diff --git a/scripts/frank-default-small.env b/scripts/frank-default-small.env
index 0039554..7843057 100644
--- a/scripts/frank-default-small.env
+++ b/scripts/frank-default-small.env
@@ -39,9 +39,11 @@ ALIAS=frank-default-small
 BIND_ADDR=0.0.0.0
 LISTEN_PORT=52625
 
-# Serving defaults from the model card: 64K context, single slot, f16 KV,
-# context checkpoints, prompt cache. Native MTP depth-4.
-CTX_SIZE=65536
+# Serving: 128K context (user request, 2026-08-18; model card default is
+# 64K), single slot, f16 KV, context checkpoints, prompt cache. Native MTP
+# depth-4. KV at 128K is 8 GiB (64 KiB/token); estimated total ~43 GiB of
+# the 64 GiB SVM pool, leaving ~21 GiB headroom.
+CTX_SIZE=131072
 PARALLEL=1
 BATCH_SIZE=2048
 UBATCH_SIZE=2048
@@ -60,6 +62,10 @@ SPEC_DRAFT_P_SPLIT=0.10
 TEMPERATURE=0.7
 TOP_P=0.95
 
-REASONING=off
+# Thinking enabled (user request, 2026-08-18). deepseek format moves the
+# <think> reasoning into message.reasoning_content (OpenAI-compatible);
+# none would leave the thought tags unparsed in content.
+REASONING=on
+REASONING_FORMAT=deepseek
 
 VERBOSITY=4
diff --git a/scripts/serve-frank-small.sh b/scripts/serve-frank-small.sh
index 78ecd54..f56e1b2 100755
--- a/scripts/serve-frank-small.sh
+++ b/scripts/serve-frank-small.sh
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ fi
 : "${ALIAS:=frank-default-small}"
 : "${BIND_ADDR:=0.0.0.0}"
 : "${LISTEN_PORT:=52625}"
-: "${CTX_SIZE:=65536}"
+: "${CTX_SIZE:=131072}"
 : "${PARALLEL:=1}"
 : "${BATCH_SIZE:=2048}"
 : "${UBATCH_SIZE:=2048}"
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ fi
 : "${SPEC_DRAFT_P_SPLIT:=0.10}"
 : "${TEMPERATURE:=0.7}"
 : "${TOP_P:=0.95}"
-: "${REASONING:=off}"
+: "${REASONING:=on}"
+: "${REASONING_FORMAT:=deepseek}"
 : "${VERBOSITY:=4}"
 
 MODEL="$MODEL_DIR/$MODEL_FILE"
@@ -113,6 +114,6 @@ exec "$LLAMA_BIN" \
     --temp "$TEMPERATURE" \
     --top-p "$TOP_P" \
     --reasoning "$REASONING" \
-    --reasoning-format none \
+    --reasoning-format "$REASONING_FORMAT" \
     --reasoning-budget -1 \
     -lv "$VERBOSITY"