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title: "New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/new-release-of-llm-adds-support-for-reasoning-traces-openai-responses-server-side-tools-and-smart-9ycxwoqvp
source_url: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/4/new-release-of-llm
type: article
source: "Simon Willison"
published: 2026-08-05T00:03:33.757Z
updated: 2026-08-05T00:03:55.717Z
tags: ["python", "llm", "ai-agents", "openai", "mcp"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 7
comments: 1
language: en
---

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

**[Simon Willison](https://daily.dev/sources/simonwillison)** · 6 min read · 7 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

LLM 0.32 is a major release of Simon Willison's LLM CLI and Python library. Key additions include visible reasoning traces sent to stderr, server-side tool support (OpenAI CodeInterpreter, WebSearch; Anthropic WebSearch, WebFetch, CodeExecution, AnthropicMCP), a new `llm openai endpoint` one-liner for hitting any OpenAI-compatible API, and a redesigned content-addressable SQLite logging system inspired by Git. The Python API gains a `messages=[]` parameter for passing full conversation history directly, plus a streaming events system that handles reasoning, text, tool calls, and image attachments as typed events. A new `llm-chat-completions-server` plugin exposes LLM as an OpenAI-compatible server. Updated plugins include llm-anthropic 0.26 with Claude 5 support. The release also positions LLM as an emerging agent framework, with tool chains that can pause for human approval and resume from stored history.

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**@agustinbarrientos** · 0 upvotes

> Do you see the agent loop becoming a first-class abstraction in LLM, or do you want the event protocol to stay flexible enough for people to build their own?

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