# Interpreter mode broken again

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/interpreter-mode-broken-again/6962>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [August 1, 2024, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/interpreter-mode-broken-again/6962 "2024-08-01T21:36:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![fun\_strange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@fun\_strange](https://forum.cursor.com/u/fun_strange)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/interpreter-mode-broken-again/6962/1 "2024-08-01T21:36:01Z")

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It’s saying things like “I will do this and that” and then not doing anything

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**Author:** ![litecode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/litecode/32/2966_2.png) [@litecode](https://forum.cursor.com/u/litecode)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/interpreter-mode-broken-again/6962/2 "2024-08-01T22:30:41Z")

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Out of interest, is there a large amount of text in the chat?

I have come to accept that, at the moment, when chats get ‘too large’ in Composer, I just have to start a new chat because I also get the “I will do this and that” behaviour (but then it doesn’t do anything but I still find myself scrolling around my files to see if any changes were made etc).

Come to think of it, that is probably another feature request from me:

“If the chat gets too large for Cursor or the AI Model to handle, show an indicator that says ‘your chat has exceeded the context window limits for this model (or Cursor or whatever the actual case made be)’”…

or something like that.

**Edit** :

Related feature request added here:

> [@Display number of tokens in current chat](https://forum.cursor.com/t/display-number-of-tokens-in-current-chat/6972):
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> I am not sure if this information is easily available, but I just noticed that when mentioning files with the @ feature in Ctrl + L in Long Context Chat mode, there is a handy feature that displays the token length of the file next to the file name. That is very cool. It made me wonder if it would be possible to display the cumulative token length of the chat somewhere - i.e. where the value was updated as the chat progressed, just to see how large the chat was actually getting. In case it ma…

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**Author:** ![fun\_strange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@fun\_strange](https://forum.cursor.com/u/fun_strange)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 11:04pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/interpreter-mode-broken-again/6962/3 "2024-08-01T23:04:36Z")

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There wasn’t actually much. I just asked it to do some basic git commands

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/system/32/99069_2.png) [@system](https://forum.cursor.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 8:58am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/interpreter-mode-broken-again/6962/4 "2025-12-21T08:58:51Z")

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Closed on December 21, 2025, 8:58am UTC

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