New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging
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Terms in this piece · Glossary
LLM — A large language model — the neural network behind tools like Claude and ChatGPT, trained on huge amounts of text to predict what comes next.
MCP — The Model Context Protocol — an open standard that lets any AI assistant plug into any tool or data source without custom integration code.
Why it matters
Server-side tools and MCPThe Model Context Protocol — an open standard that lets any AI assistant plug into any tool or data source without custom integration code.Full definition → become one-flag operations from the terminal, and reasoning traces are separated from piped output so existing shell pipelines keep working.
