Auto mode
Letting Cursor pick the model for you per request instead of choosing one yourself. It reads the task and routes it to something that can handle it, which is why most people leave it on as their daily driver.
Where it comes up
Model Selection & Token Efficiency
“little bit later on in terms of persisting and defining custom behavior. So under the hood, plan mode is basically a skill that creates the structured plan. Um you can certainly, if you have uh like organizational requirements or personal p…”
Refactoring Legacy Codebases
“I mean, it's it's constantly changing. Right? The the models, the benchmarks, uh, what's the what's the best performing model? We do publish that information on our social media feeds. Um, one thing you could do is just leverage auto mode i…”
Cursor for Finance Teams
“So maybe where I would see it shine specifically in financial use cases is like maybe around more of those like data and analytical tasks versus like if you have to write some sort of prose or something like that, like a general-purpose mod…”
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'…”