1. A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:identifying a configuration for a plurality of control resource sets, wherein the configuration for the plurality of control resource sets comprises an updated active quasi-co-location assumption for a control resource set of the plurality of control resource sets;
determining a priority order for monitoring the plurality of control resource sets, wherein the control resource set associated with the updated active quasi-co-location assumption corresponds to a highest priority of the priority order; and
monitoring for downlink transmissions in at least a subset of the plurality of control resource sets based at least in part on the priority order and a number of active quasi-co-location assumptions for the plurality of control resource sets exceeding a threshold number of active quasi-co-location assumptions for the UE based at least in part on the updated active quasi-co-location assumption.