fix(web): Cursor threads keep a stored model the catalog doesn't list#24872

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Problem

A Cursor thread can store a model that the instance's Cursor catalog doesn't list right now. The catalog comes from the account through the Cursor SDK, so this happens before discovery finishes, after the account changes, when a model leaves the account's list, or when an agent stores an id Cursor doesn't serve. The catalog includes models the picker hides by default, so a hidden model is not affected. The composer then shows the first catalog row (often Auto) and drops the stored traits. A send from that composer moves the thread to Auto without its effort.

Reported in https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/16526: a delegate_task child created on Cursor with claude-opus-5-5 and effort: medium ran on that model, but its composer showed Auto / Balance.

Change

OpenCode and Antigravity already keep a stored model the catalog lacks and show it as unavailable, and OpenCode keeps its saved options. This PR applies those paths to Cursor:

modelSelection.ts: keep the stored model and add it to the picker as an unavailable row.
composerProviderState.tsx: send the stored options when the catalog lacks the model.
TraitsPicker.tsx: show those options as traits.
ModelPickerContent.tsx: keep the unavailable active row while the Cursor instance isn't ready.
useComposerSelection.ts: re-picking that row keeps the stored model instead of taking the first catalog row, and picking the model the composer already shows keeps the thread's options. If saving that pick on the thread failed earlier, the re-pick saves it again (browser test only). OpenCode and Antigravity share this pick path and get the same fix. They were not run in the app; the browser test covers the shared path.

The server forwards the stored id and params unchanged (sdkModel.ts). If the account truly lacks the model, Cursor's SDK rejects the send and the thread shows "Cursor cannot run the model ...", so the thread never switches silently. Mobile already keeps the stored selection and options, so it needs no change. Codex, Claude and the other providers keep their current fallback.

A model the user hid in Settings still falls back, as for OpenCode, by design. Picking the model the composer already shows leaves its options alone for every provider in the chat composer, the same guard open https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/16572 adds through resolveModelPick; https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/16572 also covers the Settings pickers. This was run only on Cursor; the other providers rely on the browser test.

Scope and approval

Fixes https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/16526, triaged as a bug. The triage lists two directions: treat an unmatched Cursor slug as unavailable the way OpenCode and Antigravity do, or keep the stored selection for send only. It leaves the choice to a maintainer. This PR takes the first, because it reuses the existing OpenCode and Antigravity path and also tells the user the model is missing from the catalog. Please confirm that direction; the change awaits maintainer review.

Verification

Signed in to a Cursor account through T3's Cursor sign-in in a fresh isolated home (Cursor SDK 1.2.0 on both builds), on a Linux web dev build: this head e24345a15c first, then main 0f13d2ccbd, on one test home. A Composer 2.5 turn called t3_thread_launch to create a child on gpt-5 with reasoning: low, the way an agent does. The account's live catalog lists 47 models and no gpt-5:

1	$ jq -r '.models \| length' cursor.json; jq -r '.models[].slug' cursor.json \| grep -c -x 'gpt-5'
2	47
3	0

I made the picks and sends in T3's Browser panel.

1. The thread keeps the stored model, shown Unavailable with its effort, and a send keeps it. Main opens the child on Auto. This head shows gpt-5 low Unavailable.

Main: the child thread's composer shows Auto

This head: the composer shows gpt-5 low with an Unavailable badge

After a follow-up send, main ran on default with no options and moved the thread there. This head sent gpt-5 with reasoning: low, Cursor refused it, and the thread kept both.

