diff --git a/packages/catalog/src/discovery/cursor.ts b/packages/catalog/src/discovery/cursor.ts
index 880aefec5..65d6ca645 100644
--- a/packages/catalog/src/discovery/cursor.ts
+++ b/packages/catalog/src/discovery/cursor.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@ const CURSOR_GET_USABLE_MODELS_PATH = "/agent.v1.AgentService/GetUsableModels";
 const DEFAULT_CONTEXT_WINDOW = 200_000;
 const DEFAULT_MAX_TOKENS = 64_000;
 
+/**
+ * Model-id families whose native catalogs (anthropic, openai/openai-codex,
+ * google) are multimodal. Cursor-only or text-only families (`composer-*`,
+ * `grok-code-*`) intentionally stay outside this pattern.
+ */
+const CURSOR_MULTIMODAL_ID_PATTERN = /claude|gemini|gpt-|codex/;
+
 const OptionalDisplayNameSchema = type("unknown").pipe(raw => (typeof raw === "string" ? raw : undefined));
 const CursorAliasesSchema = type("unknown").pipe(raw => {
 	if (Array.isArray(raw)) {
@@ -292,7 +299,7 @@ function normalizeCursorModel(
 		provider: "cursor",
 		baseUrl: baseUrlOverride ?? CURSOR_DEFAULT_BASE_URL,
 		reasoning,
-		input: ["text"],
+		input: inferInputFromCursorId(id),
 		cost: { input: 0, output: 0, cacheRead: 0, cacheWrite: 0 },
 		contextWindow: DEFAULT_CONTEXT_WINDOW,
 		maxTokens: DEFAULT_MAX_TOKENS,
@@ -312,3 +319,18 @@ function pickModelDisplayName(model: CursorModelDetailsValue, fallbackId: string
 	}
 	return fallbackId;
 }
+
+/**
+ * Infers input modalities for Cursor models without a bundled reference.
+ *
+ * `GetUsableModels` carries no per-model modality metadata, so classification
+ * falls back to the model family: families that are multimodal in OMP's own
+ * native catalogs accept images, everything else stays text-only. Mirrors
+ * `inferInputFromGeminiId` in ./gemini.ts.
+ */
+function inferInputFromCursorId(id: string): ("text" | "image")[] {
+	if (CURSOR_MULTIMODAL_ID_PATTERN.test(id.toLowerCase())) {
+		return ["text", "image"];
+	}
+	return ["text"];
+}
diff --git a/packages/catalog/test/cursor-discovery.test.ts b/packages/catalog/test/cursor-discovery.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f62b7c37c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/catalog/test/cursor-discovery.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+import { afterAll, beforeAll, describe, expect, it } from "bun:test";
+import * as http2 from "node:http2";
+import { create, toBinary } from "@bufbuild/protobuf";
+// Import from source, not the package specifier: the workspace `node_modules`
+// copy resolves to the primary checkout, not this worktree.
+import { fetchCursorUsableModels } from "../src/discovery/cursor";
+import { GetUsableModelsResponseSchema, ModelDetailsSchema } from "../src/discovery/cursor-gen/agent_pb";
+import type { ModelSpec } from "../src/types";
+
+const FIXTURE_MODEL_IDS = [
+	// Reference-less ids from families whose native catalogs are multimodal.
+	"claude-opus-4-8-99999999",
+	"gpt-5.5-codex-20991231",
+	"gemini-4-pro-exp",
+	// Reference-less ids from text-only families.
+	"composer-3",
+	"grok-code-fast-2",
+	// Bundled-reference ids: the reference stays authoritative.
+	"claude-4.5-opus-high",
+	"claude-4.6-opus-high",
+	"composer-1",
+];
+
+let server: http2.Http2Server;
+let baseUrl: string;
+
+beforeAll(async () => {
+	const response = create(GetUsableModelsResponseSchema, {
+		models: FIXTURE_MODEL_IDS.map(modelId => create(ModelDetailsSchema, { modelId })),
+	});
+	const payload = Buffer.from(toBinary(GetUsableModelsResponseSchema, response));
+
+	server = http2.createServer();
+	server.on("stream", (stream: http2.ServerHttp2Stream, headers: http2.IncomingHttpHeaders) => {
+		stream.on("data", () => {});
+		stream.on("end", () => {
+			if (headers[":path"] !== "/agent.v1.AgentService/GetUsableModels") {
+				stream.respond({ ":status": 404 });
+				stream.end();
+				return;
+			}
+			stream.respond({ ":status": 200, "content-type": "application/proto" });
+			stream.end(payload);
+		});
+	});
+	await new Promise<void>(resolve => server.listen(0, "127.0.0.1", resolve));
+	const address = server.address();
+	if (!address || typeof address === "string") {
+		throw new Error("expected http2 fixture server to bind a tcp port");
+	}
+	baseUrl = `http://127.0.0.1:${address.port}`;
+});
+
+afterAll(() => {
+	server?.close();
+});
+
+async function discover(): Promise<Map<string, ModelSpec<"cursor-agent">>> {
+	const models = await fetchCursorUsableModels({ apiKey: "test-key", baseUrl });
+	expect(models).not.toBeNull();
+	return new Map((models ?? []).map(model => [model.id, model]));
+}
+
+describe("cursor discovery input modalities (issue #4726)", () => {
+	it("classifies reference-less multimodal-family models as text+image", async () => {
+		const byId = await discover();
+		expect(byId.get("claude-opus-4-8-99999999")?.input).toEqual(["text", "image"]);
+		expect(byId.get("gpt-5.5-codex-20991231")?.input).toEqual(["text", "image"]);
+		expect(byId.get("gemini-4-pro-exp")?.input).toEqual(["text", "image"]);
+	});
+
+	it("keeps reference-less text-only families text-only", async () => {
+		const byId = await discover();
+		expect(byId.get("composer-3")?.input).toEqual(["text"]);
+		expect(byId.get("grok-code-fast-2")?.input).toEqual(["text"]);
+	});
+
+	it("keeps bundled references authoritative for input modalities", async () => {
+		const byId = await discover();
+		// Bundled cursor references carry their own input classification; the
+		// id-based inference must not override it in either direction.
+		expect(byId.get("claude-4.5-opus-high")?.input).toEqual(["text", "image"]);
+		expect(byId.get("claude-4.6-opus-high")?.input).toEqual(["text"]);
+		expect(byId.get("composer-1")?.input).toEqual(["text"]);
+	});
+
+	it("preserves fallback defaults for reference-less models", async () => {
+		const byId = await discover();
+		const spec = byId.get("claude-opus-4-8-99999999");
+		expect(spec?.provider).toBe("cursor");
+		expect(spec?.api).toBe("cursor-agent");
+		expect(spec?.contextWindow).toBe(200_000);
+		expect(spec?.maxTokens).toBe(64_000);
+		expect(spec?.cost).toEqual({ input: 0, output: 0, cacheRead: 0, cacheWrite: 0 });
+	});
+});