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

Simon Willison's llm CLI just shipped reasoning traces and server-side tools — practical upgrades for developers building with frontier models.

Reporting by Simon Willison 1 min brief
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Why it matters

The llm open-source CLI tool gains production-grade features (reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses integration, server-side tool handling, logging) that make it easier for practitioners to work with reasoning models and deploy AI workflows at scale.

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10 to know

  1. New feature: reasoning traces support

  2. OpenAI Responses integration added

  3. Server-side tools capability shipped

  4. Smarter logging improvements

  5. Simon Willison's llm project (widely used by AI practitioners)

  6. Developer tooling update, not a model release

  7. Reasoning traces support added

  8. OpenAI Responses integration

  9. Server-side tools support

  10. Simon Willison's LLM CLI tool (open-source, widely used by practitioners)

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