Feature request for product/service Cursor IDE Describe the request Wouldn’t it be useful if plans were stored in project-specific directories instead of a global location? Right now, plans are saved under /home/.cursor/plans. It might be better if each project saved its own plans within the repo,…

Oh, you mean like we could do with custom modes.. yeah… cursor took that away…

Yeah, this trips up a lot of people. Cursor writes plans to ~/.cursor/plans globally by default and there’s no setting to change that location, so plans from every project end up piled in one folder. The only built-in option is the “Save to Workspace” button, which moves a plan into that project’s .…

Plans saved in project dir

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richfromm (Rich Fromm) March 25, 2026, 1:10am 3

Grr, cursor won’t let me point out that there are 6 requests for essentially the same thing. See Option to save Plans in project-level .cursor directory - #5 by richfromm

Topic		Replies	Views
Have the ability to save plans to the project folder rather that ~/.cursor/plans Feature Requests plan-mode	2	138	August 8, 2026
Allow for plans to be stored and still built outside .cursor/plans Feature Requests plan-mode	7	219	June 14, 2026
Why aren't plans saved in the repo, like rules? Feature Requests plan-mode	3	181	March 25, 2026
Plan files location Feature Requests plan-mode , rules , windows	1	760	April 2, 2026
Option to save Plans in project-level .cursor directory Feature Requests plan-mode , context	19	1126	August 25, 2026

Plans saved in project dir

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