Disappearing To-Do Names In List of Tasks

[SkinnnyJay (Jonathan)]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

In Planning view and Agent Chat, The To-Do item names intermittently vanish, but the line and status is still there. This occurs usually after switching tabs or building.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Agent mode talking in chat window to build up task/plan.
2. To-Do list is generated shows in UI with descriptions next to their line in UI.
3. While building a plan and expanding the “X of Y Done View All” in either Plan.plan or Chat window you see the same results.

Expected Behavior

Each to-do list item should have a description and not a empty string. Originally the to-dos did before agent started, mid task somewhere they went from having descriptions to being empty string.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.1.0-pre.22.patch.0 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 159f7e129f630c2fad0f644285bdb14cc8a6e000
Date: 2025-11-10T22:59:27.440Z (6 hrs ago)
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0

For AI issues: which model did you use?

Code: Composer1
Planning: GPT5

Additional Information

How I understand to-dos, they can change, add, remove, update during certain phases of the flow.

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

[deanrie]

Hey, thanks for the report. This is a known issue with to-do tracking in Agent/Plan mode, and the team is actively investigating it.

Disappearing to-do names (empty strings) are part of a broader problem: to-do lists don’t always sync correctly during Agent runs - they may fail to update, not mark tasks as complete, or keep old items.

The team is aware and working on improvements to Plan mode’s to-do functionality. Your screenshot and clear reproduction steps are very helpful for the investigation!