haha, just in case, I am at commit d1f82e382, which is 5 days old, which might be important. Here is what my claud said about the issue and fix:

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Bug: llama.cpp doesn't extract reasoning/thinking content from MiniMax model responses. The opening tag is missing and thinking text appears inline in content instead of reasoning_content.

Root cause: In common/chat-diff-analyzer.cpp line 309, compare_reasoning_presence() detects the reasoning start tag as \n (with trailing newline) using trim_leading_whitespace(). But the generation prompt calculated by diff has without the trailing \n (it gets stripped as a common suffix). This mismatch means the PEG parser's prefix() function can't find and strip the tag, so reasoning is never parsed.

Fix: In common/chat-diff-analyzer.cpp line 309, change trim_leading_whitespace to trim_whitespace so reasoning.start becomes (no trailing whitespace), matching how the generation prompt represents it. Also update the MiniMax test in tests/test-chat.cpp to prepend to the tool call test input (forced-open thinking requires closing the think block) and add a reasoning extraction test.
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Regarding the `--reasoning off` making work (good for RP, bad for coding), the fix was to always add both thinking tags at the start if this is set to off, then model thinks the reasoning is over.