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2 min lesson

When an Agent run drifts

Explain the practical rule behind "Now run the recovery walkthrough: stop the live run, queue the follow-up, and continue without restarting."

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Pause when you notice this: The tool calls have moved outside the files and scope you accepted.

Stop, queue, continue

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  1. See that? The run is live, and the mic turned into a black square. That square is Stop. Hit it when you need to steer before this goes further.
  2. Now type the follow-up as its own message and queue it. It waits for the current step. You redirected the run without throwing the context away.
  3. Step finishes... and your queued follow-up is next. Interrupt, steer, keep going. No restart.
Mid-run control: Stop, queue a follow-up, continue — no restart.

Practice next: Now run the recovery walkthrough: stop the live run, queue the follow-up, and continue without restarting.

Simulated Cursor 3.12 (macOS, light) — beta educational reconstruction, not the real product.