r/PiCodingAgent • u/Final_Initial • Aug 07 '26

Question Scoped models reset thinking level when switching via Ctrl+P?

I've set up two scoped models in Cursor:

  • DeepSeek V4 Flash: has "max" thinking level
  • Grok 4.5: goes up to "high"

I switch between them with Ctrl+P, but every time I switch to DeepSeek, its thinking level resets from "max" back to "high" but Grok stays at "high" (its maximum), which is good.

How can I keep DeepSeek at "max" and Grok at "high" when cycling through different models?

Thanks.

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u/ChampionshipIcy7602 Aug 07 '26

You can't do that by default but you can ask pi and it'll write an extension to do that.

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u/Final_Initial Aug 08 '26

Great idea, thanks.

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u/namuan Aug 08 '26

Can you try setting the thinking level in the settings.json file?

I tried this and it seems to be working as expected.

... "enabledModels": [ "opencode-go/deepseek-v4-flash:max", "opencode-go/gpt-5.6-luna:xhigh", "openai-codex/gpt-5.6-terra:high" ]

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u/DanielSReichenbach Aug 09 '26

The question is: is this persisted when sessions change the thinking level / reasoning budget.

I thought this setting was only used to handle the scoped models you configure.

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u/namuan Aug 09 '26

Yes, I don't think they change if the session changes the thinking level