[TRTLLM-14764][feat] trtllm-serve: Kimi K3 API compliance for the Kimi Vendor Verifier (KVV)

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Summary

• Updated trtllm-serve for Kimi K3 Vendor Verifier compliance.
• Added thinking controls, reasoning effort, dynamic tools, JSON-schema responses, tool-choice semantics, streaming usage, prompt-token accounting, and sampling validation.
• Preserved existing behavior for non-Kimi models.
• Added opt-in strict-tool grammar with TRTLLM_KIMI_K3_STRICT_TOOL_GRAMMAR=1.
• Added Kimi-specific documentation and CPU-only unit tests.
• KVV results reached 18/18 parameter tests, 407/408 tool-call JSON-schema tests, 53/54 active K3 feature tests, and 55/55 prompt-token tests.

Dev Engineer Review

• Gated Kimi-specific parsing, validation, serialization, prompt-token offsets, and structured decoding on model_type == "kimi_k3".
• Added tool_choice="required" and "max" and "none" reasoning-effort values.
• Added dynamic tool declarations for system messages.
• Preserved raw Kimi tool-call arguments while retaining strict parsing for other models.
• Added strict grammar generation for declared tools, bounded indices, complete tool sections, and JSON-schema arguments.
• Disabled strict grammar by default because concurrent guided decoding caused a CUDA device-side assert.
• Skipped strict grammar for tool names containing <.
• Added prompt-token offset handling for streaming and non-streaming responses.
• Set Kimi K3 content-part separators to an empty string.
• Added documentation for Kimi behavior and environment variables.
• Registered the Kimi test module in the L0 CPU test list.
• Follow-up remains necessary to root-cause the concurrent guided-decoding CUDA failure.

QA Engineer Review

• Added CPU-only tests in tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_kimi_serve_extensions.py.
• Tests cover request validation, dynamic tools, chat-template mapping, streaming defaults, response formats, sampling policies, guided decoding, strict-tool grammar, attribute escaping, invalid tool-name fallback, optional xgrammar compilation, and reasoning-effort handling.
• Added the test module to tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml.
• The test-list entry provides CI coverage for the added test module.
• The sampling-policy test verifies that temperature, n, and top_p remain uncoerced when TRTLLM_KIMI_PARAM_POLICY=0.
• Verdict: sufficient.

Description

This PR makes trtllm-serve pass Moonshot's official vendor-certification suite for Kimi K3 — the Kimi Vendor Verifier (KVV) — closing every API-contract gap its four pre-flight suites exposed, and bringing the scored KVV benchmarks to parity with the published references (numbers in Test Coverage below).

KVV requires an OpenAI-compatible endpoint to support, among others: tool_choice auto/required/none semantics with HTTP 400 on invalid requests, the Kimi thinking / reasoning_effort extensions, chat_template_kwargs passthrough, message-level ("dynamic") tools, response_format json_schema via guided decoding, exact usage.prompt_tokens parity with Kimi's reference accounting, and streaming usage without client opt-in. All serving-behavior changes in this PR are gated on model_type == "kimi_k3" or are strictly backward-compatible widenings, with two deliberate, loud cross-model exceptions (per review): a tools key on a non-system message is rejected with HTTP 400 for every model (pydantic union validation strips the key from non-system messages, so the raw-payload validator is the only layer that can reject the misuse instead of silently dropping the client's tools), and tool_choice: "required" is rejected with HTTP 400 for models that cannot honor it instead of silently degrading to "auto".

Everything was validated live against a 16×GB300 (DEP16) deployment of the Kimi K3 final v2 weights, --think-mode opensource.

Per-commit breakdown

1. abf48ae8 [feat] wire Kimi K3 chat API extensions (serve/openai_protocol.py, serve/openai_server.py, serve/harmony_adapter.py)

   • Accept tool_choice: "required"; allow "auto"/"none" without tools (required/named still need a non-empty tool list).
   • Widen reasoning_effort with Kimi's "max"/"none" (the harmony/gpt-oss path maps them to the nearest level instead of KeyError) and add the Kimi thinking request extension ({type, keep, effort}).
   • New _apply_kimi_chat_extensions: maps thinking/reasoning_effort/tool_choice/response_format onto the K3 chat-template kwargs so the checkpoint template renders its native control messages; explicit client chat_template_kwargs win. The merged kwargs also steer the kimi_k3 reasoning parser's initial channel and the thinking-budget processor.
   • Default stream_options for kimi_k3 streaming requests so usage is reported in the final chunk (Kimi API parity); other models keep OpenAI-spec opt-in behavior.
   • Fix response_format with reasoning_parser=kimi_k3: build an xgrammar triggered-tags structural tag on the K3 response channel in thinking mode (raw grammar in non-thinking mode) instead of crashing on the parser's missing reasoning_start/reasoning_end.

