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They changed it with the release on July 1 Explore now inherits the model, it isn't always haiku.

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/changelog#2-1-198

> The built-in Explore agent now inherits the main session’s model (capped at opus) instead of running on haiku

Urgh, thanks for the heads up. I guess I need to be explicit about my choice of model now.

Yeah, I was surprised. I had Claude make a skill to extract the explore agent from Claude Code, but set the model back to haiku. Here it is if it's helpful:

https://gist.github.com/joshcartme/dd71df7b4c51c356760b28d7f...

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