Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
0Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ModelsArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.281,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
The model picker is the list you choose an AI model from. Every place that opens it used to pass a setting called skipSettingsWrite, and it has now been removed everywhere. That includes:
the picker headed "Models reported by the cloud session. Your pick applies to that session."
Separately, in the /config settings list, clicking an empty area of a row now selects that row. Before, those clicks were ignored.
Why
The picker may now save your choice to your settings on its own, where before every caller told it not to. The existing route that saves a pick as your default for new sessions is still there. Rows in /config are also easier to click.
How sure we are
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtThe finding does not settle whether picking a model now saves it to your settings in cases where it did not before.
Anthropic's release notes agreeFixed Alt+T and /config offering to turn thinking off on models that can't; thinking now stays on there, with a one-line reason in place of…
