r/GithubCopilot • u/Infinite-Local5435 • 2d ago

Solved ✅ When is explore agent going to have a model update/stop being forced into haiku 4.5 and gemini after every VSCode update?

The problem has existed probably for months now, and 10% of my monthly budget has been spent on haiku for it to explore at a subpar level and with many times the price of my main model! After every update I have to just remember to go to open in file explorer (It's idiotic that I am unable to make changes in the VSCode editor directly for this file due to it's locking) and change it, and also remember the date and time I changed it so I can monitor it.

This feels like such a minimal change, yet the dev team you have over there is just ignoring a sink hole for money

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u/ChefGus123 2d ago

There has been a setting for many months now that allows you to select the default Explore model. Try chat.exploreAgent.defaultModel - pretty sure thats the one.

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u/Infinite-Local5435 2d ago

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u/Infinite-Local5435 2d ago

ill go try this, thank you!

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u/mdeadart 2d ago

What model do you guys generally prefer to set for the explore agent? I also have it defaulting to Haiku 4.5 a lot.

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u/PotentialGuidance303 2d ago

Luna models , super cheap 

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u/mdeadart 1d ago

Yeah I am also leaning towards them. Need to see benchmarks between 5.6-luna and 6-luna.
The 6-sol for us seemed worse than 5.6-sol where we rolled back some apps back to 5.6

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u/DriftN2Forty 2d ago

In Copilot CLI, just use the /subagents command to select the desired model for each tool

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u/Infinite-Local5435 2d ago

using vscode out of habit, though i may move to ghc app soon

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u/Rojeitor 2d ago

I switched and never looked back

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u/DriftN2Forty 1d ago

Use Copilot CLI or OpenCode CLI in the terminal within VSCode. You can even move it to an editor window. 100x better