When the agent resumes a subagent the thinking effort can change

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

When the agent resumes a subagent
(I have it send a message saying continue usally), the thinking effort can change.

Steps to Reproduce

Have the current model resume one of the subagents, observe billing.

Expected Behavior

It to resume with the current model, or for the resume tool to accept an explicit model name parameter (it does not).

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Version: 3.13.6 (user setup)
VS Code Extension API: 1.128.0
Commit: c0f61a2f075ef9df63f57ab7b235df70390ccb90
Date: 2026-07-22T21:39:45.624Z
Layout: IDE
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Nightly
Electron: 40.10.3
Chromium: 144.0.7559.236
Node.js: 24.15.0
V8: 14.4.258.32-electron.0
xterm.js: 6.1.0-beta.256
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

Hey there,

This is something we’ve seen reported, and I’ve flagged it to our team. Resuming a subagent is meant to keep its original model and reasoning effort, so the effort silently changing (and costing more) is a bug on our side, not anything in your setup.

A workaround that should hold it steady in the meantime: open the main model picker, select the affected model, and pin the reasoning effort you want there (and turn Fast off if you don’t want the fast variant). Resumes fall back to that saved preference, so they should stay on the effort you picked instead of resetting to the model’s default.

On your second point: resume is designed to reuse the subagent’s original model, so once the effort drop is fixed it should carry over automatically without needing an explicit parameter. I’ve passed the override idea along as well.

I’ll follow up here as it moves.