Self hosted cloud agents don't respect model selection

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

When creating a agent (self hosted cloud agent) from the cursor 3 desktop UI, it does not respect the model that I chose in the dropdown. I selected claude-opus-4-7-thinking-max but from the usage page I can see that it defaulted to “auto”, and from the web ui I can see that it was GPT 5.5 Medium under the hood.

When repeating the steps from the web ui, the model choice is respected.

I have also set my default model preference to Opus 4.7 in the cloud agents settings page.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Open cursor 3 desktop
  2. select self hosted cloud agent mode
  3. select model claude-opus-4-7-thinking-max with MAX mode on and AUTO mode off
  4. submit prompt
  5. check usage page

Expected Behavior

expected - usage says model is opus 4.7
actual - usage says model is “auto”

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

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Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 3.2.16 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 3e548838cf824b70851dd3ef27d0c6aae371b3f0
Date: 2026-04-28T21:07:47.682Z
Layout: glass
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.4.0

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Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

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This is a known bug with cloud agents launched from the Cursor desktop (Glass) UI. A fix has been merged to our main branch, but hasn’t landed in the 3.2.x release you’re on. You should see this resolved in a future update.

In the meantime, launching cloud agents from the web UI works correctly with model selection, as you’ve already found.

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