# Composer 1.5 Auto-Enable Causing Exponential Request Usage

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/composer-1-5-auto-enable-causing-exponential-request-usage/153676>\
**Category:** Feedback\
**Tags:** subagents, composer\
**Created:** [March 5, 2026, 9:35am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/composer-1-5-auto-enable-causing-exponential-request-usage/153676 "2026-03-05T09:35:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![dulk-dev](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/dulk-dev/32/84364_2.png) [@dulk-dev](https://forum.cursor.com/u/dulk-dev)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 9:35am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/composer-1-5-auto-enable-causing-exponential-request-usage/153676/1 "2026-03-05T09:35:35Z")

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I’m a Cursor Pro user on the legacy plan (500 fast requests). I’ve noticed that in the new version, sub-agent requests are also counted toward my usage.

Cursor inevitably auto-enables the built-in Composer 1.5 as a sub-agent for code exploration, and each Composer invocation consumes 2 requests.

This causes a single simple conversation to multiply my consumption. As shown in the screenshot, each request may only use a small amount of tokens, but my request quota gets deducted uncontrollably.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/7/3/738fe16f68ae8690e410387467c07b30116c59cd.png)

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**Author:** ![Fluent\_in\_France](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ebca7d/32.png) [@Fluent\_in\_France](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Fluent_in_France)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 9:46am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/composer-1-5-auto-enable-causing-exponential-request-usage/153676/3 "2026-03-05T09:46:50Z")

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I was wondering what was happening as well.

Can we select which model the sub-agent uses somewhere ?

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**Author:** ![Alexander\_Denecke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Alexander\_Denecke](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Alexander_Denecke)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 12:57pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/composer-1-5-auto-enable-causing-exponential-request-usage/153676/10 "2026-03-11T12:57:17Z")

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I observed a similar issue while working with cursor. In addition to my opus calls, I see several composer calls I haven’t triggered deliberately - with a similar pattern, i.e., same time, a few tokes.

 ![Screenshot 2026-03-11 135133](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/7/9/7909a538dcd3976879f62d92ff9c0a8e8114755a.png)

I was able to identify the sub-tasks (exploration) during the planning stage. Well, that’s ok in my case BUT, seeing what’s happening, i.e., summarize some code files I would prefer to delegate this to a local LLM, or at least a different model which doesn’t consume 2 requests - that’s not possible, or?

 ![Screenshot 2026-03-11 141427](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/b/6/b606affe74ae7551a5b22490174796335120ef5f.png)

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**Author:** ![Guilherme\_Lima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@Guilherme\_Lima](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Guilherme_Lima)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/composer-1-5-auto-enable-causing-exponential-request-usage/153676/11 "2026-03-11T13:59:22Z")

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You can create a custom rule to stop it from generating subagents completly.

This is FAR from optimal, is just a bandaid so **PLEASE CURSOR ALLOW US TO CONTROL SUBAGENTS**

**STOP FORCING COMPOSER ON US**

```auto

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description: CRITICAL - Prevents all subagent usage to avoid Composer model downgrade

alwaysApply: true

---

# MANDATORY: DO NOT SPAWN SUBAGENTS

You MUST NOT use the Task tool under any circumstances. Subagents are forced to use Composer which produces unacceptable results.

Do all work directly:

- Search code: use Glob, Grep, SemanticSearch, Read directly

- Run commands: use Shell directly

- Research docs: use WebSearch and WebFetch directly

- Browser tasks: use MCP browser tools directly

- Complex tasks: handle them yourself in this context, do NOT delegate

This rule has NO exceptions. Never launch a subagent. Never use the Task tool. Do everything in the main agent context.

```