# Switching to agent mode / editor mode broken

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/switching-to-agent-mode-editor-mode-broken/146055>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [December 12, 2025, 8:50am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/switching-to-agent-mode-editor-mode-broken/146055 "2025-12-12T08:50:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![alesi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/91b2a8/32.png) [@alesi](https://forum.cursor.com/u/alesi)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 1:41pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/switching-to-agent-mode-editor-mode-broken/146055/22 "2025-12-17T13:41:04Z")

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Not only this, but agent layout for some reason freezes my entire cursor window! so I had no way of using cursor … because i had no way of switching to edit mode and agent mode frozen my cursor every minute… Had to install old version … cursor guys, this is just plainly bad

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**Author:** ![chris-butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4da419/32.png) [@chris-butter](https://forum.cursor.com/u/chris-butter)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 5:33am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/switching-to-agent-mode-editor-mode-broken/146055/23 "2025-12-18T05:33:05Z")

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This is pretty clearly broken, I’m just another person reporting in that something just seems fundamentally wrong:

**In Editor Mode** pressing CMD+E switches to Agent Mode  
**In Agent Mode** pressing CMD+E moves the agent bar to the opposite side

The ONLY way to get back to Editor mode from Agent mode is opening Cursor Settings, and changing the default layout.

Cursor, please fix this! It was so good, please revert the change.

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**Author:** ![droozy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@droozy](https://forum.cursor.com/u/droozy)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2026, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/switching-to-agent-mode-editor-mode-broken/146055/24 "2026-01-05T19:07:39Z")

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Any word? Just got the latest update and it’s still broken

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**Author:** ![graham\_work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cc9497/32.png) [@graham\_work](https://forum.cursor.com/u/graham_work)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/switching-to-agent-mode-editor-mode-broken/146055/25 "2026-01-19T12:53:17Z")

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@deanrie any update? still present in current version

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/system/32/99069_2.png) [@system](https://forum.cursor.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2026, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/switching-to-agent-mode-editor-mode-broken/146055/26 "2026-02-10T12:53:34Z")

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Closed on February 10, 2026, 12:53pm UTC

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