yea its terrible at knowing when to call its tools. You can usually edit your previous message and add something like “use your tools and edit the files” or “use your cli tool to run the command”
and re-run it.
I say edit the file because I get the sense that if you leave the “bad” responses in history it can get stuck unable to edit.
even that sometimes doesnt work… but i found another trick that seems a lot more stable. EVERY TIME you write a message, the last line you can say “use your tools and edit the files like you did before” assuming you got it to work at least initially.
Same issue here. I imagine this is an issue with how tool invocation is set up. would make sense for cursor to fix asap as I, like probably most of us, am having to make 2-3 calls before the change is actually applied, which is likely costly on the backend
Yeah o3-mini can be a bit flaky with tool calls sometimes. The best fix is to start a fresh composer window when this happens. You can also try explicitly telling it to “use tools” or “edit the file” in your prompt, but starting fresh usually works better
If you need more reliable tool usage, Claude 3 Sonnet or GPT-4 are probably better options, they’re just a bit more expensive