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title: "Full-screen Tabs and Compact Chats"
description: "This release introduces quality-of-life improvements to the Agents Window, centered on full-screen work areas and more compact agent conversations. Full screen expands files, changes, canvases, PRs, browsers, or terminals across the right panel, replaces chat with a floating prompt bar, and is available through the panel control, command palette, or Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+M. Compact chats offer Compact, Balanced, and Detailed tool-call density settings, ranging from concise results with minimal traces to near-complete step-by-step context. The release also improves PR review visibility, scrolling, streaming, context persistence, MCP authentication, model selection, search, and task status, while fixing reliability issues across PRs, background and cloud agents, MCP/OAuth, shortcuts, hooks, model routing, webhooks, and mirrored repositories."
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# Full-screen Tabs and Compact Chats

[Cursor](https://yomu.fyi/company/cursor) · May 13, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

This release introduces quality-of-life improvements to the Agents Window, centered on full-screen work areas and more compact agent conversations. Full screen expands files, changes, canvases, PRs, browsers, or terminals across the right panel, replaces chat with a floating prompt bar, and is available through the panel control, command palette, or Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+M. Compact chats offer Compact, Balanced, and Detailed tool-call density settings, ranging from concise results with minimal traces to near-complete step-by-step context. The release also improves PR review visibility, scrolling, streaming, context persistence, MCP authentication, model selection, search, and task status, while fixing reliability issues across PRs, background and cloud agents, MCP/OAuth, shortcuts, hooks, model routing, webhooks, and mirrored repositories.

## Context

The release focuses on Agents Window usability, including full-screen tabs, compact chat presentation, tool-call density controls, and broader improvements to navigation, task status, authentication, model selection, and workspace behavior.

## Approach / What changed

The changes add a full-screen mode controlled from the panel header, command palette, or Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+M; replace the agent chat with a floating prompt bar in that mode; and provide Compact, Balanced, and Detailed tool-call density settings. Additional implementation changes improve PR tabs, scrolling, streaming, persistence, authentication, routing, search, and reliability across background tasks, cloud agents, and integrations.

## Takeaways

- Full-screen mode lets files, changes, canvases, PRs, browsers, and terminals fill the working area while moving agent input into a floating prompt bar.
- Compact chat responses provide three tool-call density levels: minimal traces, important intermediate steps, or near-complete step-by-step context.
- Bug fixes address reliability across PR tabs, background and cloud agents, MCP/OAuth tokens, keyboard handling, model routing, webhooks, and mirrored repositories.

## FAQ

### How can full-screen mode be entered or exited?

Use the expand or contract button in the panel header, select the command palette action, or press Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+M. In full screen, the agent chat is replaced by a floating prompt bar.

### What does tool-call density change in compact chats?

Compact shows concise results with minimal tool traces, Balanced includes important intermediate steps, and Detailed provides near-complete step-by-step context. The setting controls how much of the agent’s tool activity appears in each response.

### What reliability issues were fixed in this release?

Fixes cover background-task resume failures, interrupt edge cases, cloud-agent setup, state persistence, MCP/OAuth transient 401 and stale-token cases, model-routing mismatches, webhook authentication, and mirrored-repository behavior.

**Tags:** [AI Agents](https://yomu.fyi/topic/ai-agents), [MCP](https://yomu.fyi/topic/mcp), [Model Routing](https://yomu.fyi/topic/model-routing), [Search](https://yomu.fyi/topic/search)

- Source: [Cursor](https://cursor.com/changelog/3-4)
- Source URL: https://cursor.com/changelog/3-4
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-09-19T10:36:06.823Z

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