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So at this point,
we had an extensive look at the tab

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and the inline chat feature.
But to be very honest, one of the

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main stars of Cursor is its AI Agent mode

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and this sidebar-based chat,
which you can either

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open by pressing command option B on MacOS
or control

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option B on Windows by default,
or by simply

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clicking this icon in the top right corner
to go to the

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AI pane.
And you also see the shortcut there.

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In this sidebar here,
you got an AI chatbot.

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So just as in ChatGPT or Google Gemini,
you

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can ask your questions here
and chat with the AI.

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Though, of course, this
is all optimized for interacting

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with code, for generating code,
and learning about your

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code base. Behind the scenes, there
are many features provided by

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Cursor to make sure that this AI chat
is aware of your

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overall code base. For example,
Cursor continuously

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scans and indexes your code base to have
an understanding of

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what you have in there, which functions,
what they're doing, so that this AI

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chat can quickly gather information about
the relevant parts depending on

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what you're asking for.
So whilst you could, of course, also ask

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about the weather here,
that's not really what it's meant for,

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just be wasting your Cursor usage,
so you should keep it to

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code-related tasks. Now,
you can always open a new chat by

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clicking the plus here,
and that's typically a good idea

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long conversation since context windows
are limited, and

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at some point, responses
and results can get worse

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if there's too much information in a
single chat.

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You can access your chat history here,
and mine's empty.

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I just have two empty new chats.
You can also rename your

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chats here or clear them.
You can click this button to open a

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separate Agent window,
or you use the shortcut,

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and that does what I just said.
It opens a new window

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experience for using this chat,
and I'll get back to

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that. And then, in

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addition,
you also got more options here to close a

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other chats, and so on. You can also go

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to the chat settings here,
which takes you to the Cursor settings,

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there, the chat area,
which I showed you before.

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There, you can control in
which mode the chat opens by default,

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also get back to, where it's located,
so if it's in

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that separate pane
or in a new editor window,

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around, for example,
and a couple of other things regarding how

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displayed and so on. Again,
as mentioned before, these

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options will likely change over time,
new options might be added,

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and it's a good idea to regularly check
back here and see if

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there's something you wanna tweak,
some behavior you're maybe not happy with,

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or something you wanna change to make the
chat and AI

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Agent behave a bit more the way you want
it to

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behave. Most importantly, you can,
for example, also control

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which context is considered for your
questions.

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So, for example,
whether it can automatically search the

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like that makes sense.
But I'll get back to some of the more

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important options, for example,
regarding autorun, a bit later.

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For now, let's focus on this chat
and what we can do

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there.