Inconsistent Model Options in Background Agents

[nerdimite (Bhavesh Laddagiri)]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Background Agent (GitHub, Slack, Web, Linear)

Describe the Bug

Background agents have an inconsistent set of model options in the default model options in the dashboard settings and the web agents interface and the IDE options. Please make this consistent. I want the option to select my default model as Sonnet 4.5 in the dashboard but it has vanished from the dropdown now. This is very frustrating and annoying, coz I wanna be able to use smaller models like Sonnet 4.5 as the default when triggering a cursor agent from Linear and I am not able to do that now. Why can’t the drop-downs across interfaces be the same when you do support pretty much all the major models for background agents??? This is so weird. Can you fix this soon?

Steps to Reproduce

• Look at the model options in https://cursor.com/dashboard?tab=cloud-agents
• And then look at the ones in https://cursor.com/agents
• Now look at the ones in the Cursor IDE

See Screenshot for side-by-side comparison

Expected Behavior

Same list of model options everywhere or at least all the major models if not all. Just having Opus from Anthropic without a Sonnet option is annoying.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Cursor IDE: 2.4.23

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

[sanjeed5 (Sanjeed)]

Thanks for the detailed report! I’ll share this with the team.

[nerdimite (Bhavesh Laddagiri)]

Thanks for the swift response, please update here when there’s some progress to fixing this. Until then I think I will have to create my own custom agent interface using the Cloud Agents API

[nerdimite (Bhavesh Laddagiri)]

Any updates on this if the dev team will be picking this up as a fix? I want to try cloud agents heavily, but this is blocking me from doing so as I can’t reliably select the model

[sanjeed5 (Sanjeed)]

Good news - Sonnet 4.5 (claude-4.5-sonnet-thinking) is now available in the Cloud Agents default model settings! You should be able to select it at cursor.com/dashboard?tab=cloud-agents.

To clarify on the broader question: the IDE and Cloud Agents will always have different model lists. We’re intentionally picky about which models are available for Cloud Agents since some perform better in that environment.