What happened to Past Chats?

Describe the Bug

I no longer see it at all. It just disappeared at some point and it does not seem to be mentioned in the latest docs. have not seen any mention of it or other users complain which makes this even more confusing

Steps to Reproduce

Open cursro
Try “@Past Chats”

Expected Behavior

I would see a list of past chats that i can reference

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.1.17 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 6757269838ae9ac4caaa2be13f396fdfbcf1f9a0
Date: 2025-11-21T08:55:17.983Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.1.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

Hey, thanks for the report.

@Past Chats was intentionally removed in Cursor 2.0 along with several other @-context items. The Agent can no longer directly use past chats as context.

Workaround: export the chat to markdown and add it as context:

  • Open the chat you want to reference.
  • Click the menu (three dots) → Export Chat.
  • Save it as a markdown file in your project.
  • Use @Files to reference the exported chat in new conversations.

This gives you the same functionality, because the Agent can read the full conversation history from the markdown file.

Let me know if this approach works for you!

Why don’t you add back the old @ feature: past chat, git, web?

Thanks for the follow-up question.

As I mentioned earlier, removing @Past Chats, @Web, @Git and other manual context controls was an intentional decision in Cursor 2.0, which shifted toward automatic context gathering focused on the Agent workflow.

We’ve received a lot of feedback from the community from users who want these features back: Removed context options from Cursor 2.0

The team is aware of this feedback about manual context control.

I also found this deeply confusing and frustrating. I submitted it as feedback in the app but that’s more for our own false consolation I guess.

I think the way you guys removed this feature was amateur-ish.

instead of deprecating it, you just removed it entirely from the new docs causing confusion since your old docs include it and that is still scrap-able by Google where as the new page just returns a 404.

But all good, now i know it’s not just me being crazy but you actually just deleted the feature :+1:

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Exactly this is so frustating personally i loved old cursor way more then new one all the control I had is taken away in cursor 2.0 which makes the accuracy even worse idk who was that guy who took the decision to remove git and past chats feature

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