I code using Opus 4.5 in Plan and Agent, and I never manually enable max mode. And yet when I look at my Cursor usage page, there’ll be a whole slew of requests that are listed as using max. Not all the requests, I have no idea why only some.

Why is MAX being automatically enabled?

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