Main: the follow-up completed and the composer still shows Auto

This head: Cursor cannot run the model "gpt-5", and the composer still shows gpt-5 low Unavailable

Main 0f13d2ccbd, run and thread records, and Cursor errors in the server log:

1	$ python3 read_runs.py statev2.sqlite \| grep -E 'd1745161\|a016a185'
2	RUN d1745161-93f3-486c-a6c6-9313ff50a61f 1 completed 2026-11-11T04:21:10.309Z {"instanceId": "cursor", "model": "composer-2.5", "options": [{"id": "fastMode", "value": false}]}
3	RUN mcp:a016a185-89a1-467d-8b61-55c233f74af3 1 completed 2026-11-11T04:22:00.056Z {"instanceId": "cursor", "model": "default"}
4	THREAD d1745161-93f3-486c-a6c6-9313ff50a61f Call the t3_thread_launch tool exactly once to cre... {"instanceId": "cursor", "model": "composer-2.5", "options": [{"id": "fastMode", "value": false}]}
5	THREAD mcp:a016a185-89a1-467d-8b61-55c233f74af3 Reply with the single word: ready {"instanceId": "cursor", "model": "default"}

1	$ grep -c 'CursorModelUnavailableError' main.log
2	0

This head e24345a15c:

1	$ python3 read_runs.py statev2.sqlite \| grep -E 'e60a8c15\|ddb433dc'
2	RUN e60a8c15-7f72-4da2-8a06-b0c7a2b5e0f7 1 completed 2026-11-11T04:15:55.738Z {"instanceId": "cursor", "model": "composer-2.5", "options": [{"id": "fastMode", "value": false}]}
3	RUN mcp:ddb433dc-bf9d-4d47-a958-b2ee3a9030f2 1 failed 2026-11-11T04:19:43.310Z {"instanceId": "cursor", "model": "gpt-5", "options": [{"id": "reasoning", "value": "low"}]}
4	THREAD e60a8c15-7f72-4da2-8a06-b0c7a2b5e0f7 Call the t3_thread_launch tool exactly once to cre... {"instanceId": "cursor", "model": "composer-2.5", "options": [{"id": "fastMode", "value": false}]}
5	THREAD mcp:ddb433dc-bf9d-4d47-a958-b2ee3a9030f2 Reply with the single word: ready {"instanceId": "cursor", "model": "gpt-5", "options": [{"id": "reasoning", "value": "low"}]}

1	$ grep -c 'CursorModelUnavailableError' head.log; grep -o 'CursorModelUnavailableError: [^\\]*' head.log \| sort -u
2	4
3	CursorModelUnavailableError: Cursor cannot run the model "gpt-5". Cursor only runs models from your Cursor account. Choose one of those, or use OpenCode for OpenRouter and other API-key models.

2. Re-picking the Unavailable row keeps the stored effort. On this head the picker lists gpt-5 Unavailable as the selected row. I picked it (highlighted, Enter), and the composer still showed gpt-5 low. The send above came after this pick and went out with reasoning: low. Main has no gpt-5 row.

Main: the picker filtered to gpt-5 lists only catalog models, with no gpt-5 row

This head: the picker filtered to gpt-5 lists gpt-5 Unavailable, selected, with Reasoning low

This head: after the re-pick the composer still shows gpt-5 low Unavailable

Tests. The Cursor cases in src/modelSelection.test.ts (apps/web).

Main's modelSelection.ts with this head's test file: 3 fail

1	$ git show main:apps/web/src/modelSelection.ts > src/modelSelection.ts # main 0f13d2ccbd source, head's test file
2	$ vp test run src/modelSelection.test.ts -t "cursor\|Cursor" --reporter=verbose 2>&1 \| grep -E "✓\|×\|Tests "
3	× \|unit\| src/modelSelection.test.ts > instance-scoped model selection > cursor catalog gaps > preserves a selected model when a catalog refresh no longer contains it 7ms
4	× \|unit\| src/modelSelection.test.ts > instance-scoped model selection > cursor catalog gaps > adds the selected missing model as an unavailable option 3ms
5	✓ \|unit\| src/modelSelection.test.ts > instance-scoped model selection > cursor catalog gaps > does not resurrect a hidden model when the raw catalog omits it 1ms
6	× \|unit\| src/modelSelection.test.ts > instance-scoped model selection > sends a Cursor thread's stored model and options when the catalog lacks them 1ms
7	Tests 3 failed \| 1 passed \| 41 skipped (45)

