Brand-new chat still shows old unrelated agents

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

If a brand-new plan in a brand-new chat still shows old unrelated agents,

Steps to Reproduce

Create a paln, stop it in middle because of change in the product direction. The plan never got created but cursor still keep on displaying the old plan at the bottom of other paln.

Expected Behavior

This should not happen at all. if the plan is not been created, that there is no reason to show it.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Version: 3.7.27 (user setup)
VS Code Extension API: 1.105.1
Commit: e48ee6102a199492b0c9964699bf011886708ba0
Date: 2026-06-10T01:46:16.942Z
Layout: editor
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
xterm.js: 6.1.0-beta.256
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22621

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

Hey, thanks for the report. I see the screenshot. In the plan footer, under “Referenced by 3 Agents”, there are two empty “New Chat” entries next to the real agent.

What’s happening: when you create a new agent/chat under a plan (or start a build), it gets registered in that plan’s “Referenced by Agents” list right away, even before you send the first message. If you then leave that chat empty, its row stays in the list as “New Chat”. This is cosmetic only. It doesn’t affect the plan or how things work, and no data is lost.

Workaround: delete those empty “New Chat” agents from your chat/agents history. The references list only shows existing composers, so after deletion they’ll disappear from the plan footer.

This is a bug on our side, I’ve filed it internally. No ETA for a fix yet. Related reports about “stuck” plan references are here: Agent stuck referencing stale, completed plans and here: Stale Plan Suggestions Persist After Plan File Deletion. Let me know if the workaround helped.