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fix(llm): preserve length finish reason on truncated tool calls - #13791

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Overview:

PR #13791 fixes truncated tool calls on the shared non-streaming path: when generation reaches max_tokens, the response now keeps finish_reason: "length" instead of claiming the tool call completed. This affects all models on that path. It does not clear either customer_truncated_tool_markup_hidden harness failure because OpenAI arguments remain invalid JSON by design.

Example (before → after):

Input: tool_choice: "required", max_tokens: 32, and a record_literal(label, literal_text) call truncated inside literal_text.

OpenAI /v1/chat/completions, non-streaming
before: finish_reason = "tool_calls"; arguments = unterminated JSON
after:  finish_reason = "length";     arguments = the same unterminated JSON

The caller now has a truncation signal and can skip execution. After #13791, non-streaming and streaming both report length. Passing this case requires an OpenAI-surface contract decision outside this PR.

Changes:

  • Preserve Length and ContentFilter when a tool call is present; only Stop and a missing reason become ToolCalls. Responses can now report status: "incomplete" with max_output_tokens.
  • For Anthropic, report stop_reason: "max_tokens" and recover only completed top-level input members. Invalid arguments still become {} when the finish reason claims the call completed.
  • Add regressions for finish-reason normalization and truncated Anthropic input, including nested values, commas, and escaped quotes.

Harness result:

The ibhosale Qwen3.6-27B custom suite job 20260826-001521 built 044c0fd1, which does not contain #13791.

customer_truncated_tool_markup_hidden Without #13791 With #13791
Non-streaming FAIL: invalid_arguments_json; finish reason tool_calls Not run
Streaming FAIL: invalid_arguments_json; finish reason length Not run

#13791 clears neither failure. Streaming already returned length and still failed; tool_calls_with_non_tool_finish is only a warning, while invalid_arguments_json is fatal. The other two Dynamo/API failures are named_no_argument_server_time; they belong to DIS-2779 and PR #13785.

Verification:

At reviewed head cc47e484: truncated_tool_call_tests 11 passed; aggregator finish-reason tests 5 passed; --test tool_choice_finish_reasons 6 passed; cargo test -p dynamo-llm --lib 2,364 passed, 0 failed. Reverting the call-site gate makes the refusal test fail with left: {"label": "customer-eof"} against right: {}.

Where should the reviewer start?

lib/llm/src/protocols/openai/chat_completions/aggregator.rs, then lib/llm/src/protocols/anthropic/types.rs

Related: DIS-2780, #13790, #13792

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved handling of truncated tool-call arguments for Anthropic responses, preserving valid completed data and safely discarding incomplete content.
    • Added more reliable recovery for nested values, commas, and escaped quotes in partially received tool arguments.
    • Preserved accurate completion reasons, including length limits and content filtering, when OpenAI responses include tool calls.
    • Unrecoverable or malformed tool arguments now fall back safely instead of causing inconsistent response handling.

Signed-off-by: Keiven Chang <keivenchang@users.noreply.github.com>
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The changes improve tool-response handling in Anthropic and OpenAI protocol conversions. Anthropic responses recover completed members from truncated tool arguments. OpenAI responses preserve terminal Length and ContentFilter finish reasons when tool calls are present.

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Anthropic tool argument recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Recover truncated tool arguments
lib/llm/src/protocols/anthropic/types.rs
Valid arguments pass through unchanged. Truncated objects recover completed members and discard incomplete members. Regression tests cover nested values, commas, escaped quotes, and unrecoverable input.

OpenAI tool-call finish reasons

Layer / File(s) Summary
Preserve terminal finish reasons
lib/llm/src/protocols/openai/chat_completions/aggregator.rs
Tool-bearing choices map only Stop or absent finish reasons to ToolCalls. Length and ContentFilter remain unchanged. Tests verify both cases.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 365b7

The PR improves truncation signaling and partial tool-argument recovery, but one edge case can still drop a complete final argument when truncation occurs before the closing brace, producing an empty input instead of preserving valid data; the change is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up.

