Renaming a saved plan makes it unimplementable

[Reinhard]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

When you create a plan and then save it to the repo and rename it you can not run the “build” step anymore. the ui still shows that its a plan and shows the corresponding ui but implementing is not working. also the reference from the chat is then not working anymore

Steps to Reproduce

1. create a aplan
2. save it as file to the repo
3. rename the file

Expected Behavior

i would expect cursor to track that the file has been changed or it that is not possible to link it back to the original plan and chat that you can still let the features be build.

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.2.20
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: b3573281c4775bfc6bba466bf6563d3d498d1070
Date: 2025-12-12T06:29:26.017Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.0.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

[sanjeed5 (Sanjeed)]

Thanks for the report! You’re right that renaming breaks the link in the original chat - though you can still open the renamed file directly to implement it, and @reference it in other chats since it’s just a regular file.

I’ve passed this feedback on to the team regarding better handling of renamed plan files.