Plan mode seems to fail on final step of creating a plan

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

I noticed in the most recent 2 daily or nightly updates that plan mode seems to somewhat fail at the end of creating a plan.

After making an initial request to create a plan, and answering any questions, it will then draft a plan out properly, but at the very end when it needs to prepare or list the To-Dos it will show the loading animation and then say in the thinking thread/log output that the ‘plan tool’ seems to have failed or is having issues. It will then go about creating a second plan md file once more and then have the same issue once again. But after 2 tries instead it will simply provide the plan in the chat thread instead of leaving it ready to go at the md file level.

Its not a large breaking bug, but some detailed context that is written on md file is generally lost by the 3rd attempt when it passes the plan in the chat thread instead. As if the llm is summarizing to avoid another failure perhaps.

Steps to Reproduce

Simply utilize Plan mode and see if it prepares To-Dos on first attempt. It will simply fail and try once more, on 3rd attempt it will simply pass the plan in the chat thread instead of writing out a md plan file.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.3.7 (system setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 44f52350f2b7b9ee7625cfaade862ff53a016f40
Date: 2025-12-26T20:10:38.803Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Have you attempted this on an earlier version?

Hey, thanks for the report. I can see a screenshot with the error “The plan tool seems to be having issues” in the thinking log.

This is a known issue with creating plan files in recent versions. A similar bug was discussed here: `create_plan` Tool Fails with "Failed to create/update plan file"

To help the team investigate, could you please share:

  1. Request ID: open the chat context menu (top-right) → Copy Request ID
  2. Developer console logs: Help → Toggle Developer Tools → Console, reproduce the issue, then send the full log or screenshots
  3. Which model are you using for planning?

Let me know the details.

Tried a new chat thread with Plan mode as initial mode and was able to reproduce it again.

  1. Request ID: fd12c1a5-2bb8-4183-bfe5-7466b067e510

  2. Cleared log before start of first message sent:

vscode-app-1766843791825.txt (344.0 KB)

  1. Opus 4.5
    (However, same behavior occurred with GPT 5.2 Codex on separate try)