I believe that the potential of custom modes is to be used in sequence and combined, but sometimes we need 2 different modes to work on a single step of a task and we need to choose between one of them to be able to use other modes in other steps
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Thanks for the feedback about custom modes! You make a really good point about needing multiple modes for different steps of the same task. I’ll make sure to pass this along to the team about increasing the limit beyond 5
For now, you might want to check out some example modes in our docs (Cursor – Custom Modes) to help optimize your current limit - there might be ways to combine some functionality into fewer modes depending on your workflow
The team is always looking to improve the custom modes feature, so this kind of feedback is super helpful
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Yeah, I was also thinking about combining two modes into one, so you could use a single mode at two different points in a task. If it’s something simpler and similar, like a ‘Refactor’ or ‘Debug’ mode, maybe a combined prompt for both could work well. But, in my experience, when you’re using more complex and specific modes one after the other, it makes the response more accurate, faster, and more powerful. I really think this was a great addition in the V.49 features.
And thank you very much for the feedback and attention, your work is amazing!
Hello there. Yeah, I found the Roo’s implementation is quite nice.
- Instead of CTRL+I to go to Agent mode, I like Roo’s feature to cycle them instead
- I also like how with Roo, I can just edit a JSON to create and edit the mode. I found Cursor’s implementation annoying for wanting to experiment different pre-prompt and setting
@joaopf Hmm coming from Roo side, I do think being very very very specific gets you better quality and robust code, so I found it better to separate Refactor and Debug
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Just wanted to throw support behind this. This would be incredibly powerful, and the arbitrary limit of 5 is just bizarre.
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yeah, like on Roo, I actually add some non-coding alike mode too, like research assistant where it handles my .tex or go to MCP and find me info. Would be nice that I can integrate that workflow here on Cursor
I was just adding custom modes when I realized we can only add 3 modes. I wanted to use the SPARC methodology like I do in roocode, even if I have to change modes manually (copy and paste the output and select the next agent) but with only 3 modes its imposible… please increase the limit and allow automatic change between agents. Thanks in advance!!
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Only 5 custom mode is too limited, i think custom mode is a good feature to separate many mcp servers into a smaller sub set, so that is can be more sutable for certain programing language.
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Yeah, please add more. This arbitrary limit does not make any sense to me. And you even have a search functionality so there is no real UX reason to limit this
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Big big +1
I just discovered the workflow where each custom mode is its own GPT, which is quickly making cursor my everything app. Please bump the limit in a big way!
@danperks The addition of Background in 1.0 decreases number of custom modes from 5 to 4. Can be worked around though by disabling background in Beta settings, adding 5th custom mode, and then re-enabling background
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100%
latest version on my side and I can add only 4… and yes I scrolled down 
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nice bypass bro