feat: Add reasoning support for Cohere chat generator

[ChinmayBansal]

Related Issues

• fixes Cohere - reasoning support #2179
• fixes parent issue in haystack repo: Enable/refine reasoning support haystack#9700

Proposed Changes:

This PR implements reasoning support for Cohere's chat generator following the parent issue #9700 requirements. The implementation adds the ability to extract and store model reasoning content in the ReasoningContent field of ChatMessage.

Key Features Added:

• Reasoning extraction function (_extract_reasoning_from_response) that
  supports multiple formats:
  • XML-style tags: <thinking>, <reasoning>
  • Section headers: ## Reasoning, ## Thinking, ## My reasoning
  • Natural language patterns: "Let me think", "Step by step", "First,"
  • Intelligent separator detection to determine reasoning boundaries
• Dual-path response parsing that handles both regular responses and tool
  call scenarios
• Streaming support with custom
  _convert_streaming_chunks_to_chat_message_with_reasoning function
• Tool call compatibility ensuring reasoning works alongside tool calls
  without conflicts
• Content cleaning that removes reasoning markers from the main response
  text
• Length filtering with 30-character minimum threshold to avoid false
  positives

The implementation follows the established patterns from Ollama (#2200) and
Google GenAI (#2212) PRs, ensuring consistency across providers.

How did you test it?

• Unit tests: Added comprehensive test suite (TestReasoningExtraction)
  covering:
  • Various reasoning pattern formats (<thinking>, <reasoning>,
    step-by-step)
  • Edge cases (no reasoning, short reasoning ignored)
  • Natural language reasoning detection
• Integration tests: Added TestCohereChatGeneratorReasoning class with:
  • End-to-end reasoning extraction with Command A Reasoning model
    (lightweight)
  • Mock response testing for consistent behavior
  • Tool call compatibility verification
• Manual verification: All unit tests pass, integration tests show expected
  rate limiting (API working correctly)
• Code quality: All linting (hatch run fmt) and type checking (hatch run test:types) pass

Notes for the reviewer

• The reasoning extraction logic is in _extract_reasoning_from_response()
  function (lines ~355-435)
• Key integration points are in _parse_response() for both regular and tool
  call paths (lines ~194-220)
• Streaming support uses a post-processing approach since Cohere embeds
  reasoning in response text
• Test cases use the lightweight command-a-reasoning-111b-2024-10-03 model as
  recommended
• Implementation handles the Cohere-specific thinking parameter via
  generation_kwargs={"thinking": True}

Checklist

• I have read the contributors guidelines and the code of conduct
• I have updated the related issue with new insights and changes
• I added unit tests and updated the docstrings
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