MiniMax M3 thinking shows in messages problem

[kev8249]

What happened?

Hello, I have made following request to get some information: "A. Latest up to date documentation and B. The actual state of the current installation"
I have used DeepSeek V4 Flash High to get the information.
Here is the DS response:

Here's the summary in English for the supporter:

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Issue: MiniMax M3 thinking content leaks into normal chat response instead of rendering in Kilo's separate thinking/reasoning UI block.

Current config (~/.config/kilo/kilo.jsonc):

• Custom provider gmi-cloud via @ai-sdk/openai-compatible at https://api.gmi-serving.com/v1
• MiniMax-M3 configured as a custom model with reasoning enabled
• Variant adaptive-thinking uses "enable_thinking": true and "reasoning_split": true

Config details for the model:

"MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3": {
  "name": "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3",
  "reasoning": true,
  "variants": {
    "adaptive-thinking": {
      "reasoning_split": true,
      "enable_thinking": true,
      "reasoningEffort": "medium"
    }
  }
}

Observed behavior:

1. MiniMax's reasoning/thinking appears as plain text inline in the response, not parsed into the collapsible thinking block (as happens with Claude or DeepSeek)
2. The model config UI's "Thinking type" dropdown only offers enabled/disabled/(not set) — MiniMax API rejects enabled with a 400 error and requires adaptive. Workaround is manual config editing.
3. Even with thinking: { "type": "adaptive" } set manually, reasoning content still isn't separated into the thinking block.

Matches known bugs:

• MiniMax M3 reasoning/thinking content leaks into normal response text instead of rendering in a thinking block kilocode#11203
• [FEATURE]: Expose reasoning (thinking) toggle for MiniMax M-series models kilocode#11235

Environment:

• Kilo CLI + VS Code extension on Windows
• Config sources: ~/.config/kilo/kilo.json (MCP servers only), ~/.config/kilo/kilo.jsonc (providers, agents, permissions, models)
• MiniMax accessed through custom GMI-Cloud provider, not the built-in MiniMax provider

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Area

Mayor / Chat

Town ID (if known)

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Steps to reproduce

Simple steps to reproduce.
I have set up GMI Cloud as Provider.
I have set MiniMax M3 as reasoning - yes ; name - adaptive thinking; activate reasoning - yes ; style of reasoning f.e. z.ai - adaptive; split reasoning - yes ; reasoning effort - medium ; output effort - not set; thinking over chat presets - true
I have sent a message where I tried to enforce thinking for the model. I have evaluated it several times.
Reasoning / Thinking is in the content itself in .... parameters but not special sent in a reasoning tag. It is sent in the context tag, as far as I could debug it with chatGPT, then I got bored.

Relevant logs or screenshots

No errors message available :/. Just Feature bug.

[kev8249]

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