At times I want to discuss a fix or feature before starting to actually implement it.
But the agent is very keen to work 
The agent starts to produce code immediately and I have to go back etc.
Would be nice with a small checkbox to discuss a feature and actively telling the agent to hold off a little bit.
Good god do I agree with this!!!
Far too often I just ask a question, as opposed to giving an instruction or making a request, and it just goes and starts editing perfectly fine code.
You can just instruct it not to make changes in your prompt.
True.
But it takes time to write that all the time.
”Do not edit anything yet, just discuss”.
Similar to CTRL C+CTRL V in terminal before that was automated.
It works to do it manually but slows down process.
Absolutely! This would be very helpful, I often just want it to come up with a solution I can implement, or ideas, but it’s very strongly biased to writing code. Which I guess makes sense for most scenarios, but it would be handy to turn it off.
At the moment the best solution for this is to use the chat but we are looking at this area at the moment so you may see some changes soon!
Whenever I just need to “discuss” something, I tell it “let’s brainstorm”.
I give it some ideas, some plans for a feature I might want to add, and I tell it, “let’s brainstorm, what are your thoughts?”
That short sentence quite literally just took me 4-5 seconds to type 
If the time it takes you to type a short phrase slows down your process, then maybe install some sort of clipboard manager. I have short phrases, paragraphs, snippets, and favorite emojis I can quickly “copy/paste” anywhere. I hit a keybind/shortcut, quick search, and paste. Only takes a few seconds.
I do this sometimes when I want to quickly map out the problem a bit with the agent before execution.
(if it’s not quick, then I’ll make a plan in Chat and save the result to a .md file to reference in Composer).
I’ve had success just taking on this message at the end:
IMPORTANT: We are just discussing changes and not actually making any changes to any files. Do not edit any files unless I explicitly ask you to do so.