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.

Receipt

• https://cursor.com/docs/release-notes/ide#oct-14-2026
• https://cursor.com/docs/cli/changelog#oct-15-2026
• https://cursor.com/docs/cli/changelog#oct-22-2026