Was curious to try out Cursor’s new “background agents” feature, but saw that the model selector offered only the (annoyingly expansive) MAX models. Did I miss something?
Yes, unfortunately!
Background Agents aren’t really worth it for small changes, and the bigger requests where Background Agents are most powerful would require the best models, in a situation where they can iterate and run actions with full context windows and unlimited tool calls.
Also, it’s the best way to keep our costs, and in turn, the price, predictable during the beta.