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* feat(telemetry): record what kind of exception ended a flow

Flow failures are visible but undiagnosable. Live data shows roughly 17% of
flows ending in outcome=failed, and 72% of AgentExecutor failures completing
in under 200ms - far too fast to be an LLM call - but nothing records what
the failure actually is, so there is no way to tell a real defect from a
user pressing Ctrl-C.

Record the exception's class name as error_type on Flow Completed and Flow
Method Failed. The class name only: str(error) is never read, because it
routinely carries prompts, model output, file paths and credentials. The
isidentifier() check is the allowlist that enforces it - any message text
reaching that argument carries a space or punctuation and is dropped - and
it lives inside Telemetry rather than at the call site so a future caller
cannot bypass it. Method names and flow state remain unrecorded.

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* docs(frontend): point the frontend guides at their edge paths

The frontend guides added in #6686 exist only under edge - they are not in
any frozen version snapshot - but their 80 internal links use the bare
/en/guides/frontend/... form, which resolves against the released versions
where those pages do not exist. mint broken-links fails on every one of
them, which blocks every open PR, not only the one that added them.

Use the /edge/en/... form the repo already uses for other edge-only pages
(concepts/streaming, learn/execution-boundary-hooks). Anchors are preserved.
No page content changes.

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---
title: Reasoning
description: Show the model's thinking in the chat automatically, with no component to build.
icon: brain
mode: "wide"
---
## Thinking, rendered for free
When a reasoning-capable model thinks before it answers, CopilotKit renders that thinking right in the chat. This is the simplest generative-UI pattern in the whole section: there is nothing to build. No hook, no component, no props. Use a reasoning-capable model, keep the streaming wrapper your Flows already have, and the chat surface from the [Overview](/edge/en/guides/frontend/overview) does the rest.
## Use a reasoning-capable model
Reasoning is surfaced automatically by `copilotkit_stream`, which every Flow example already wraps the model call in. The bridge reads the model's reasoning deltas and emits them to the frontend. It is provider-agnostic and works over both of CrewAI's streaming transports, so the only thing you change is the model.
```python
# recipe_flow.py
from crewai.flow.flow import Flow, start
from ag_ui_crewai.sdk import copilotkit_stream, CopilotKitState
from litellm import acompletion
class RecipeFlow(Flow[CopilotKitState]):
@start()
async def chat(self):
response = await copilotkit_stream(
acompletion(
# any reasoning-capable model, e.g. deepseek-reasoner
model="deepseek/deepseek-reasoner",
messages=self.state.messages,
stream=True,
)
)
message = response.choices[0].message
self.state.messages.append(message)
```
Models that emit reasoning over the standard channel include DeepSeek `deepseek-reasoner`, Anthropic extended thinking (Claude), and Gemini thinking, among others. Swap the `model` for one of these and its thinking starts streaming through.
This works the same for both Crews and Flows, since both run their model calls through `copilotkit_stream`.
## Render it
There is no frontend step. The `CopilotChat`, `CopilotSidebar`, or `CopilotPopup` surface you already mounted shows the reasoning as it streams, above the answer it produced.
```tsx
import { CopilotChat } from "@copilotkit/react-core/v2";
<CopilotChat agentId="recipe" />
```
<Note>
There is no `useReasoning` hook and no reasoning component to write. Reasoning is not something you wire up on the frontend; it renders automatically as long as the model emits it.
</Note>
## Related
<CardGroup cols={2}>
<Card title="Generative UI" icon="wand-magic-sparkles" href="/edge/en/guides/frontend/generative-ui">
The full spectrum, from author-controlled to agent-invented UI.
</Card>
<Card title="Agentic Generative UI" icon="list-check" href="/edge/en/guides/frontend/agentic-generative-ui">
Render live agent state as the Flow works.
</Card>
<Card title="Frontend Overview" icon="browser" href="/edge/en/guides/frontend/overview">
Set up the chat surface and runtime.
</Card>
</CardGroup>