Hey, thanks for the report.
Auto mode is designed to balance efficiency and cost. It doesn’t always route to the most capable model, especially for tasks it classifies as simpler. That can feel like a downgrade compared to flagship models.
A couple of things to try:
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Premium mode: recently added alongside Auto in the model selector. It prioritizes quality over efficiency and draws from the API pool. If you’re on Ultra, you have plenty of API budget for this.
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Manual model selection: for complex tasks, you can always pick a specific model (Claude 4.6 Sonnet, Claude 4.6 Opus, etc.) directly from the model picker.
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If you want to stick with Auto but occasionally need higher quality, switching to Premium or a specific model just for the harder tasks is a solid workflow.
If you’re seeing Auto actively producing wrong or broken output, not just “less smart”, it’d help to have a specific example with a Request ID (chat context menu, top right, Copy Request ID) so we can look at what model was routed and whether something went wrong.
Let me know how Premium works for you.