This head: 4 pass

1	$ vp test run src/modelSelection.test.ts -t "cursor\|Cursor" --reporter=verbose 2>&1 \| grep -E "✓\|×\|Tests " # head e24345a15c
2	✓ \|unit\| src/modelSelection.test.ts > instance-scoped model selection > cursor catalog gaps > preserves a selected model when a catalog refresh no longer contains it 2ms
3	✓ \|unit\| src/modelSelection.test.ts > instance-scoped model selection > cursor catalog gaps > adds the selected missing model as an unavailable option 1ms
4	✓ \|unit\| src/modelSelection.test.ts > instance-scoped model selection > cursor catalog gaps > does not resurrect a hidden model when the raw catalog omits it 0ms
5	✓ \|unit\| src/modelSelection.test.ts > instance-scoped model selection > sends a Cursor thread's stored model and options when the catalog lacks them 1ms
6	Tests 4 passed \| 41 skipped (45)

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Re-picking while the browser remembers a different effort for that model. On a real account that state can't be set through the UI, because the model isn't in the catalog.
A separate desktop run (desktop wraps the same web code) and native iOS and Android, which this PR doesn't change.

Prior PRs

None. I found no open or closed PR that changes this fallback for Cursor.

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Fixes pingdotgg/t3code#16526

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Walkthrough

The composer now preserves Cursor model selections that are absent from the provider catalog. The picker can show the selected model as unavailable, and composer state retains its options. Tests cover selection and state handling.

Changes: Cursor model preservation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Preserve unavailable selections `apps/web/src/modelSelection.ts`, `apps/web/src/components/chat/useComposerSelection.ts`, `apps/web/src/components/chat/useComposerSelection.browser.test.tsx`	The resolver and composer selection handler preserve unavailable Cursor models. The handler checks the selection shown for the provider before updating the draft. Browser tests cover re-picking the stored model with no runtime, selecting Cursor while another provider is active, and retrying a failed save.
Propagate and expose unavailable selections `apps/web/src/components/chat/composerProviderState.tsx`, `apps/web/src/components/chat/ModelPickerContent.tsx`, `apps/web/src/components/chat/TraitsPicker.tsx`, `apps/web/src/modelSelection.test.ts`	Composer state retains options for unavailable Cursor models. The model and trait pickers handle unavailable selections. Tests cover catalog gaps and option preservation.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	Passed	The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: Cursor threads keep a stored model when the catalog does not list it.
Linked Issues check	Passed	[`#16526`] requires the composer to keep a thread's stored Cursor model when the catalog does not contain it, rather than showing and sending a different model. The whole-PR diff adds Cursor to the unav…
Out of Scope Changes check	Passed	The changes implement the unresolved-model behavior in [`#16526`]. The shared `useComposerSelection.ts` path also keeps options and retries saving when a user re-picks the model already shown; this is d…
Description check	Passed	The description covers the problem, the change, scope and approval, and verification. The problem section explains how a Cursor thread can store a model that the catalog does not list, and how the com…

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[#16526] requires the composer to keep a thread's stored Cursor model when the catalog does not contain it, rather than showing and sending a different model. The whole-PR diff adds Cursor to the unavailable-selection handling in apps/web/src/modelSelection.ts. It also makes useComposerSelection.ts preserve unavailable selections and keep the current options when the user re-picks the shown model. The change summaries report that the composer provider state and traits picker retain the stored options and that the picker includes the active unavailable Cursor model. Tests add Cursor catalog-gap cases and verify dispatch of claude-opus-5-5 with effort: medium.

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The changes implement the unresolved-model behavior in [#16526]. The shared useComposerSelection.ts path also keeps options and retries saving when a user re-picks the model already shown; this is directly related to preventing the composer from changing the stored selection. The Cursor tests cover catalog gaps and dispatch. No unrelated change is evident in the reviewed diff or change summary.

