[Feature Request] Toggle Claude Code session between terminal and native UI modes

Resolved 💬 1 comment Opened May 7, 2026 by fplavecTT Closed Jun 5, 2026

Bug Description

Feature request: toggle an existing Claude Code session between terminal and native UI

The Claude Code: Use Terminal setting in the Cursor/VS Code extension controls which mode new sessions launch in, and toggling it
works fine for that. What's missing is the ability to move an existing, in-progress session between modes.

Each mode supports actions the other doesn't — for example:

  • Pasting an image is supported in the native UI but not in the terminal.
  • Exporting a transcript is supported in the terminal but not in the native UI.

Today, hitting one of these limitations mid-session means either losing the conversation context to start over in the other mode, or
doing without the action.

Requested: a command (palette entry / keybinding) like Claude Code: Move Session to Terminal and Claude Code: Move Session to Panel
that detaches the current session from its current surface and reattaches it to the other, preserving conversation history and
state.
Alternative: Support all commands in native UI

Environment: Cursor on macOS, SSH-connected to a Linux dev host.

Environment Info

  • Platform: linux
  • Terminal: cursor
  • Version: 2.1.132
  • Feedback ID: 48611c97-0232-4731-9f12-41f97cd34de3

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