Situation: i am in “Ask” mode
Task: I instruct the agent to start implementing a change / feature - it keeps going tries to edit stuff, fails, plans, does nothing … but it never seem to be aware that we are in “Ask” mode and this is the cause why it’s failing
It should give feedback: Should I switch to “Agent” mode and start implementing the plan / task / …
Steps to Reproduce
Situation: i am in “Ask” mode
Task: I instruct the agent to start implementing a change / feature - it keeps going tries to edit stuff, fails, plans, does nothing … but it never seem to be aware that we are in “Ask” mode and this is the cause why it’s failing
Expected Behavior
It should give feedback: Should I switch to “Agent” mode and start implementing the plan / task / …
Operating System
MacOS
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
Yes - please - I just again ran into this again. The agent chat (in Ask mode) very confidently says:
”I’m going to update the admin page to show a helpful fallback …”
But nothing happens … And it takes a few rounds for me as a user to realize that I am still in Ask mode from a view steps before. Also because the agent doesn’t seem to be aware of Agent / Ask mode - in previous versions at least it failed to edit - and reported back it couldn’t edit files - but this is also gone.
The latest update - where you have a green highlight of the Ask choice and submit button - IS A GREAT IMPROVEMENT - thanks
But still the agent doesn’t seem to be aware that we are in “Ask” mode
When I tell him: “Yes - go ahead an implement it” → it will happily go into all kind of tool calls and tries to change files. Instead of just give a heads up, that this is not possible
Um, actually I think it works just like it should. In Ask mode it will do changes by giving them to you. If you want it to just plan without code changes, then you can say so in your prompt. Also, if after proposal you want it to implement, just switch to Agent mode and say “implement”
What would we say about this behavior? In the screenshot, it was first in Ask mode. Then I switch it and asked it to do changes. But it said it doesn’t have the write tools. I had to stop and remind it that it is in Agent mode.
