So in the past when communicating with an agent through the IDE tab, I was able to circumvent Agent questions and simultaneously guide the Agent down a different reasoning path. This was usually caused when the Agent’s response and questions suggested that it missed my intent, and it was helpful to redirect its reasoning. So instead of answering the questions I would just respond with a new prompt.
Now, when I do that, the prompt does not reach the agent, and instead it assumes I skipped everything and it accepts the default option A for each question and proceeds - exactly the opposite of what I want. I then have to immediately stop it and ask, again.
This issue ranges from slightly annoying to absolutely harmful. Not sure what it works like this now, but I would love to bring back the old mechanism.
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Hey, thanks for the detailed report. This is a known issue we’re already tracking, and I’ve shared your thread with the team. Right now, when you send a new message while there are open questions, it skips those questions first. Because of that, the agent can accept the default options before it reads your message. This isn’t something in your setup.
For now, there are two workarounds:
First click Stop, then send your new prompt. The agent will see the skipped questions and your message together in the same turn.
Or pick “Other” on the question and type your redirect there. That way your text is sent to the agent as the answer.
I can’t share a timeline yet, but I’ll reply in the thread when there’s an update. Let me know if the workaround doesn’t help.
Small update on this thread: the fix for the case where a new request, with Agent questions still open, skips the questions is included in Cursor 3.23. After that, your message reaches the agent together with the skipped questions, and the agent responds to what you wrote instead of falling back to the default options.
On the current stable version 3.22.x, the fix isn’t in yet. So until you update to 3.23, the same workarounds apply: click Stop first, then send a new request, or pick Other and type your redirect there.
Once you’re on 3.23, try again and let me know if the issue is still happening.