GLM-5.2 OpenAI-Compatible API: A Hands-On Guide to Reasoning Effort, Function Calling, and Long-Context Retrieval

Short summary

Practical hands-on guide to integrating Zhipu's GLM-5.2 model via its OpenAI-compatible hosted API instead of running the model locally. Demonstrates production-ready features including reasoning effort control with streamed output, function calling, tool-using agents, and structured JSON extraction. Includes token counting and cost accounting examples so development teams can measure API spending and optimize expenses.

• •Hands-on implementation of GLM-5.2 using hosted OpenAI-compatible API with reusable chat wrapper
• •Covers reasoning effort control, streaming, function calling, tool agents, and structured JSON output
• •Includes token counting and cost accounting for measuring and optimizing API expenses

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