Agent Mode
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The Agent's search process repeatedly calls retrieval tools, and each step consumes context window and tokens.
If you are not sure which files are important, you should skip manual @ specification and directly let the Agent search on its own.
Agent mode consumes far more tokens than Ask mode and places higher demands on the model's logical reasoning capabilities
Agent mode is suitable for building complete applications from scratch and is not recommended for fine-tuning existing code.
The developer spent approximately one week getting the voice-controlled computer Agent feature to work end-to-end.
The developer used voice commands to have Agent mode automatically operate the computer, completing tasks such as opening Safari, entering email passwords, searching for keywords, querying Bitcoin and Ethereum prices, and opening style-matched YouTube remixes.
When Agent mode generates code, newly added or modified content is highlighted in yellow and red with a prompt asking whether to save, allowing confirmation one by one or all at once via Accept All, and there is also an auto-run option that, once enabled, no longer asks for consent each time.
During the demo, when a dependency version compatibility issue was encountered while starting the application, Cursor's Agent mode automatically reinstalled the appropriate version of the dependency and completed the fix.
All Facts (8)
The Agent's search process repeatedly calls retrieval tools, and each step consumes context window and tokens.
50%UnverifiedIf you are not sure which files are important, you should skip manual @ specification and directly let the Agent search on its own.
50%UnverifiedAgent mode consumes far more tokens than Ask mode and places higher demands on the model's logical reasoning capabilities
50%UnverifiedAgent mode is suitable for building complete applications from scratch and is not recommended for fine-tuning existing code.
50%UnverifiedThe developer spent approximately one week getting the voice-controlled computer Agent feature to work end-to-end.
50%UnverifiedWhen Agent mode generates code, newly added or modified content is highlighted in yellow and red with a prompt asking whether to save, allowing confirmation one by one or all at once via Accept All, and there is also an auto-run option that, once enabled, no longer asks for consent each time.
50%UnverifiedDuring the demo, when a dependency version compatibility issue was encountered while starting the application, Cursor's Agent mode automatically reinstalled the appropriate version of the dependency and completed the fix.
50%UnverifiedThe developer used voice commands to have Agent mode automatically operate the computer, completing tasks such as opening Safari, entering email passwords, searching for keywords, querying Bitcoin and Ethereum prices, and opening style-matched YouTube remixes.
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