IMHO I've never found the entire reasoning chain that particularly useful for my work. For me having a summary is honestly better from a context management perspective. I understand why they would encrypt it though, because those reasoning chains are VERY useful if you're distilling the model.

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stavros a day ago | parent [-]

The summary doesn't go into the context, it's for human consumption. The CoT itself goes into the context.

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nomel a day ago | parent [-]

From my experiments with Opus and Sonnet (at least the models where you can still see COT), only the last two COT go into context.

	▲	anticensor a day ago \| parent [-]
		Whereas on ChatGPT, _all_ reasoning traces and all branches (including the unselected ones) go into context.