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Side Chats and Conversation Search

This release makes it easier to stay in flow with side chats that run alongside your main chat, the ability to search agent transcripts, and simplified project and repo pickers. Side chats Open a side chat to ask questions, explore ideas, and investigate tangents without interrupting your main agent conversation. Use `/side`, `/btw`, or the plus button at the top of the chat panel to create a new side chat that has context from the main chat. Each side chat is a durable, full agent conversation that you can follow up on, revisit later, and at-mention to pull context back into the main thread. By default, side chats focus on reading, searching, and answering. Use them to ask clarification questions, research alternatives without committing to a pivot, and sanity-check a decision while the main agent continues running. Conversation search Find past agent chats faster with search results that go beyond names and PR numbers. In the Agents Window , you can search agent transcripts from the command palette (Cmd+K). Cursor builds a local search index that scales search to thousands of conversations with snappy performance. …

Announced

10 Jul 2026 00:00 UTC