Somewhat major architectural proposal of making th...
# proj-agentl
limited-student-10747
10/29/2026, 8:11 PMSomewhat major architectural proposal of making the think tool optional and off by default https://github.com/OpenHands/software-agent-sdk/pull/6159
The motivation behind this is I noticed that deepseek flash was going to think to a very frequently and often overthinking when it used it. I ran a small swebench eval and it indeed reduced cost by 10% will not hurting accuracy.
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elegant-crayon-70232
10/29/2026, 9:39 PMthe idea is to trust models built in thinking now that they have gotten so good? That makes sense to me
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calm-artist-7206
10/30/2026, 12:32 AMFor sure, it’s been many LLM eras… I think the ThinkTool is provided to the agent since Sonnet 3.7, ~March 2025 or so 😅
calm-artist-7206
10/30/2026, 12:36 AMThe funny thing for a while has been that OpenAI models occasionally use it with raw reasoning, apparently - I mean, OpenAI doesn’t send raw reasoning to the user, it sends nothing or a “cleaned up” summary; but occasionally GPTs sent it themselves in the ThinkTool ❤️
calm-artist-7206
10/30/2026, 12:38 AMRe: the PR, approved
I left a tiny comment on a field description
One other thought: maybe we can use
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limited-student-10747
10/30/2026, 1:42 AMHah, LLMs do love to say what isn’t true anymore 😅 thanks for checking!
And yeah, this felt a bit nostalgic to me as well!