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?
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.
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
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
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.
i dont see it on my dashboard still though. But generally even if its intentional it should atleast be consistent within the web dashboard right? cursor.com/agents vs the settings of the same cloud agents? Shouldn’t it be?
The model lists across the dashboard and cursor.com/agents are now in sync! As models change over time the lists will keep updating, but they should stay consistent across both interfaces.
