My post initially complained about the lack of reasoning traces in the API, but it turns out I was wrong about that! You can get back reasoning summaries with "reasoning": {"summary": "auto"} – I've updated that section of my post to describe that here: https://
simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/7/gpt
-5/#thinking-traces-in-the-api
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