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DeepSeek V4 Pro + Cline: infinite reasoning loop + suggestion to switch to Opus 4?

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Hey,

I'm running Cline with DeepSeek V4 Pro (direct API, OpenAI Compatible provider) and I'm getting a weird behavior on complex tasks that I can't fully explain.

What happens:

  1. Cline starts the task and generates a huge amount of reasoning tokens (lots of `...` scrolling for a while)

  2. After some time, Cline stops and displays a message suggesting I switch to an Anthropic model like Opus 4 for complex tasks

  3. If I click "Proceed anyway", it feels like the model restarts its reasoning from scratch — as if the accumulated context is lost or ignored — creating a kind of loop

My questions:

- Is this a known issue related to `reasoning_content` not being properly passed back by Cline between turns?

- Does "Proceed anyway" clear the reasoning context, or does it just dismiss the warning?

- Has anyone found a workaround? (disabling thinking mode? going through OpenRouter?)

- Is the Opus 4 suggestion message hardcoded in Cline or dynamic based on token count?

My current setup:

- Cline (latest version)

- Provider: OpenAI Compatible

- Base URL: https://api.deepseek.com

- Model: deepseek-v4-pro

Thanks in advance

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u/Immediate-Practice48 — 11 days ago