you’ve reached the limit and force you to start again We summarise the oldest messa…