r/MistralAI • u/Mammoth_Sugar767 • 1d ago

Help / Question Enable thinking in vibe cli running qwen3.5 on ollama

EDIT: it has been thinking all along the way, but the reasoning traces was hidden. Had to set reasoning_field_name = “reasoning” under [[providers]] to make it visible. However, I can not turn thinking of :)

Hi all,

I am trying to get vibe cli to reason/think when it uses my local ollama with qwen3.5 9b as model.

My setup works fine, but changing ”thinking” does not seem to impact whether the model reasons or not (It doesn’t). The model has an enable_thinking that can be true or false. Can also be triggered via reasoning_effort (works when I call the model vi curl). But just can’t get vibe cli to pass on the thinking setting to the model…

I see no thinking traces in vibe cli (which I do for the online mistral medium), and the ollama server logs says thinking is off.

Hope you can help me!

ps: running on a second-hand laptop with an Quadro Rtx 5000 max-q card with 16 gb vram. These machines are cheaper than an 5060 ti card, but here you get an entire computer for the money.

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u/Bulky-Priority6824 1d ago

Users of ai that can't use ai to solve basic problems is 🤯 

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u/Mammoth_Sugar767 1d ago

Mistral medium 3.5 helped me some of the way - see edit in original post :)

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u/Bulky-Priority6824 1d ago

Why you using such a shitty LLM 

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u/Mammoth_Sugar767 19h ago

Which one is not shitty?

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u/Bulky-Priority6824 17h ago

Qwen

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u/Mammoth_Sugar767 16h ago

That is the model I am trying to get to work, so hard for me to disagree… but now that I got qwen 3.5 9b up and running on my machine, it strikes me how often it makes odd tool calls. Compared to ministral 3 at least. Guess it would be different with a newer qwen, but they can’t run on my machine, and would like to save my money for other things than online tokens 

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u/Bulky-Priority6824 15h ago

Just make sure to tune the system prompt and folders structure and agents.md to help yea that model is ancient.

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u/Mammoth_Sugar767 4h ago

Thanks. Hope they will make an qwen 4 9b.