Planning Mode Feature

Feature Requests
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Hey there,

im using cursor for a while now, its awesome but I think its missing a key feature.

There should be some sort of “planning mode” when doing inputs to the LLM of your choice. The current composer is nice for things where you know a solution or have at least something in mind.
But when I develop features where I have no clue how it even could work or look like from the code perpective I often find myself doing something like “hey lets brainstorm XYZ”, mostly with o1.

So the ideal workflow for me would look like this:

  1. you open the composer like normal
  2. you have a toggle to enable the optional planning mode
  3. in planning mode you can brainstorm ideas, concepts, etc. without code being changed
  4. you have some sort of “thats fine, do a code change now” button which ends planning mode and starts the normal code generation.

I’m achieving the same atm with brainstorming in o1 and then doing something like: “now generate a prompt to do that code changes” which i would c&p into cursor.

Thanks! Let me know what you think.