Given Agent mode is here and working well now I think it should be reasonably expected that we get the abililty to define which models get used where, or at least setting the defaults.
Example:
- Main Agent: Claude Sonnet | Claude Opus | DeepSeek R1 | o1
- File Writer: Claude Sonnet | o3
- Review: …
- Flow/project/state manager: o1
Further it would be great to let the agent have some flexibility when assigning tasks to models, if it knows a task is simpler it might choose a faster, simpler model for example from a defined list of tradeoffs.
Combined with MCPs for though processes & memory this could be a huge improvement for relatively small effort.
Great suggestion! Currently model selection is limited to choosing one model at a time through the dropdown menu for all Agent tasks. We’ve got this documented at Cursor – Models
While the Agent currently only supports claude-3.5-sonnet, gpt-4o and o3-mini, with deepseek models coming soon, having task-specific model selection would definitely be a nice optimization
I’ll pass this feedback along to the team - being able to define model preferences per task type and having the Agent intelligently choose between allowed models based on complexity could be really powerful
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Did this just get shipped? If so that is freaking fast!!!
If so, will there also end up be settings for choosing your preferences like my request outlined at some point as well?
Keep up the great work.
I feel like this will get more optimized over time, but the net time savings of using faster/less complex models automagically for a given sub task will make the entire flow just so much faster. Super exiting to see this working.
