From 66e6fb6c79e6f3d1bbc6f714ba89c8c070f83096 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hua Audio <jiahua.zhang@kuleuven.be>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2026 14:17:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] feat(agent) fallback to reasoning content (#992)

---
 pkg/agent/loop.go | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pkg/agent/loop.go b/pkg/agent/loop.go
index e5d9c757b..9a54f5077 100644
--- a/pkg/agent/loop.go
+++ b/pkg/agent/loop.go
@@ -1055,9 +1055,12 @@ func (al *AgentLoop) runLLMIteration(
 				"target_channel": al.targetReasoningChannelID(opts.Channel),
 				"channel":        opts.Channel,
 			})
-		// Check if no tool calls - we're done
+		// Check if no tool calls - then check reasoning content if any
 		if len(response.ToolCalls) == 0 {
 			finalContent = response.Content
+			if finalContent == "" && response.ReasoningContent != "" {
+				finalContent = response.ReasoningContent
+			}
 			logger.InfoCF("agent", "LLM response without tool calls (direct answer)",
 				map[string]any{
 					"agent_id":      agent.ID,