Agent doesn’t know it lacks Edit access

Describe the Bug

I regularly switch to modes like Ask where edit_tool access is denied to the model. But the model doesn’t realise this, tries to make edits and gets confused. This is frustrating because it often means the agent fails to do what I asked – for example it fails to answer the question.

Steps to Reproduce

  • open a medium-sized repo
  • ask the model to make some edits
  • Switch to Ask mode
  • use Gemini 2.5 Pro
  • ask it a question

Expected Behavior

I should just receive an answer. The model should not try to edit files.

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.2.3 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 3af362bc7c6ffdde67ee75328bc9be679d6f3a40
Date: 2025-07-10T05:03:05.318Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.2.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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