To‑Do Lists Not Appearing in Agent Mode Despite Feature Enabled

[enrique72889]

Describe the Bug

The To‑Do lists panel doesn’t show up and no tasks are created, even though the To‑Do List feature is enabled in settings. It’s approaching the user prompt as earlier. No UI appears, and tasks aren’t tracked. Cursor is already updated to version 1.2.1.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Go to Settings → enable To‑Do List

2. Select Agent Mode (autonomous) using Claude 4 Sonnet

Notice: no To‑Do list panel appears

Expected Behavior

Agent mode (with To‑Do enabled) should display a dedicated panel tracking tasks created based on the user prompt.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.2.1 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 031e7e0ff1e2eda9c1a0f5df67d44053b059c5d0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

[constintan]

same for me

[condor]

hi @enrique72889 @constintan You can ask the agent to plan changes or create a todo list if you think it would benefit from it.

For simple task assignments it may not need a todo list.

With more complex cases it does create To-dos.

[zayadur]

So you’re saying the prompt needs to be a complex task for the todo_tool to be called? What determines the complexity of the task?

What if I explicitly ask if the tool exists and multiple LLMs claim that the tool is not in their kit but others I regularly see are?

If that wasn’t clear – I’m also unable to access the To-Do lists feature and if the above is true, I’m being asked to burn more tokens to feign complexity to invoke the tool.

[decsters01]

Could I help myself with your vote? To-do lists don't work

[condor]

I was offering a suggestion how to manually trigger it. It works well automatically when needed.

What Cursor version are you on?

[colours93]

just say use todo_write

[zayadur]

@condor latest.
@colours93 using todo_write worked. Maybe asking for todo_tool was confusing? I forget where todo_tool was mentioned.
@decsters01 see above.

[condor]

It works also without rules by just adding Plan todos. at end of prompt

[decsters01]

ro is good