Default Mode for new Chat

Feature request for product/service

Chat

Describe the request

New chats default to “Agent” mode.

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.]

Operating System (if it applies)

MacOS

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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.

It was probably in Cursor Settings - Agents. But not there anymore at least on my system (2.5.20).

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