Plan markdown editing broken

Bug Reports
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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

I can no longer edit the plan markdown.

This used to work. You could make a plan with “Planning Mode”, view the markdown, and if you wanted to make small tweaks to the plan, you could easily switch from “Preview” mode on the plan.md file to “Markdown” mode, edit and save it. It was a fast way to make small tweaks rather than having to prompt the model to make changes to the plan.

Steps to Reproduce

Use Plan mode to make a plan for a task.
Try to edit and save the plan’s markdown after it’s been generated. Saving is met with the error in the screenshot below.

Expected Behavior

Edit/update, and save the plan markdown.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

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Operating System

Linux

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.0.77
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: ba90f2f88e4911312761abab9492c42442117cf0
Date: 2025-11-13T23:10:43.113Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.8.0-87-generic

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

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Hey, thanks for the report. Quick question: have you tried clicking the “Save to Workspace” button on the plan.md file?

By default, plan files are internal/virtual and can’t be edited directly. You need to save them to your workspace first so they become regular editable files.

This will help us understand whether it’s just a usage detail or a bug in the save feature itself.

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Oh jeeze I feel dumb now. I didn’t know that button existed…. It took me forever to find even after you told me about it.

What I used to do was just go into the markdown view and edit/save.

Thanks for pointing this out!

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Not your mistake at all - this has tripped me up before, too. :slight_smile: It took me a while when I found that for the first time.

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