Cursor Chat Viewer

Browse, search, and export your Cursor AI chat history — fully local, no login required.

Why?

Cursor's built-in chat history is unreliable — it often fails to load. Your conversations are stored locally as JSONL files, but there's no easy way to access them.

Cursor Chat Viewer reads these files directly, giving you instant access to all your chat history across every project.

Features

• Browse all chats — Organized by project in a sidebar tree view
• Full-text search — Search across all projects with AND logic and exact phrase matching
• View conversations — Rich webview with syntax highlighting and in-chat search
• Export to Markdown — Single chat or bulk export
• Export to ZIP — Export all chats from a project or everything at once
• Instant startup — Cache-based loading, no waiting
• Auto-refresh — Detects new chats automatically
• 100% local — No cloud, no login, no data leaves your machine

Search Syntax

Usage

1. Install the extension
2. Click the Cursor Chats icon in the activity bar (left sidebar)
3. Browse your chat history by project
4. Click a chat to view, right-click to export

Supported Platforms

• macOS
• Windows
• Linux

How It Works

Cursor stores chat transcripts at ~/.cursor/projects/*/agent-transcripts/*/*.jsonl. This extension reads those files directly — no API calls, no network access.

Privacy

This extension is completely offline. It reads local files and writes local exports. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.