Toxic Autoscrolling

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

When an agent is working and I’ve expanded the “thought for x seconds” to read what they thought about, anytime the agent produces another line, it snaps to the bottom. I eventually realized I had to select-copy all the text in that pane and paste into a separate editor to actually read it. Annoying, but work around possible.

As of today, I’m having the same behavior when reading any output, even when the agent is finished. I scroll up to review the latest output and as soon as I release the trackpad, it auto-snaps to the bottom so I can only read the last paragraph or so of output. I updated and it did not fix the issue

Steps to Reproduce

scroll up in a chat

Expected Behavior

auto scroll when I haven’t scrolled up, but pause auto-scroll when I’ve scrolled up manually. Or allow me to disable auto-scroll entirely

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 3.9.16
VS Code Extension API: 1.105.1
Commit: 042b3c1a4c53f2c3808067f519fbfc67b72cad80
Date: 2026-06-27T06:41:01.941Z
Layout: glass
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 40.10.3
Chromium: 144.0.7559.236
Node.js: 24.15.0
V8: 14.4.258.32-electron.0
xterm.js: 6.1.0-beta.256
OS: Darwin arm64 25.3.0

For AI issues: which model did you use?

n/a (Opus)

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

Hey @Jeff_Lisciandrello!

I haven’t been able to reproduce this (snapping to the bottom when the chat is idle). Does it persist after a restart (either a full restart, or Cmd + Shift + P > Reload Window? Does it happen in every chat?

Agreed, this is is annoying.