The model thinking effort is missing from model selection.
Steps to Reproduce
In the chat window, click on the model dropdown, and the models with different effort levels are missing. If you click Add Models, in Settings it shows all the list of available models. However, models with different levels of effort are not listed in settings either (see screenshot). Also, if you hover over the model selection dropdown, it shows a keyboard shortcut for cycling model and a separate keyboard shortcut for cycling thinking effort (see screenshot). But the Cycle Effort shortcut doesnât do anything.
Expected Behavior
Before installing the most recent update, these were the options that were available for Opus 4.7: Low, Medium High, Extra High. (see attached screenshot, from before the most recent update). I should, for instance, be able to select Opus 4.7 Medium.
I have found that for most of my tasks, Opus 4.7 with Medium thinking effort pulls in a good amount of context, doesnât spend too much time in the thinking step, and provides good results. This bug is forcing us to use Opus 4.7 with High thinking effort. This not only wastes tokens and processing time, but I have found that in High thinking effort the model overthinks and ends up producing poorer results.
Thanks for the clarifications. Is there a keyboard shortcut on Mac for toggling fast off and on? Before I updated Cursor, my flow was generally cmd+/ in order to select a model and Iâd just type something like âhigh fastâ to find the Codex model I wanted, or âmaxâ to find the Opus model I wanted. Now with the update, I can cmd+/ to select the family, then cycle through the reasoning with cmd+shift+/ but ⌠the only way to toggle fast is by clicking through the menu, it seems.
If there is a way Iâd love to know, otherwise it would be a nice to have
Cycling effort shortcut works for me on Mac, but I notice youâre using Windows. Not sure if there is an OS-level difference with this feature.
Also, do you have any global key board shortcut (or perhaps for a different app) which might be overriding the Cursor one? I have previously had issues with that and it just requires either changing the Cursor keyboard shortcut OR the other app one which are in conflict.
Nice catch @nemo_nemini! We do have a bug open with regards to cycling effort on Windows (it currently conflicts with another action that opens the Agents view).
This is also a problem on Macs - for me, â§â/ opens the Help menu and puts the cursor into a search box.
The new interface for thinking levels is very awkward for those of us who frequently switch between a couple of levels for different tasks. The previous view allowed for e.g. just high and xhigh to be quickly chosen. Even if the keyboard shortcut worked, itâs still much worse UX.
