Agents & Machines
setSeatMode
Set Seat Mode
Set HOW one of your agent seats runs once a lane lands on it: the fast-or-thinking dial, the model tier, and the reasoning effort.
Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "put the Claude seat on thinking", and it calls setSeatMode.
Example call
The MCP tools/call params, with the required arguments only.
{
"arguments": {
"profile": "<profile>",
"seat": "<seat>"
},
"name": "setSeatMode"
}Arguments
modelunknownoptionalModel tier this seat defaults to, as the vendor's own id. null clears it so each box keeps its own; omit to leave the tier as it is.profilestringrequiredHow this seat runs: "thinking", "fast", or "off" to stop governing it and leave every box its local config.reasoningEffortstring | nulloptionalExplicit reasoning effort, overriding what the profile implies. Omit to follow the profile (preferred); null clears an override.seatstringrequiredWhich seat to set. "cursor" is refused: its settings share a file with its sign-in credential, so no machine converges it.
Returns
The registry does not declare a return shape.
Ask for it
The Cloud routes these requests to this verb.
- put the Claude seat on thinking
- pin the fleet to Opus
- set the codex seat to fast
- stop managing the claude seat's model
- what model do my agents run
- turn seat mode off
Pair it with
The verbs that finish the job.
Questions
What does setSeatMode do?
Set HOW one of your agent seats runs once a lane lands on it: the fast-or-thinking dial, the model tier, and the reasoning effort. It is one of the tools The Cloud MCP server gives every connected AI.
How do I use setSeatMode from Claude or ChatGPT?
Connect your AI to The Cloud at https://mcp.thecloud.so/mcp and sign in once. Then ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "put the Claude seat on thinking", and it calls setSeatMode.
Is setSeatMode safe to let an AI call?
setSeatMode changes your workspace. What an AI creates is Private until you share it.
Connect
One endpoint gives your AI this tool and every other one: connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Gemini, read what The Cloud is, or see pricing.