Voice input missing in Agents window until you type

Feature request for product/service

Cursor IDE

Describe the request

Hey love the new Agents Window! Just have a small request to make it even more useful

In the Editor Window, voice input works great — there’s a microphone icon and a keyboard shortcut to trigger it. In the new Agents Window, the experience is different in two ways that feel like bugs:

  1. Microphone icon is hidden until you type

When the agent is working, the input box shows “Send follow-up” with no microphone button visible. You have to type until you get a line break before the mic icon appears.

  1. No keyboard shortcut for voice input

The keyboard shortcut that triggers voice input in the Editor Window doesn’t work in the Agents Window at all — even after the mic icon becomes visible.

Both of these make it harder to use voice input as a primary way to interact with agents, which is otherwise a really natural fit for the conversational back-and-forth!

Expected behavior:

Mic icon should always be visible in the input box, regardless of whether text has been typed
The voice input keyboard shortcut should work in the agents window the same way it does in the editor

Screenshot / Screen Recording

Hey Robin!

Thanks for the ~voice~ input!

Our next release will contain an improvement for this, and you’ll be able to use Ctrl+M (⌃M on macOS) to activate Voice Input at any time. It’s coming out soon so keep an eye out!

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that’s awesome thanks for the quick feedback!