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In `@lib/llm/src/protocols/anthropic/types.rs`:
- Around line 637-639: Update the JSON recovery logic around last_boundary so it
first attempts to parse the trimmed input with a single appended closing brace,
returning a complete object when truncation follows a final member value; retain
the existing comma-boundary fallback for other truncated inputs. Add a
regression test covering an input such as {"label":"customer-eof"}.
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Signed-off-by: Keiven Chang <keivenchang@users.noreply.github.com>
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Partial recovery ran for any malformed arguments, regardless of why
generation ended. A call whose finish reason claims it completed but whose
arguments do not parse would emit the members that happened to parse, inside
a tool_use block marked complete, with no error anywhere in the response.
That is a call a client can schema-validate and then run with half its
arguments -- worse than the empty object it replaced, which failed loudly.

Recovery now requires the upstream reason to be Length, which is the same
signal the doc comment already pointed at: stop_reason "max_tokens" is what
tells the client the call is incomplete. Every other reason keeps the empty
object.

Three tests reach the recovery through chat_completion_to_anthropic_response
rather than the helper. The eight existing tests call tool_use_input directly,
so reverting the conversion site left all of them green; the refusal test goes
red there.

Also renames the test module off the internal tracker id.

Signed-off-by: Keiven Chang <keivenchang@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Keiven Chang <keivenchang@users.noreply.github.com>
@pull-request-size pull-request-size Bot added size/XL and removed size/L labels Sep 1, 2026
Signed-off-by: Krishnan Prashanth <kprashanth@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Krishnan Prashanth <kprashanth@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Krishnan Prashanth <kprashanth@nvidia.com>
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@KrishnanPrash No actionable findings remain, thank you so much!

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…failure subcategories

Problem: the Custom qualification suite stopped at 24 generic cases and
reported failures only by coarse ownership (dynamo_api / infrastructure /
model_quality), so recent frontend regressions and vendor-verifier checks
were not covered and dashboards could not say what kind of Dynamo failure
occurred.

Cases (24 -> 61 generic, every inline profile):
- Tool-result follow-up turns: plain answer, thinking disabled, failed
  tool result, two results compared, long result, three round trips,
  text-part tool content, history without tools, second turn with a fresh
  call ID (dynamo #16781, #17050, #17069; frontend-crates #353).
- Request contract: dotted tool name (#16482), document-local $ref in a
  required schema (#16780), strict anyOf property (#16311), explicit null
  tool_choice (#16373), parallel_tool_calls=false single call (#16212),
  empty tools array and unknown named tool rejected with 400 (#16160),
  tool without a parameters block, max_completion_tokens alias, client
  stop strings, truncated call reported as length (#13791), usage block
  present and consistent in both modes (#13947).
- Argument fidelity: 4-byte UTF-8 literal, newline/tab escapes, negative
  float and large integer, JSON null for a nullable field, falsy values
  (0 / false / ""), omitted optional argument, array of typed objects.
- Prompt shapes: system prompt mandating tool use, long system context,
  twenty tool definitions, three distinct parallel tools, pasted tool-call
  JSON and marker-like text in a tool description treated as data (#17466).
- Vendor-verifier scenarios: MiniMax parameter-order recall; an executed
  one-call agent loop with a real tool-result round trip.

Validators that run on every record:
- reasoning_only_response / empty_response (MiniMax Error-Only-Reasoning,
  dynamo #15901), reasoning markers in content, OpenAI-shaped tool-call
  JSON leaked into content (#16383), typed scalars returned as strings,
  tool call IDs reused from history, usage arithmetic; expected_http_status
  for request-validation cases.

Taxonomy: each failed record now carries failure_subcategory and
failure_kinds; the static summary and suite-result carry
failure_subcategories. Verdict rules are unchanged; a forbidden
finish_reason=tool_calls now counts as a Dynamo defect.

Linear: DIS-3268
Signed-off-by: doxu <doxu@nvidia.com>
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