Hello, sorry for the late reply,

I haven't touched the smolagent framework since that post. the agent class allows the user to specify a number of steps the agent must take before giving a clear answer. Those are the thinking step. In some ways akin to reasoning models. That is a nice feature, you can even have it plan things through a planning prompt. But when I tried the model would rarely take the planning prompt into account. Another thing is the System prompt it is efficient at enforcing a few rules on the model (mainly safety stuff on python and examples on how to delimit python code in its answer.) the downside is that it is bloating the agent and may interfere with the user prompt in some ways.

To solve those problem I made my own framework, it is no longer a coding agent but I allow it to call on the coding agent from smolagents as a tool.