So, it seems that the Preview / Markdown toggle in the agent window has been deprecated, I have tried digging to confirm if this is true (maybe I am just sitting on the lazy scale somewhere, but I did try, maybe I’m just a few brain cells too short), but it is no longer there and now I admit the UX is awful! I have a flow where I have my agent write a plan (not in plan mode) and place it into a backlog folder - there is method behind my madness, it just seems to work much better than plan mode - then I review the plan, but I need it to render in Preview, as markdown syntax is awful and slow to read - that’s just my simple monkey brain.
WHYYYY, why remove it??? And no I don’t want to cram the agent and ide windows into one tiny laptop screen just so that I can get markdown preview.
Also, yes, sure, maybe I can just completely redesign my workflow and it’s currently not optimal what I am doing, but I don’t care and I want my preview markdown toggle back instead of faffing around trying to fix my workflow - that’s a day in itself when one has the motivation/time to prioritise such, like spring cleaning the house, or just putting the laundry in the laundry basket and not sprawled all over the floor.
Hey, thanks for the report. Good news, the toggle didn’t go anywhere. The Preview | Source switch is still in the top-right of the file header in the Agents Window, and a regular .md opens in Preview by default.
If you can’t see it, it’s most likely the file itself. The switcher doesn’t show up in a few cases:
The file ends with *.plan.md. These open in a separate Plan editor, rich view, but without the Preview or Source toggle
The file is inside a git worktree
The file is under .cursor or .claude or .codex
Could your backlog folder be hitting one of those? Send the exact filename with extension and where it lives, and I can tell what’s triggering it.
Quick workaround: save the plan as a normal .md file, not .plan.md, in a regular workspace folder. Not in a worktree, and not under .cursor or .claude or .codex. Then it should open in Preview with the toggle.
Funnily enough I just figured out the issue by mistake and came here to report on it, and then see your response - it is the .plan.md extension that seems to be an issue, as I had the agent write a .md that was not specifically intended as a plan - more of a cross chat context file - and it was produced as a .md and then the preview toggle was there, then I noticed the other files (backlog plans I asked the agent to create outside of plan mode, in normal agent mode) that were missing the toggle were .plan.md
Though when opening these .plan.md files via the side panel file explorer they don’t open in the Plan editor, rich view as you mentioned, just raw markdown view, with no clear way to switch the view.
And no I don’t want to cram the agent and ide windows into one tiny laptop screen just so that I can get markdown preview.