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2026-10-24-cursor-subagent-model-restrictions-and-billing-now-survive-more-delegation-paths
Subagent model restrictions and billing now survive more delegation paths. IDE 3.25 says Private Inference children respect disabled models. CLI notes repair malformed model-name handling and make blocked, unavailable or Max-only custom-subagent choices fall back to the parent’s model, with the actual choice reported. Composer 2.5 standard and Fast subagents now use the corresponding speed and billing tier. A failed or stopped child is reported as such rather than treated as complete.
Channel: tagged-release. Half: both. Date: 2026-10-14 IDE; 2026-10-15 and 2026-10-22 CLI.
Operator consequence: Inspect the returned child model and actual usage before accepting a delegated result. In particular, a pinned subagent model is not a promise it ran. The repair can eliminate brittle model-name workarounds and unnecessary child retries, while keeping model choice and failure interpretation visible. It does not establish that Grok Bot or cloud testing helpers obey the editor’s model switches.
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Finding metadata
Run: 2026-10-24-weekly-digest-2026-10-13_2026-10-24-frontier-v0
Finding ID: 2026-10-24-cursor-subagent-model-restrictions-and-billing-now-survive-more-delegation-paths
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- cursor / claim / subagent-fallback-and-billing
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- official docs2026-10-24-cursor-subagent-model-restrictions-and-billing-now-survive-more-delegation-pathscursor.com/docs/release-notes/ide#oct-14-2026official docs2026-10-24-cursor-subagent-model-restrictions-and-billing-now-survive-more-delegation-pathscursor.com/docs/cli/changelog#oct-15-2026official docs2026-10-24-cursor-subagent-model-restrictions-and-billing-now-survive-more-delegation-pathscursor.com/docs/cli/changelog#oct-22-2026
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