Agent mode
The setting where the model runs on its own: it reads files, searches the codebase, edits, runs terminal commands, and reacts to what happens — looping until the task is done or it gets stuck.
Where it comes up
Cursor for Mobile Developers
“this Cursor instance itself. And once that is kind of completed and done, then you're going to have uh the full kind of, you know, cursor agentic experience but now, you know, fully integrated into uh Android Studio, right? So, what that is…”
Cursor for Product Managers
“actually going to change from agent mode into ask mode. Uh and what ask mode does is it blocks the agent's ability to write code or change any files. So what we're focused on here is just exploring the repository, getting an understanding o…”
Cursor for Support Teams
“directly with the codebase they can use cursor agent mode or background agents to talk directly uh to the codebase understand its context understand specific patterns if a customer is running to an error message you can easily ask cursor wh…”
Cursor for Java Developers
“all the chats I had with Intelligj. And um down here you can have different modes. You have ask mode, plan mode, and agent mode. Um later on I'll dig deeper into plan mode, but right now let's focus on ask mode here. And on the right hand s…”
Cursor for Quality Assurance
“boilerplate tasks that are not super exciting to us. And so uh you know one approach is just to ask the agent itself in agent mode to write unit tests for us. However uh if we do that we're relying on the agent to kind of pull in uh relevan…”
Cursor Admin Guide
“across your organization. Moving on to some of the more advanced features, again, we're sticking on this theme of analytics cuz this is something that we see admins uh a having a lot of questions about, and it really helps understand exactl…”
Cursor CLI
“and that's going to open up, uh, the Cursor agent, as you can see here. Now, for those of you who are familiar with Cursor, and maybe familiar with the Cursor IDE or Cursor 3, just working in a in a different kind of surface, one thing that…”
Cursor for Data Science
“in my cell. So, I'm going to say I'm getting an error here related to uh the notebook not being able to find my file. Can you help me fix it? And in this scenario, I'm actually going to change this from ask back to agent because I actually…”
Cursor for Designers
“differentiates token consumption. Obviously in a mode like plan mode when you're writing documentation, you'll probably have you know, a lot of tokens spent on that. But then in agent mode or debug mode, a lot of your tokens are going to be…”
Cursor for Sales Engineers
“topic. Um, and there are there are a few things that I like to think of when I am uh selecting the specific model that I'm going to use. So, actually I'll I'll pop open the agent mode just so we can kind of see it isolated. Um, typically I'…”
Cursor for Security Teams
“>> And then switching gears a little bit, but when do you use agent mode versus plan and debug? >> Ah, great question. So to be perfectly honest, um initially I was um skeptical of plan and the product team here was very very excited about…”
PRD to PR
“and then the terminal on the bottom. Uh and then we have this agent pane on the right. Um and I will just quickly walk through this and then we can kind of dive deep. Uh so, in the agent pane, this is kind of like where you're going to be d…”
Cursor 101
“So, now rather than just throwing the prompt at the agent and hoping for the best, I'm going to use something called plan mode. And this essentially tells the agent, don't write code yet. Uh research the code base first and then give me a p…”
Cursor Automations
“You can see this one is like add dark mode to toggle top bar. Um it's quite easy, so in the traditional sense, if I don't have automations, what I would do is I probably copy this Jira or connect it with MCP. In this case, it's faster to ju…”
Cursor for Knowledge Work
“Um and so, I'd recommend playing around with the different ones. They all have different flavors. Um we've seen that Opus is a bit more creative. Um the GPT models are a bit more um problem solving. Um and choose your favorites from there.…”
How Cursor uses Cursor
“standards. Uh but then as well as if there are bugs that are surfaced or potential issues, you can use debug mode and agent mode to effectively go through and have the agent work with you as a as a structured companion and pair programmer w…”
Model Selection & Token Efficiency
“today but just so you're aware that's kind of a high-level of difference between the editor and the agent. And we'll use both today so you'll kind of get of when to use each. But across both these different views, you will start with the mo…”