Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug When you press the button with arrows in the top right corner, it switches to agent mode. The button then changes from “switch agent/editor mode” to “switch agent side.” However, the same button has two different uses, which i…

CTRL E does not work as it has the same action as clicking the button mentioned in this topic.

I actually liked that for one day there were buttons on the left that said Agent and Editor (or similar). I also liked that I could have the project bar open in editor mode but yesterday it seemed that having it open in editor mode meant you also got it opened in Agent mode, just moved to the right …

I think both views still exist separately, they only removed those two buttons (no sense IMO). However on my macbook I still have those buttons, hopefully they stay.

Yes they both exist but IMO if it’s just a matter of inverting the left-right layout of the panes and you can’t actually have two different layouts/sets of open panes I don’t see the point. They might as well have made a button that was “swap agent and editor panels” which would have been better tha…

+1, still broken and confusing under macOS. but the Linux version is OK

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug There does not seem to be a way to switch back into editor mode from agent mode without having to go into the settings. The double-arrow button, which is supposedly the way to switch modes, says “Switch Agent Side” upon hoveri…

still broken on macOS, not able to switch to the normal view.

+1, I updated cursor and it kicked me to agent mode. Now I can’t switch back, the Editor and Agent mode tabs that used to be in the window bar is no longer there.

very annoying we need a fix for this :folded_hands:

Switching to agent mode / editor mode broken

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ggmartins (Gabriel Martins) December 15, 2025, 8:41pm 15

How is this still not fixed?

Can not switch to editor mode in newest version 2.2

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Switching to agent mode / editor mode broken

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