Wait for Plan mode acceptance by user before continuing

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

When the user is prompted to enter plan mode, the agent should pause until the user decides to accept or reject the suggestion to do so (or there should be an option to regulate this behavior).

Steps to Reproduce

  1. In agent mode, ask to enter plan mode to build a feature
  2. Ignore the confirmation prompt and wait
  3. Eventually (after minutes?) the prompt will disappear and the agent will continue on its merry way and perform the requested action without entering plan mode (agent-driven build)

Expected Behavior

The plan mode prompt should remain until the user responds to it (or this behavior is overriden by a setting (e.g. always accept plan mode, never accept plan mode, wait x seconds before continuing w/o plan mode)

Operating System

Linux

Version Information

Version: 2.5.20
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 511523af765daeb1fa69500ab0df5b6524424610
Date: 2026-02-19T20:41:31.942Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.4.0
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.0
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.8.0-101-generic

For AI issues: which model did you use?

N/A (probably applies to all models), but I was using Opus 4.5.

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hey, thanks for the report. This is a known issue. When the Plan mode prompt times out, the agent keeps working instead of waiting.

There are already a few similar reports:

The team is aware. As a workaround, you can add a rule in .cursor/rules/ that reinforces Plan mode behavior:

---
description: Plan mode safety
alwaysApply: true
---
CRITICAL: In PLAN mode, NEVER edit files or run commands. Only describe the plan. Wait for explicit user approval before any implementation.

It’s not perfect, but it helps reduce how often it happens. I’ll pass this along to the team.

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