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	az226 19 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Pric... How did you get the reasoning trace? Is it the actual one or the summarized one?
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simonw 19 hours ago [–]

It's the summarized one returned by their API.

Piping the visible reasoning trace through their token counter API (I use https://tools.simonwillison.net/claude-token-counter for that) counts 27,888 tokens, so it's definitely a summary of the 128,000 actual token trace.

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