Its unbelievable that Cursor dev team has decided to remove ‘custom modes’ after the paying community already went through the previous pain of having ‘Manual’ mode removed and you can recall the amount of pushback that got, and I wonder how many of those users have since moved onto other LLM powered IDE’s. ‘Custom modes’ was brought in to address that issue and gave the user the power to decide how they wanted their LLM interaction to flow, just re-read all the posts in there and you will soon recall the use cases for manual mode and its successor ‘custom modes’ 'Manual mode' missing
Its seems to me that Cursor prefers a full agentic flow with all tools and capabilities on as default instead of allowing the users to make those decisions, does ‘Agent’ mode generate more income for Cursor? I have been paying for and using Cursor for my personal use for 2 years and I also use it at work under an enterprise license, and so to now see such a key feature removed is astonishing, given the impact to users workflows.
While I do like to often use ‘Agent’ mode if I am in a hurry (and since the add to context feature got dumbed down), I also often use a custom ‘Manual’ mode whenever the ‘Agent’ mode struggles with a task, or goes off the rails using tools and shell commands which actually makes the LLM response worse/unexpected than when I switch to ‘Manual’ mode and give it the full file context and allow only edit/apply permissions. So having the ability to use both ‘Agent’ and ‘Manual’ modes allows me to fix an issue that sometimes the ‘Agent’ mode gets stuck trying to solve. TBH i am also not so happy that Cursor 2.0 made it harder to add context to a chat, as often now right clicking a project file to add to chat doesnt always work (agent or manual mode), and this was a very useful usability feature before, and so just seems like the same MO of Cursor to keep driving everything towards pure ‘Agent’ modes when these LLM’s have the capability to work with ‘Agent’ and ‘Manual’ modes (again i refer to the use cases in this and the previous linked chat threads).
This should be a long-term feature, and not just BETA, and then suddenly deleted without even a message or a chance for this paying community to vote, who makes these architectural decisions at Cursor, someone that actually uses ‘custom modes’ i take it not, and not an LLM that’s for sure, it wouldnt allow something as myopic as this to take place!
Please bring back ‘custom modes’ and improve it further for this paying community (we arent just niche), as when company’s dont listen to their customers, they could just become one of those blips in the history of Ai, that get lost to the annals of time, as other Ai IDE’s come on to the scene.