So I was using Auto mode for research tasks and at some point Cursor decided that it’s going to use claude-4.6-opus-high-thinking for all subagents / skills, etc. As a result a single prompt used about 300M of API tokens (essentially 70% of my monthly Opus quota). [image] I thought by selecting …

Same symptoms? You pick Auto in the model selector and it starts using claude-4.6-opus? Can you share you triggered that?

Unexpected Claude Opus usage in 'Auto' mode - spent 70% of Ultra with a single prompt

Guillermo_Chavez (Guillermo Chavez) February 27, 2026, 12:12am 3

I got the same issue today not sure if is a issue or what

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