GPT-5 Mini high reasoning effort

Hi Cursor team,

Could you confirm the current reasoning effort level of gpt-5-mini? If it is set to medium, is there a way to increase it to high reasoning effort? Since we’re being charged at provider cost, it seems reasonable that we should have access to this option.

Additionally, I noticed that o3/o4-mini are listed as high reasoning effort, but I haven’t seen the same anywhere for gpt-5-mini. Could you clarify this?

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