Cursor released version 3.11 on July 10, 2026, adding side chats, conversation search backed by a local index, redesigned project and repo pickers, and three cloud agent hooks.
Side chats are durable, parallel agent conversations. Type /side or /btw in the main chat to branch off, and the side chat inherits context from the main conversation, so you can chase a tangent or ask a follow-up question without derailing the task you already have running.
Conversation search is backed by a local index that Cursor says scales to thousands of conversations (vendor-reported). If you have a long history of agent sessions, you can now search your transcripts instead of scrolling back through them. The project and repo pickers were also redesigned in this release.
Cloud agents gain three hooks: beforeSubmitPrompt, afterAgentResponse, and afterAgentThought. As the names indicate, they fire before a prompt is submitted, after the agent responds, and after an agent thought, giving you defined points to attach your own logic to a cloud agent run.
Source: Cursor official announcement, 2026-07-10
