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Thinking context management for tool use
A tool-use history policy that retains reasoning during tool-related turns and discards it when a new user message is introduced.
Also called Thinking Context Management.
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Historical reasoning content is discarded only when a new user message is introduced to the conversation.
usedinference servingin DeepSeek-V3.2DeepSeek
Historical reasoning content is discarded only when a new user message is introduced to the conversation. If only tool-related messages ... are appended, the reasoning content is retained throughout the interaction.
usedinference servingin DeepSeek-V3.2DeepSeek
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Other methods under inference & serving :: context management.
Discard-all context managementPreserved thinking history modeExcluding prior thinking from conversation historyContext compactionContext foldingDiscard-75%Preserve thinkingTrajectory summarization and rollout re-initiationContext management methodContext management strategyDiscarding tool-call historyHierarchical context managementKeep-recent-kMemory compressionModality-specific deploymentSummary-based context compressionTest-time context management for extending token budgets