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The description covers the problem, the change, scope and approval, and verification. The problem section explains how a Cursor thread can store a model that the catalog does not list, and how the composer then shows Auto and drops the stored traits. The change section lists each affected file and the behavior it adds. The scope section links issue #16526, names the triage directions, and states which direction the PR takes and why. The verification section gives browser and unit test results, screenshots, and command output, and it lists what was not checked. The template's 'Scope and approval' and 'Verification' requirements are met. The description ends with the model and harness used, as the template asks.

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…	…	@@ -174,11 +174,13 @@ export function useComposerSelection(input: ComposerSelectionInput) {
179	180		settings,
180	181		providerStatuses,
181	182		model,
	183	+	{ preserveUnavailableSelection: true },

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Keep the thread’s options when re-picking its unavailable model.

When a Cursor thread has a stored model with saved options, this new path lets the user re-pick that model. Lines 189-215 then build nextModelSelection from stickyOptionsByModelByProvider and write it with replaceOptions: true. If sticky options are absent or differ from the thread’s options, the re-pick silently removes or changes the saved options. Preserve the current draft or thread options when the selected instance and model already match. The browser test should check the options as well as the model.

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Open #16572 covers this, so this PR won't add a second fix for it. #16572 changes this same hunk of useComposerSelection.ts: its resolveModelPick returns no change when the picked instance and model match the composer's shown selection, so the pick does nothing. With this PR, a Cursor thread's stored model is the shown selection, with its stored options. Re-picking that row matches it, so the effort stays once #16572 lands.

Until then, one gap remains. Re-picking the unavailable row replaces the stored options with the ones this browser remembers for that model, or none. The traits picker builds an unavailable model's controls only from the options it already has, so a dropped effort can't be set again from the UI.

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Fixed in d6b446eabc. Picking the model the composer already shows now writes nothing, so the thread's stored options stay. Re-picking the unavailable Cursor row keeps effort: medium whether this browser remembers no options for that model or different ones. The browser test now checks the options as well as the model, plus a case where the session runs on another instance and the pick still switches back.

This is the same guard open #16572 adds through resolveModelPick. Since #16572 hasn't landed, this PR carries it for the chat composer. Whichever PR merges second keeps one copy.

A thread on Cursor Claude Opus 5.5 at Medium, with this browser remembering High for that model, after re-picking the unavailable row:

Before (d76690b5d1)	After (d6b446eabc)
Composer switched to High after the re-pick	Composer stays at Medium after the re-pick

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Addressed CodeRabbit's nitpick in 5273207247: both browser tests in useComposerSelection.browser.test.tsx now read the draft store and assert inside vi.waitFor, with the assertions and expected values unchanged. The first test still fails against the hook before d6b446eabc.

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test(web): assert the composer's effective model and options after the Cursor switch-backdb66b19

Oonly21mil3d ago

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Addressed CodeRabbit's nitpick in db66b196b0. The switch-back test in useComposerSelection.browser.test.tsx now also checks the composer's effective state through deriveEffectiveComposerModelState: after the pick, with no sticky options, the composer shows claude-opus-5-5 with effort: medium recovered from the thread. It keeps the activeProvider check and does not require the raw draft selection to equal the stored one. The test now fails if the hook writes a stale option or the wrong model.

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External image Minor · Preserve Cursor options when another provider becomes… · composerDraftStore.ts:1159-1163

apps/web/src/composerDraftStore.ts:1159-1163 External image Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Preserve Cursor options when another provider becomes unavailable
If another provider has draft options and becomes unavailable, the composer can fall back to the stored Cursor model without its effort option. The controls omit the option, and an immediate send omits it from the model selection. Recover the stored Cursor options without restoring options that the user intentionally cleared.

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6 Review comment at @apps/web/src/composerDraftStore.ts around lines 1159 - 1163:
7 Update the modelOptions fallback around modelSelectionByProviderToOptions so a
8 stored Cursor selection retains its effort option when another provider’s draft
9 options are unavailable. Recover only the missing Cursor option from the stored
10 model selection, preserving explicit user-cleared values and the existing draft,
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Oonly21mil3d ago

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Re CodeRabbit's outside-diff note on composerDraftStore.ts:1159-1163 (Preserve Cursor options when another provider becomes unavailable): it's real, but it's already on main and outside this PR, so I'm leaving it out here.

