[_fat_santa]

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.

[stavros]

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

[nomel]

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