Plan mode
A first pass where the model writes out what it intends to do and you approve the plan before any file is touched. Cheaper to correct a plan than to unpick fifteen wrong edits.
Where it comes up
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
“so much more than just an editor. Firstly, Cursor has full semantic awareness of your entire codebase. That includes things like files, dependencies, and team conventions. And on top of the editor, we also offer native AI workflows. things…”
Model Selection & Token Efficiency
“but you can also toggle to plan, debug, and ask mode. And in this case, we're going to start with the plan mode. And then you also have the ability to select different models. So you'll look and see here that there are a lot of models that…”
Cursor for Designers
“This is Cursor's in-house model and I love it. It is so fast and so effective in what it does and you'll see that in action today. You'll also see in this plus button here that we have a set of modes. These are kind of what Cursor I would s…”
Cursor for Data Science
“all the tables have been saved successfully. Um, so now that these tables are saved, um, we can now start working with them maybe to create some charts, create some visualizations. Um, so you know what I'm going to do is I'm actually going…”
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…”
How Cursor uses Cursor
“If you're interested in reading our CEO's take on all of this, we recently released an article I believe in March called the third kind of era of software development where where Michael actually goes in detail kind of where we're at in ter…”
PRD to PR
“project. Uh then we're going to hop into specifically plan mode to help our implementation. Uh we'll touch on skills and commands. Uh and then we're going to move into cloud agents and then how all of this kind of ties together into this ki…”
Cursor for Professional Services
“do here is I'm going to start building out a plan that's going to go step by step into each implementation detail to go with like a specd driven approach. I'm going to go back into the agent pane over here and I'm going to switch over to pl…”
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 101
“understanding before you start to dive in and start changing files. When you are ready to start changing files, um you have the ability to like reference files directly in the chat, but I would really really recommend if you take one major…”
Cursor 201
“That's ask mode. Um plan mode, hopefully, if you've done the 101, like you've experienced plan mode. Similar to ask mode, it's not going to make any changes to the underlying, you know, files that you've got in in the repo here, but it is g…”
Cursor 201
“And uh so, what I'm going to do um to start implementing that is I'm going to use plan mode. So, switch my agent into plan mode, um and then I'll ask it to plan out um cotton five. Um hopefully uh you already know about plan mode and have u…”
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.…”
Cursor for Security Teams
“Okay. So, now I'm going to use plan mode and I'm going to say, okay, you know what? This sounds useful. I want to ship Terraform infrastructure. We need to make it safe. Um the developer actually is my boss. They're going to be super mad if…”
Cursor for Support Teams
“the tooling that's available to the cursor agent, to the AI. Um, we have plan mode, which we'll talk about in a second. um ask mode and agent mode. Agent mode basically provides the full suite of um code writing, editing, file transfer and…”
Cursor for Sales Engineers
“explanation of the environment that I'd like to build out, the reason uh that it uh is kind of set up in this way, and the the the general workflow that I'd like this to facilitate. Um so, I have this prompt here. Uh this again I just kind…”
Cursor Rules, Commands, Hooks, and Skills
“We'll talk about those in a minute. um to dig deeper into the codebase in terms of that given area of interest and some of them should be out of the box for variance. Once the task agents are done, use the information to do what the user wa…”
Refactoring Legacy Codebases
“Yeah. The >> [clears throat] >> the single biggest thing you can do is using plan mode. Start with plan mode because it's going to help you align with the agent up front. The scope of the work that's going to be done. And so it gives you in…”
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 2.0 Launch
“input, we've kind of redesigned and simplified our prompt input. You can do shift tab or you can click on this and it's going to switch between the different modes. So, I'm going to shift into plan mode and I'm going to paste in some of the…”
Developer Productivity Trends
“advocate for starting with planning and we have our plan mode uh to go with that and then jumping to implementation especially for the larger more gnarly uh tasks. So for for sort of planning a new feature or solving a very very gnarly bug…”
Refactoring Legacy Codebases
“random repository on GitHub, PG Vector, and it's written in C. and they might decide that they want to migrate this repository from C to something a bit more modern like Rust for example. My number one tip or any migration is you need to st…”
Cursor for Financial Services
“just pulling a simple PR from Confluence. Notice I'm using cloud 4.5 Sona here. you have the ability to switch between different models and you can use of course either anthropic models or Google or bini and you can even switch your own int…”
Cursor for Mobile Developers
“between the two um, and kind of extend the functionality. Um, if you guys are are CLI users, you can you can also use uh, you know, the CLI here as well. Um, for those of you that aren't familiar with the CLI, uh, we have a CLI that matches…”
Cursor for Product Managers
“internally like we usually use that to like come up with a really detailed plan um or answer a question. I think like for example most of the frontier models given a very detailed plan will always probably execute correctly on that plan. An…”
Cursor x Slack
“And then on the right-hand side here, uh this was more of a a feature request kind of build where we needed to get more information. So, uh one of our engineers reported what looks like um some sort of regression uh where basically they swi…”
Securing Agentic Coding at Scale
“know how many of uh the agent turns are underspecified and could potentially shift into plan mode for better specification there's you know all of this learning and enablement that needs to happen as we collectively learn and adopt agentic…”