Plan mode doesnt show debug interactive elements

Support Bug Reports
, ,
1

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

When changing between debug and plan modes, the agent will still setup the debug “watching logs” UI and proceed buttons and such, even when in plan mode (After debug mode). However none of those UI elements render unless in debug mode, you get a blank chat window. Switching to debug they appear. Switching back they disappear. Very confusing, they should always be visible if the agent is rendering them.

Steps to Reproduce

start in debug, debug something, switch to plan, tell it to come up with a plan and then ask it to test again and output will be missing the test UI.

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 2.5.17
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 7b98dcb824ea96c9c62362a5e80dbf0d1aae4770
Date: 2026-02-17T05:58:33.110Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Early Access
Electron: 39.3.0
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.21.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

3

Hey, thanks for the report. This looks like a rendering bug: the debug UI components (log viewer, continue buttons) don’t show up outside of Debug mode.

Could you share a couple of things so we can file this properly:

  • Screenshots of the empty chat in Planning mode, and the same screen after switching back to Debug mode
  • The Request ID from the affected chat session (chat context menu in the top right > Copy Request ID)

For now, the workaround is to stay in Debug mode when you need the agent to run tests and interact with those UI elements. I’ll pass this along to the team.