Voice brainstorming

Feature request for product/service

Chat

Describe the request

Adding an AI mode among the “Agent”, “Plan”, “Debug”… called “Brainstorm”, so sometimes when building out my platform I find myself going on Sesame (AI voice chat) just so I can have something to throw ideas at and validate them with the context that it has of my product from previous chats and also web searches, so when I come up with a plan with the ai voice chat, there isnt really a way to transfer that plan out and paste it into a chat on Cursor so I have to regurgitate the plan I came up with earlier.

So if there was an AI mode that bridged that gap so you can brainstorm with the context of your entire codebase and create a .plan.md right there then that would be amazing.

Operating System (if it applies)

MacOS

Hey, thanks for the feature request. The idea of a separate Brainstorm mode makes sense.

For now, you can already build part of this workflow:

  • Ask mode is made for discussing ideas with codebase context, it even has the placeholder Ask, learn, brainstorm. It also includes web search.
  • Custom modes let you create your own Brainstorm mode with the prompt and tools you want. See Plan Mode | Cursor Docs and Overview | Cursor Docs
  • Once the plan is ready, Plan mode writes it directly into .cursor/plans/*.plan.md, so you won’t need to copy it over manually from another tool.

What we don’t have yet is a real conversational voice chat, only dictation for voice input. That’s a separate request, and there’s a similar thread here: Cursor app with voice-chat function

I’d also recommend checking this related feature request: Brainstorming Mode. You can upvote it to help signal that a dedicated mode is important.

thanks for your replay. Yes real conversational voice chat is what I’m going for, especially in the car and with a ChatGPT like spoken chat.

User: “Cursor, what the problem with the latest solution on the menu structure, could we implement it the same way as the landing page”?
Cursor: “Yes, im looking at the menu code right now, and we could use some of the code as a base, especially the xyz…Would you like for me to build up a plan for it? …”

Maybe a “On The move” mode, so Cursor know to keep the transaction short, a “don´t show code, explain it” mode.