All of my "cut" options are grayed out.

I have been working on my helmet a while now, I got advice from others on this forum to do surface modeling instead of a lot of extruded cuts. It looks good, but all I need it to cut a few things out. I made a closed figure on a plane adjacent to the front plane, but all of my "cut" options are greyed out. Could someone help me and explain what they did?

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