# Cursor is No longer editing the code base itself? **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [January 4, 2025, 1:03pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-no-longer-editing-the-code-base-itself/39114 "2025-01-04T13:03:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eroxx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/eroxx/32/18485_2.png) [@Eroxx](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Eroxx)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 1:03pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-no-longer-editing-the-code-base-itself/39114/1 "2025-01-04T13:03:25Z")
Hi! I’ve been trying cursor and loving it. Not sure if I messed with a setting or something, but now when it looks at code and edits, it’s not changing anything within the code base itself (as it was previously). Can someone explain? Thank you!!! ---
**Author:** ![mudislandkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@mudislandkid](https://forum.cursor.com/u/mudislandkid)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 1:19pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-no-longer-editing-the-code-base-itself/39114/2 "2025-01-04T13:19:45Z")
Just checking that you’ve not done what I sometimes do and you start chatting in Chat mode rather than Composer? Because chat mode will require you to apply the changes, and you won’t see any ‘live editing’ on your file. Composer mode will make the changes directly to the file. Can you confirm which mode you’re using? ---
**Author:** ![Eroxx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/eroxx/32/18485_2.png) [@Eroxx](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Eroxx)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-no-longer-editing-the-code-base-itself/39114/3 "2025-01-04T13:32:36Z")
Yeah it’s composer. FWIW it’s the free version, but I didn’t get an alert that that particular thing won’t work any more (I will be subscribing) ---
**Author:** ![mudislandkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@mudislandkid](https://forum.cursor.com/u/mudislandkid)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 1:57pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-no-longer-editing-the-code-base-itself/39114/4 "2025-01-04T13:57:42Z")
Interesting…which model are you using? Have you done the old ‘switch it off and on again’? (restart cursor 😛 ) ---
**Author:** ![Eroxx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/eroxx/32/18485_2.png) [@Eroxx](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Eroxx)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-no-longer-editing-the-code-base-itself/39114/5 "2025-01-04T14:03:47Z")
4o mini lol I did. The thing is, I still see the “apply”button for code it creates, but it’s no longer changing it within the main code base window. ---
**Author:** ![mudislandkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@mudislandkid](https://forum.cursor.com/u/mudislandkid)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-no-longer-editing-the-code-base-itself/39114/6 "2025-01-04T14:22:27Z")
Hmm, sorry the only time I’ve seen this behaviour was when I was accidentally in Chat mode instead of Composer mode. Hopefully someone else might be able to help! ---
**Author:** ![Eroxx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/eroxx/32/18485_2.png) [@Eroxx](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Eroxx)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-no-longer-editing-the-code-base-itself/39114/7 "2025-01-04T14:22:51Z")
So I reinstalled and uninstalled and now it’s “back”. I just want to know what happened! ---
**Author:** ![ViezeVingertjes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/viezevingertjes/32/18540_2.png) [@ViezeVingertjes](https://forum.cursor.com/u/ViezeVingertjes)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 12:37am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-no-longer-editing-the-code-base-itself/39114/8 "2025-01-05T00:37:06Z")
Composer also has a switch under it for chat / agent mode, maybe it was on the wrong one there. It switches randomly for me sometimes, but then it tells me it has no access to anything and i know thats the case. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/system/32/99069_2.png) [@system](https://forum.cursor.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 10:23am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-no-longer-editing-the-code-base-itself/39114/9 "2026-06-18T10:23:29Z")
Closed on June 18, 2026, 10:23am UTC