I love the cursor agent. It is great at doing research. It is good at making changes. Sometimes changes need lots of research before we settle on a design.
I’d love to be able to toggle do not change anything, sort of like a brake lever I could toggle. Currently about 1 in 10 of my prompts start with DO NOT CHANGE ANY CODE.
Hey, you have an Ask mode for this. Use it if you just need to chat with the model and switch to the Agent when you’re ready to edit code.
Oh, it looks like Ask mode indeed has limited tool access now, e.g. grep. I had been avoiding Ask mode since it previously appeared unable to use tools, whereas Agent mode has full tool use.