Add extended thinking examples (multi-turn + tool use)#166
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Adds two new examples demonstrating common thinking patterns that are currently missing from the examples directory (requested in anthropics#85): - thinking_multi_turn.rb: Shows how to carry thinking blocks forward across conversation turns, a common gotcha where the API rejects requests that strip thinking blocks from prior assistant messages. - thinking_with_tools.rb: Shows extended thinking combined with tool use, including the three-step flow of request → tool execution → tool result with all content blocks preserved.
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Summary
Adds two new example files for extended thinking, as requested in #85:
thinking_multi_turn.rb— Demonstrates carrying thinking blocks forward across conversation turns. This is a common gotcha: the API rejects requests that stripthinkingorredacted_thinkingblocks from prior assistant messages. The example shows how to passresponse.contentdirectly as the assistant message content.thinking_with_tools.rb— Demonstrates extended thinking combined with tool use. Shows the three-step flow: initial request with thinking + tools → handle tool call and compute result → send tool result back with all content blocks (thinking + tool_use) preserved.Both files follow existing conventions (
# typed:,require_relative, compact hash braces,Anthropic::Client.new) and live in theexamples/directory which is hand-maintained.Test plan
ruby examples/thinking_multi_turn.rbwithANTHROPIC_API_KEYsetruby examples/thinking_with_tools.rbwithANTHROPIC_API_KEYset