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Decision BriefSimon Willisontoolmodelagentproduct2026-08-04

New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging

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What Changed

<p>I released <a href="https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/changelog.html#v0-32">LLM 0.32</a> this morning, the most significant new version of LLM since the initial launch of the project. The new version includes support for visible reasoning traces, server-side provider tools, redesigned content-ad

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