Cursor July 10, 2026 Changelog

This update is all about keeping you in your "flow state"—that zone where you are coding smoothly without getting distracted. It matters to anyone using Cursor to build projects, especially if you rely on AI agents (smart AI assistants that can perform multi-step tasks) to help you write and debug code. By making it easier to multitask with the AI, find old conversations, and manage your project files, this release helps you get things done with fewer interruptions.

What's new

• Side Chats: Think of this like opening a side tab. If your main AI agent is busy writing a big feature, you can start a "side chat" (using /side or /btw) to ask a quick question or research an alternative idea. These side chats remember the context of your main project, and you can jump back into them later.
• Conversation Search: You can now search through all your past AI conversations using a quick keyboard shortcut (Cmd+K). It is incredibly fast because it indexes everything locally on your computer. You can also search inside a single long chat using Cmd+F to find specific words and jump between matches.
• In-Picker Project Setup: When choosing a project or repository (a folder where your code is stored, often called a "repo"), you can now connect to services like GitHub or create new projects directly inside the selection menu, instead of being redirected to a different screen.
• Cloud Agent Hooks: For advanced users, Cursor added new "hooks." These let developers monitor and control exactly what a cloud-based AI agent is doing—like seeing its "thoughts," stopping it, or guiding its next steps to help it self-correct.

Improvements

• Organized Repo Picker: Your code folders are now neatly grouped into "No Repo," "On This Computer," and "Cloud."
• Smart Branch Picker: When switching code branches, the menu now shows your default and recent branches first, rather than a giant, confusing list.
• Clearer "Run On" Options: A new menu makes it easy to choose exactly where your AI agent should run (like on your own computer, in the cloud, or on a remote server).
• No More "Home" Confusion: The vague "Home" option is gone. If you aren't working in a specific repository, it now clearly says "No Repo" (which you can find just by typing "none").
• One-Click Clean Up: You can now remove old projects from your "Recents" list with a single click.
• Visual Upgrades: Search bars are now at the top of menus, section dividers are clearer, and cloud-stored folders now have helpful little cloud badges.

Breaking changes

No breaking changes in this release.