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Community Question β€’ Apr 18, 2026

What is the difference between the 'Chat' and 'Composer' features in Cursor?

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Chris Miller
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Chat (Cmd+L) is for asking questions about code or getting snippets. Composer (Cmd+I) is much more powerfulβ€”it can actually execute file changes, create new files, and refactor code across your whole project based on a single prompt.
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Siddharth Malhotra
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Does Privacy Mode affect the quality of the code suggestions at all?
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David Chen
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I'm having some lag with large projects. Does anyone know how to optimize the indexing?
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Sneha Reddy
4 days ago

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