2. 9d452cbe [fix] thinking.effort takes precedence over reasoning_effort — KVV's test_reasoning_effort_ignored_when_effort_present establishes Kimi's precedence: an explicit thinking.effort wins; reasoning_effort applies only when it is absent.

3. ed3cd1af [feat] message-level (dynamic) tools (serve/openai_protocol.py, serve/openai_server.py, serve/chat_utils.py, inputs/utils.py)

   • Kimi allows declaring tools inside system messages; the K3 template renders them natively as an in-conversation tool-declare block, but the serving layer silently dropped them (pydantic smart-union stripped the tools key). Add DynamicToolsSystemMessageParam ahead of the message union so the key survives.
   • Enforce the KVV dynamic-tools contract with HTTP 400 on violation: system-message-only carrier, empty content, function-typed tools with well-formed unique names (no leading digit, [A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_-]*, ≤256 chars; uniqueness also against request-level tools, across messages, and within a message).
   • Carry the tools key through ConversationMessage to the K3 python renderer; treat dynamic tools as tools for tool_choice validation/auto-defaulting, template control messages, raw-special-token decoding, and the tool parser in postprocessing.

4. 0c024fc2 [fix] honor tool_choice=none; tolerate raw tool-call arguments in history (serve/postprocess_handlers.py, serve/chat_utils.py)

   • tool_choice: "none" now guarantees no tool_calls in the response: the parser still strips tool-call markup from content, but parsed calls are dropped and finish_reason stays "stop" (postprocessing backstop behind the K3 template's MUST-NOT control message).
   • Assistant-history tool_calls whose function.arguments string is not valid JSON no longer 400: the raw string is kept and the K3 renderer renders it verbatim as a JSON block, matching Kimi's reference tokenizer (valid-JSON-non-object arguments are still rejected).

5. e9666482 [fix] validate Kimi json_schema response_format payloads (serve/openai_server.py) — for kimi_k3, response_format.json_schema must be the OpenAI wrapper shape: non-empty name string, schema object, boolean strict when present; each violation returns 400 (previously malformed payloads reached guided decoding and returned 200). Kimi-gated so bare-schema payloads on other models keep working.

6. 7ada7aaf [feat] Kimi immutable sampling-parameter policy (serve/openai_server.py) — Kimi's vendor contract pins top_p=0.95, presence_penalty=0, frequency_penalty=0, n=1 and bounds temperature to [0, 1]; out-of-policy values return HTTP 400 before generation (previously accepted, or "rejected" only via client timeout). Enforced only for kimi_k3; TRTLLM_KIMI_PARAM_POLICY=0 restores unconstrained serving.

7. e179d897 [fix] Kimi K3 prompt-token parity (executor/postproc_worker.py, serve/postprocess_handlers.py, serve/openai_server.py, _torch/models/modeling_kimi_k3_vl.py) — three systematic deltas vs Kimi's reference accounting, all verified against the checkpoint tokenizer:

   • Kimi excludes the trailing 3-token generation channel opener from prompt_tokens; report usage with a num_prompt_tokens_offset for kimi_k3 chat requests (the model still sees the full rendered prompt).
   • tool.model_dump() injected null defaults (strict/description/parameters) into the rendered tool-declare JSON (+3 tokens per tool); use exclude_none (kimi-gated in commit 9).
   • K3's renderer concatenates content parts with no separator; register placeholders_separator="" for kimi_k3 multimodal prompts.

8. 702dc9d3 [feat] strict-tools constrained decoding (serve/tool_parser/base_tool_parser.py, serve/tool_parser/kimi_k3_tool_parser.py, serve/openai_server.py) — tools with strict=true were silently unenforced for kimi_k3 (the generic structural-tag path cannot express K3's XTML call format). Adds a parser-level build_strict_structural_tag_format hook and implements it for kimi_k3: a triggered-tags grammar on the <|open|>tools<|sep|> section constraining generated calls to the declared tools, with strict tools' arguments bound to their parameters JSON Schema via the K3 json-block body form. Grammar verified against xgrammar 0.1.32 (accepts valid strict/parallel calls and no-call answers; rejects schema violations, undeclared tools, and the per-argument form for strict tools).

