Timestamp for Chat Messages & Tool Calls

Ideas Feature Requests
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Timestamps in the chat messages and tool calls. Sometimes I’m working on multiple projects at the same time, and so when I come back to what Cursor is doing, I notice that it’s been working on the same file for a long time, but I don’t actually know how long.

Every once in a while, especially ever since Claude 4 Sonic came out, it gets stuck in these weird loops—working on one file for 5 to 10 minutes—and I don’t even notice it, because I’m working on other projects at the same time.

So it’d be great to see the timestamp of when it started that tool call so that I know if it’s been a minute or two, it’s definitely stuck in a loop, and I can try to kick it out of the loop with some prompts.

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Agent and message timestamp
2

Agree this would be nice!
Seems like a dupe of Please mention timestamp in chats - #3 by Malcolm-B-Breaks

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3

I really need this for my projects. I want to rollback to a specific state of my code that I know I had yesterday but I can’t remember where my prompts started yesterday and having a datetime stamp seems like such a simple update that would solve my issue.

4

I would love this! Timestamps in the agent would be immensely helpful and useful.

5

Helpful! +1

6

It would be great if we could see the time when Cursor or the user writes in the chat to be able to go back in the history when troubleshooting.

7

That and the model (or Auto) that generated the response.

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8

+1 these are both great suggestions.

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9

It’s such a basic thing, and adds so much value in managing historic chats. Agents really need this.

10

BIG BUMP on this

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11

I’ve needed this at least half a dozen times and keep looking for it.
This would be such a nice quality of life improvement.