If I had the GPU size, hook it up to llama.cpp and setup the --reasoning-budget and reasoning-message; Most of that additional reasoning is a lot of garbage and you can redirect it to useful output.
It's specific to the harness. Using dynamic context pruning, the budget cuts it off after a select amount of tokens and the budget message tells the model to use subgents to finish whatever it's thinking about
llama.cpp uses a hard cutoff. The agent then does "something" that is specific to the agent's implementation and configuration. It might summarize and then "finish the thought" with a different model, and then resubmit the prompt to the llama.cpp API endpoint with <think>..</think> prefilled. The primary model then infers the remainder of the reply.