1 min lesson
Live in the Agents window, drop to the editor for last-mile edits
Walk through each part of "Live in the Agents window, drop to the editor for last-mile edits", then explain what each one does.
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Live in the Agents window, drop to the editor for last-mile editsthe layout that signals real usage
Cursor put the agent at the center of the editing experience. The Agents window keeps agent chat front and center, chat history on the left and the codebase on the right - deliberately close to the ChatGPT/Claude feel a PM already knows. The classic editor layout (code center, files left, terminal bottom) is one toggle away via the small arrow in the top-right.
Which layout, when
- Agents window
- Default home for prompting, large chunks of work and running several agents at once
- Editor layout
- Drop here for targeted last-mile edits - tweaking the exact Markdown or line the agent just wrote
- The rule
- Anything you can do in the editor you can do in the Agents window; switch only when you need to hand-edit a specific file
Knowing the toggle exists - and when to use each - reads as real usage, not a changelog skim.