# Source: https://developers.openai.com/resources/guide/reasoning-best-practices-guide.md

# Reasoning best practices

> Prompting and optimization tips for reasoning models

- Type: Guide
- Tags: reasoning
- URL: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/reasoning-best-practices
- Created: 2025-08-03
- Updated: 2025-08-13

## Summary
Best practices for prompting reasoning models — reasoning, planning, tool use, structured outputs.