The Best Cursor Feature | Cursor Plan Mode Explained

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Cursor's new Plan Mode has just been released. Learn how to use this new feature, which allows the AI agent to ask clarifying questions and generate a full implementation plan before writing any code. In this video, Denis Volkhonskiy, SWE Agent Advocate at Nebius Academy, walks through the new feature by building a 'Nutrition Coach' app from scratch in a Next.js project. He shows how to use Plan Mode to build the initial app, and then how to use it again to iterate and add complex features like streaming and Markdown rendering. What you’ll learn: - How to use Plan Mode in Cursor - When to use plan mode and when you can live without it - How to use Plan Mode to build an AI nutrition coach using Nebius Studio to analyze food photos with AI Learn more: Cursor plan mode: https://cursor.com/blog/plan-mode Explore more AI development insights at Nebius Academy: https://academy.nebius.com/ Chapters: 00:00 Introduction to Cursor Plan Mode 00:55 Implementing an AI nutrition coach using plan mode 01:34 Using Nebius AI studio for LLM API 01:55 Clarification questions 02:47 Reviewing the plan 03:48 Improving the app with Markdown rendering and LLM streaming 04:49 When to use Cursor plan mode ⸻ cursor ide, cursor ai, cursor plan mode, ai code editor, ai programming, agentic development, ai coding tutorial, ai developer workflow, next.js, nebius ai, ai agent, claude 4.5 sonnet