> I’m underwhelmed by how Anthropic is presenting the behavior of their application. If you ever need a record of the logic a used by YOUR AGENT during a session.

Nope, not your agent, if you're not running it locally. You just get to use it in whatever way they allow (also see the whole OpenClaw backlash and claude -p changes), unless there'd be regulation and laws around this (which there aren't and would be lobbied against anyways).

> Getting the full thinking output requires an enterprise agreement.

If you truly need it, then that's a (costly) option. Seems like they're largely doing this to prevent other AI foundries from doing as much distillation and stealing their CoT output en masse.

Luckily more open models don't generally do that.

Edit: If you still need something decently capable in the cloud, I’d suggest GLM, DeepSeek, MiMo or Kimi or Minimax, maaaybe sometimes Mistral for a simple EU subscription. Or look at all the pay-per-token options on OpenRouter, though be mindful of quantization.

For running something locally Qwen 3.6 35B A3B is presently a decent starting point but it will be rather limited, either way you can look up the Unsloth quants on HuggingFace for something like llama.cpp or Ollama or LM Studio.

All will work with OpenCode and Kilo Code, and most other tools. Can also try with Claude Code, I made a tool for that too: https://ccode.kronis.dev/ (or just set the env variables and maybe some aliases for something close enough), but frankly OpenCode is nice nowadays.

They would rather spend time and focus hardening against open models stealing their intelligence than make their tooling better for the people who use them.

Proprietary technology is fun /s

What a waste of time