Thinking cycles cannot be expanded?

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I’ve been using GPT-5 for planning, and cheetah for a number of things lately. I have noticed that I am unable to expand the thinking cycles of either model. I have found, over my time using Cursor, that being able to expand the thinking cycles of the models is CRITICAL to being able to work effectively, especially when it comes to troubleshooting the models which often exhibit odd, often just flat out wrong, and sometimes risky and dangerous behavior (i.e. they may want to nuke my entire git workspace, losing all the changes therein, that often have never been committed before.)

Why are the thinking cycle details hidden for these models? I have noticed you guys have hidden the details of the thinking cycles in the past, and every time it made using the agent harder. As a developer, I find it ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL that I have access to that insight. When the insight is blocked, I’m often at the mercy of a model that may in fact be doing things I really don’t want it to do. Being able to examine thinking cycle details allows me to understand what the model is trying to do, which then propagates into my next prompts, often the creation or update of rules, maybe the creation of a custom command (to add a more deterministic and well specified flow to certain agent behaviors), etc.

Please expose the thinking cycle details for these models. Including in plan mode (which, I think, may be hiding thinking details for ALL models right now?) We really need this insight.

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I have the same question - seeing the AI’s reasoning is critically important, because reading its thought process makes it much easier to steer it in the right direction and refine the request. This dramatically speeds up development, as you no longer need to blindly clarify queries over and over again without understanding where the AI went wrong in its reasoning.

Perhaps I just haven’t found it yet - is there an option to deliberately enable visibility of the AI’s internal reasoning? Right now, I see it “Thought” for 9 seconds, but when I expand the step, I only see something like “Adding early return,” which isn’t informative at all.

Alternatively, maybe I need to disable a certain model - if so, how can I tell which one it is? I’d gladly switch away from it without hesitation.