While this is doubtless a sensible default for many / most users, I would like to have a “Default Agent mode” setting, so that all new chats would open (for me) in “Plan Mode”.
[Advanced - we use Cursor as a consultancy for several clients, and with slightly different workflows - it would be ideal if this setting could be over-ridden by a repo-specific setting.]
It might be a bug in the latest version. Would be weird for them to remove this feature. (In previous Cursor versions you were able to set a preferred mode for new chats.)
It might be there, but sufficiently well hidden I’ve been unable to find it.
Do you know where it is/was?
I can change the mode for a chat I created. I’m after a way of setting the DEFAULT mode, because I’ve occassionally failed to flip from “Agent” to “Plan” for complex tasks.
The Default Mode setting was removed in 2.5. From the changelog:
Removed Default Mode setting so each new agent conversation begins fresh.
The mode defaults to Agent for each new chat, but can be changed in the Composer.
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Now that the model can intelligently suggest switching modes mid-conversation (e.g., offering to switch to Plan mode when it makes sense), a static global default was less useful than it used to be. You can still switch modes per-chat, it’s just no longer a sticky global default.
Even though it was clearly a highly requested feature:
Cursor devs, please bring this back? AFAIU it’s a purely value-adding feature with zero risk, it just gives the user more control over a simple (but often important) preference.