# On-demand "Continue with summary" + custom summary prompt **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Requests\ **Created:** [March 31, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/on-demand-continue-with-summary-custom-summary-prompt/73180 "2025-03-31T17:23:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![trubear1010](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/trubear1010/32/25684_2.png) [@trubear1010](https://forum.cursor.com/u/trubear1010)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/on-demand-continue-with-summary-custom-summary-prompt/73180/1 "2025-03-31T17:23:20Z")
**Feature Description:** - Continue with summary in a new chat by clicking a button / key binding. **Feature components:** - Continue with summary button - Either reserved file names for cursor/rules or an additional field in the Settings/Rules for custom prompt **Explanation of the current workflow:** A powerful workflow I use all the time has the following steps: 1. I use the chat until I feel like the performance starts to degrade (usually, 5-7 messages). 2. I send my last message: > write a detailed summary of what you’ve done so far. the summary should be sufficient to continue in a new chat. then update the @Plan.md (note: the plan.md is simply a document where the LLM keeps track of the implementation progress) 1. I copy the generated summary by hand and prompt a new chat with it and also include additional context like so: _Summary from last chat_ _Your task: Continue the implementation as described in @Plan.md. Start by doing a, b, c._ **How this workflow could change with this feature:** 1. Prompt the model to update Plan.md 2. Click “Continue in new chat” ---
**Author:** ![condor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/condor/32/73148_2.png) [@condor](https://forum.cursor.com/u/condor)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/on-demand-continue-with-summary-custom-summary-prompt/73180/2 "2025-03-31T17:27:19Z")
I thought about that too. Getting also into the halluciination limit depending on complexity of task and amount of details. Does the summary help in your case? (Not for me as the complexity is high and summary loses details i want) For now i found other users posts that helped me avoid this issue. But its still complementary to your suggestion. > [@\[Guide\] A Simpler, More Autonomous AI Workflow for Cursor \[New Update\]](https://forum.cursor.com/t/guide-a-simpler-more-autonomous-ai-workflow-for-cursor/70688): > > Hey everyone, Following up on the previous KleoSr Cursor Rules system, I’ve been working for the past week and the engagement with the community inside my old thread: [[Guide] Maximizing Coding Efficiency with MCP Sequential Thinking & OpenRouter AI - #47 by kleosr](https://forum.cursor.com/t/guide-maximizing-coding-efficiency-with-mcp-sequential-thinking-openrouter-ai/66461/47) the community on my previous thread helped drastically to simplify the approach while aiming for even more autonomy – think closer to a Devin-like experience right within Cursor. From Many Files to Just Two Remember the old system wi… ---
**Author:** ![trubear1010](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/trubear1010/32/25684_2.png) [@trubear1010](https://forum.cursor.com/u/trubear1010)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/on-demand-continue-with-summary-custom-summary-prompt/73180/3 "2025-03-31T17:32:19Z")
I found that project setup is very important. I use extensive documentation in the process. **Cursor rules (always apply)** - Behavior rules: how the model should behave. I had grok 3 with deep search look into community discussions for the model i use to write it. this helps the model avoid its common pitfalls - Informed responses: just explicitly tells the models that it has a bunch of tools and it better use them - project rules, PRD-inspired for the model to understand overall project structure The plan.md is extremely helpful and i always keep it up-to-date by simply asking the model once in a while to mark its progress an update action items if the list has changed in the process. And then summaries and new chat as described. With gemini 2.5 pro, this has been incredibly productive over the past few days. I made 2 weeks worth of progress in this time. Hope that helps 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![condor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/condor/32/73148_2.png) [@condor](https://forum.cursor.com/u/condor)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 5:38pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/on-demand-continue-with-summary-custom-summary-prompt/73180/4 "2025-03-31T17:38:21Z")
Cool yes, thanks! Im not using behavior rules but setting a persona, but yours is more detailed based on the model as well. Found also that mentioning the tools (especially if you use MCP) helps it. Once 3.5 forgot how to use the CLI 🙂 but was easy to fix. Will definitely check PRD. And will have to find time for 2.5 as well. For now chugging with 3.5 smoothly along. ---
**Author:** ![kleosr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/kleosr/32/115401_2.png) [@kleosr](https://forum.cursor.com/u/kleosr)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 1:07am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/on-demand-continue-with-summary-custom-summary-prompt/73180/5 "2025-04-01T01:07:17Z")
Hey guys, based on what @condor Let’s pair zero-shot or one-shot prompting with strict token limits to minimize unnecessary deviations. For instance, if you’re working with Claude 3.7 Sonnet, cap the output tokens to ensure precision without overcomplicating things and use lightweight models for initial drafts or exploratory work to save resources and reduce hallucination risks. ---
**Author:** ![condor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/condor/32/73148_2.png) [@condor](https://forum.cursor.com/u/condor)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 9:44am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/on-demand-continue-with-summary-custom-summary-prompt/73180/6 "2025-04-01T09:44:52Z")
@kleosr agreed. I’m already reducing prompts to only necessary details, incl. rules to avoid ‘misunderstandings’. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2026, 10:36am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/on-demand-continue-with-summary-custom-summary-prompt/73180/7 "2026-06-18T10:36:31Z")