This PR doesn't change composerDraftStore.ts. The modelOptions fallback is the same on main (composerDraftStore.ts:1143-1147 at 5f64c5e).
The fallback is all-or-nothing. If the draft holds options for any instance, the thread's and project's options are skipped for every instance, so modelOptions?.[selectedInstanceId] in useComposerProviderModel comes back empty for the instance the composer falls back to.
That affects every provider, not just Cursor. A Codex or Claude thread with a stored effort loses it the same way, and a Cursor model that's still in the catalog does too. This PR only covers Cursor's stored model when the catalog no longer lists it.

The fix is a per-instance merge: draft entries win for their own instance, stored options fill the other instances, and options the user cleared stay cleared. I can open that as a separate follow-up PR.

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The follow-up offered above is open at #33090: draft options now win only for their own provider instance, and the thread's (else the project's) stored options fill the others, so switching providers no longer drops the thread's stored effort.

Its description covers how it relates to open #24619 and #16546, which touch the same lines.

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Merge upstream main into fix/i16526-composer-shows-cursor-auto-for-a-threaddb1b23f
fix(web): re-picking a model whose save failed saves it again61fb130
test(web): drop the plan mode input main removed from the Cursor send teste24345a

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Merged main into this branch to clear the conflict, in db1b23f9a5. The only conflict was in useComposerSelection.ts, where main's save-on-pick (#31739) and this PR both moved the thread ref; the merge keeps one. Main covers none of this PR's changes, so nothing was dropped.

Two follow-ups on top of the merge:

61fb13080d: main now saves a composer pick on the thread right away, and this PR makes re-picking the shown model leave its options alone. That re-pick now also runs main's save, so a pick whose save failed is saved again. A browser test covers it.
e24345a15c: the Cursor send test drops the plan mode input main removed.

Re-checked on the merged head with the same catalog stand-in: the composer still shows the stored claude-opus-5-5 as Unavailable with effort: medium, where main shows Auto with no effort control. The description has the new before and after screenshots.

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1	$ git show main:apps/web/src/modelSelection.ts > src/modelSelection.ts # main 0f13d2ccbd source, head's test file
2	$ vp test run src/modelSelection.test.ts -t "cursor\|Cursor" --reporter=verbose 2>&1 \| grep -E "✓\|×\|Tests "
3	× \|unit\| src/modelSelection.test.ts > instance-scoped model selection > cursor catalog gaps > preserves a selected model when a catalog refresh no longer contains it 7ms
4	× \|unit\| src/modelSelection.test.ts > instance-scoped model selection > cursor catalog gaps > adds the selected missing model as an unavailable option 3ms
5	✓ \|unit\| src/modelSelection.test.ts > instance-scoped model selection > cursor catalog gaps > does not resurrect a hidden model when the raw catalog omits it 1ms
6	× \|unit\| src/modelSelection.test.ts > instance-scoped model selection > sends a Cursor thread's stored model and options when the catalog lacks them 1ms
7	Tests 3 failed \| 1 passed \| 41 skipped (45)

1	$ vp test run src/modelSelection.test.ts -t "cursor\|Cursor" --reporter=verbose 2>&1 \| grep -E "✓\|×\|Tests " # head e24345a15c
2	✓ \|unit\| src/modelSelection.test.ts > instance-scoped model selection > cursor catalog gaps > preserves a selected model when a catalog refresh no longer contains it 2ms
3	✓ \|unit\| src/modelSelection.test.ts > instance-scoped model selection > cursor catalog gaps > adds the selected missing model as an unavailable option 1ms
4	✓ \|unit\| src/modelSelection.test.ts > instance-scoped model selection > cursor catalog gaps > does not resurrect a hidden model when the raw catalog omits it 0ms
5	✓ \|unit\| src/modelSelection.test.ts > instance-scoped model selection > sends a Cursor thread's stored model and options when the catalog lacks them 1ms
6	Tests 4 passed \| 41 skipped (45)