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The benchmark results look promising when compared to Opus 4.8, but for agentic usecases it's lacking images as tool call result types. Giving the model a tool to take screenshots and verify its work is my main usecase for vision models, but this is more oriented towards "build a website that looks like this" type prompts. Hopefully we'll see this by release.

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This is only a problem with OpenAI Chat Completions API. With OpenAI Responses API and Anthropic Messages API a tool output can be text, image or file.

Oh, you're right! From the responses API reference:

> For function_call_output / custom_tool_call_output items. The output of the tool call, either a plain string or a

> list of input_text / input_image content parts. With the deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp model, input_image parts in

> the output are processed as real images; with other models they are replaced with a placeholder text.

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