Feature request for product/service
Cursor IDE
Describe the request
I’d like to propose a workflow improvement around plan mode and context management in Cursor.
Right now, when I create a detailed plan within a thread, it often consumes a large portion of the available context. That’s fine for planning, but when it comes to implementing the plan, the model already has a lot in its context, and the implementation may end up happening in the model’s “dumb zone.”
I’d love to see the ability to take an existing plan and build it in a new thread with fresh context.
Why this matters:
- Large plans can exhaust context before implementation even begins
- Starting a new thread manually is clunky (I’ve been doing this by saving the plan to a .md file, opening a fresh thread, referencing it there, and telling the model to implement it)
Ideal workflow:
- Create a plan in Thread A
- Use a dropdown option on the yellow “Build” button, such as “Build in New Thread”
- Cursor opens Thread B with the plan carried over and a full, fresh context budget for execution
This would make longer, more complex workflows much smoother and more scalable.
Curious if others are running into the same limitation?
Operating System (if it applies)
MacOS