TODO items in the plan cannot be deleted

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

After generating a TODO list in Plan mode, I cannot delete it entirely; I can only delete the literal content, and the model still executes the deletion of the literal content in the todo.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Use plan mode to generate a todo list
  2. Try deleting unnecessary tasks from the todo list
  3. Unable to delete entire entries, only the literal content can be deleted
  4. After clicking build, the model still executes the todo that deletes literal content

Expected Behavior

Allow deletion of unnecessary to-do items or, after deleting the text content of a to-do, the model should no longer implement it

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Version: 2.5.26
Commit: 7d96c2a03bb088ad367615e9da1a3fe20fbbc6a0
Date: 2026-02-26T04:57:56.825Z
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Cursor/2.5.26 Chrome/142.0.7444.265 Electron/39.4.0 Safari/537.36

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

3

Hey, thanks for the report. This looks like a known limitation with TODO editing in Plan mode. Right now, there’s no way to fully remove a TODO item once it’s been generated.

A couple of workarounds you can try:

  • Instead of deleting the TODO text, send a follow-up message in the same chat asking the model to skip specific tasks, like “skip task 3 and 5 when building.”
  • Start a new chat and regenerate the plan without the unwanted items.

Could you share a screenshot or a short screen recording showing the empty TODO items and what happens when you click Build? That’d help us pass this along with more context.

Let me know if the workarounds help.