Model selection toggling (keybinding request) and latency + forking

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Feature request for product/service

Cursor IDE

Describe the request

More and more, i find myself using the keyboard shortcuts to toggle between models and reasoning modes. The level of selection that cursor offers between models, reasoning effort, and speed is actually one of the primary reasons why I stick to cursor. Being able to augment these selections in a more native way would be an awesome feature upgrade :slight_smile:

heres the quick list of things that would be awesome

  1. cmd + / opens the selection modal, but it takes two arrow clicks to enter the actual set of selectable models. Ideally theres a shortcut to “quick equip” a model via a certain index (eg. cmd + shift + 1-9) or a different shortcut for just cycling through the model selector without opening the modal (similar to reasoning effort with cmd+shift+/)
  2. Add a shortcut for toggling fast/normal mode
  3. Add a shortcut to fork chat

less of a prio: latency between model selection sometimes has a p95 of like over a second, and forking can take up to 5-10s. It would be nice if the response had immediate change in the ui (eg. model selects and/or the forked chat appears) but is grayed out until the change actually occurs async (since sometimes i dont know what’s going on and click fork again).

thanks guys

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The range of models is one of the great things about cursor but the selection controls are not ideal at the moment.

  • the CMD / says it’s suppose to cycle but does not - it brings up a menu which requires clicking or cursor navigation

  • if I change model via the menu or via / it makes it the current model.

I would like to be able to :

  • defined a default model to start all new chats - composer/grok for example
  • change the current chat to another model (without changing the default model) eg /
  • run a specific task in a subagent with that model - eg write a this function using @GrokUser841719

also

  • if doing CMD / it should cycle instead of menu
  • any model menu that appears should have text entry to quickly select a model

thanks!