How can I change default Chat mode as Ask, not Agent

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As the title, I want use Ask mode as default in Chat Tab, how to change it?

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Hey, currently, when a new session is created, agent mode is enabled by default. I’ll pass this on to our developers to implement saving the selected mode.

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+1, this has added a lot of friction to those of us that don’t want to use Agent mode - We now have to click that mode button every single time we open a chat

As an interim workaround, if you use (mac) keyboard shortcuts, Cmd-L opens Ask mode and Cmd-I opens Agent mode.

But it’s now very cumbersome to create a new chat in Ask mode even with keyboard shortcuts:
Cmd-L - Open sidebar in Ask mode
Cmd-N - Open a new chat in Agent mode, as 0.46 now re-opens the previous chat on hiding, whereas previously it used to create a new chat
Cmd-L (again) - Switch to Ask mode

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+1, thanks!

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+1 too, thanks

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+1, thanks!

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+1, thanks

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+1 as well

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+1 as well. I’d prefer edit over agent or ask, but even ask is way better than agent as a default start IMO. Ideally I’d prefer having a setting to set the default mode.

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+1 Also in general you should pass on that whenever you change a default it should be configurable. I find the agent to be quite a bit worse for my use cases, and it’s totally annoying to have it as the default.

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+1. This really needs to be configurable.

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+1 for me too

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+1. This must to be configurable, 100%

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+1.

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+1 make it configurable

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Any update on this, in terms of timelines on when we can expect this fix?

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yes. please make this configurable. I hate the agent mode.

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It would be less surprising UX to have the Ask/Agent choice remain the same when creating a new Chat, i.e. if it is one, then stay in that one.

In my case, I find Agent mode problematic, so I select Ask, and would like my next Chat session to not switch to Agent. Currently, I keep being surprised by the automatic switch to Agent!

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+1 thanks

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There is no good solution yet. But I get notice emails every day that say ‘+1’.

I use cmd + . for change to next mode now, this is cursor default keymap. It might alleviate the problem, at least it can be selected without mouse click.

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