In the desktop env, I setup Cursor’s native models either Composer 2.5 or Grok 4.5 as my Subagents and they work perfectly fine
But I started trying out the Cloud Enviroment on the Browser (Cursor.com) and it’s been good for the most part except there’s no way I could find where to set sub-agent to a cursor model instead it’s perma using GPT 5.5 High and burning usage
Hey Mohamed! There’s no UI for this on cursor.com today - the desktop subagent-model picker is client-side and doesn’t carry through to cloud runs.
The reliable workaround is to pin the model per-subagent in your repo. Commit .cursor/agents/<name>.md with a model: field:
---
name: build-engineer
model: composer-2.5
description: edit code, run tests, report changes
---
Your subagent prompt here.
Cloud agents pick these up from your cloned repo. Invoke by name (“use the build-engineer subagent to…” or /build-engineer) so the parent uses the pinned model. Docs: Subagents.
If you want a harder guardrail, your team admin can block GPT 5.5 High in the team’s model settings - team-level restrictions carry through to cloud subagent selection.
We’ll be tracking this thread to gauge interest in surfacing cloud-agent subagent controls in the dashboard.