For AI agents, where should the heavier reasoning budget go first: before actions, after state changes, or before the final explanation?

One thing I find interesting about reasoning models is that the hard question is often budget placement, not headline capability. Ring-2.6-1T is a trillion-parameter reasoning model for agent workflows with high and xhigh reasoning-effort modes. If an AI agent only gets a heavier reasoning pass in one place, I would put it before it takes an external action, after it updates state, or before it gives the final explanation to a user. Where would you spend that budget first? submitted by /u/babyb01 [link] [comments.