OpenAI o4-mini with reasoning summary

Set reasoning_summary to auto on o4-mini to surface its reasoning summary while comparing NVDA to TSLA.

OpenAI has announced retirement of this model on October 23, 2026. It remains available until then; plan a replacement using the current model guidance.

Add the following code to your Python file

reasoning_summary_example.py
from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIResponses
from agno.tools.websearch import WebSearchTools

# Setup the reasoning Agent
agent = Agent(
    model=OpenAIResponses(
        id="o4-mini",
        reasoning_summary="auto",  # Requesting a reasoning summary
    ),
    tools=[WebSearchTools(enable_news=False)],
    instructions="Use tables to display the analysis",
    markdown=True,
)

agent.print_response(
    "Write a brief report comparing NVDA to TSLA",
    stream=True,
)

Set up your virtual environment

uv venv --python 3.12
source .venv/bin/activate

Install dependencies

uv pip install -U agno openai ddgs

Export your OpenAI API key

  export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key_here"

Run Agent

python reasoning_summary_example.py