9. a1dab86f [fix] hardening per adversarial review

   • check_dynamic_tools no longer fires on a tools: null key (some SDKs serialize optional fields as null; previously any such payload 400'd on every served model); empty tool lists treated consistently as absent.
   • The strict-tools grammar is built from request-level plus dynamic tools merged, so it cannot mask calls to tools the prompt declares.
   • Kimi-gating of cross-model effects: dynamic-tools server-side handling, raw-arguments leniency (threaded through parse_chat_messages_coroutines), and exclude_none tool dumps apply to kimi_k3 only.
   • Named tool_choice still requires request-level tools; only "required" is satisfiable by dynamic tools. Param policy also pins the top_p default (0.95) so omitted top_p no longer samples at 1.0 against vendor parity. Tool-name regex uses \Z ($ matched before a trailing newline).

10. 03575203 [fix] gate the kimi_k3 strict-tool grammar behind an opt-in env var — under sustained concurrent guided load with production tool schemas (KVV schema suite: strict=true on all 408 cases), sampling tripped a CUDA device-side assert (TensorCompare.cu _assert_async via sampler.update_requests) on one rank and hard-killed the 16-rank deployment. The identical suite without the grammar runs 408/408 cleanly, isolating the trigger. Default the grammar to off (TRTLLM_KIMI_K3_STRICT_TOOL_GRAMMAR=1 opts in) until the crash is root-caused; strict tools fall back to the pre-existing warn-and-continue path.

11. 9ff9b4d4 [fix] add missing lenient_json parameter to _parse_fallback_tool_calls — the leniency threading updated the helper's internal call and its caller but not its signature; requests with assistant-history tool_calls on the fallback parse path 400'd with a TypeError message.

12. 8f3ba938 [fix] address PR review feedback — per brnguyen2 and CodeRabbit: explicit thinking now wins both the effort and on/off axes over reasoning_effort (no effort derived for explicitly disabled requests); top_p: 1.0 (the OpenAI SDK default) is coerced to the pinned 0.95 inside the policy instead of rejected, and TRTLLM_KIMI_PARAM_POLICY=0 is now fully unconstrained (no coercion either); the prompt-token offset is gated off for prompt_token_ids_b64 relays so both token-id relay paths report identical usage; tool_choice: "required" is rejected for non-kimi_k3 chat and the harmony path; dynamic-tools validation moved into the kimi-gated server layer and chat_utils only forwards the message tools key for kimi_k3 (the role restriction stays at the raw-payload layer — see the gating note above); type annotations and docstrings per CodeRabbit; the Kimi API behavior and both env vars are documented in the K3 deployment guide.

13. b38e10e8 [test] unit tests for the Kimi K3 serving extensions — 75 CPU-only tests (no GPU/checkpoint): tool_choice validators, message-tools carrier rules, the full kimi dynamic-tools contract (KVV name/duplicate/shape probes), the extension-mapping precedence matrix (the review-found leak cases fail on pre-fix code), the param policy incl. coercion and the env escape hatch, the kimi_k3 response_format guided-decoding branch, and the strict-grammar builder (env gate, exact format shape, escaping round-trip, xgrammar compile smoke). Validated in-container: 75 passed, plus the existing TestKimiK3ToolParser suite as a regression check (21 passed).

Known follow-ups

• Root-cause the sampler device-side assert under concurrent guided decoding (blocks the KVV Tool Call "with guided decoding" ~0.8 target; grammar itself is verified and ships env-gated off).

Test Coverage

KVV pre-flight API contract suites (live 16×GB300 DEP16 deployment, final v2 weights, --think-mode opensource) — baseline on main → with this branch:

Suite	main	this PR
tests/params	8/18	18/18
tests/tool_call_json_schema	0/408	407/408 (1 stream-mode model flake)
tests/k3_features	14/54 active	53/54 active (+9 KVV-side skips)
tests/prompt_tokens	0/55	55/55 (exact token parity)

KVV scored benchmarks (references are defined at effort max; temperature 1.0 / top_p 0.95 / streaming per the KVV K3 recommended parameters):

Benchmark	TRT-LLM (low)	TRT-LLM (high)	TRT-LLM (max)	vLLM (max)	Moonshot API	Open-source self-test	Notes
OCRBench (1000)	0.8880 ± 0.010	0.8990 ± 0.010	0.8860 ± 0.010	0.889	0.89	0.891
MMMU-Pro (1730)	0.7913 ± 0.010	0.8075 ± 0.010	0.8127 ± 0.009	0.812	0.82	0.818
KVV Tool Call (113)	0.7434 ± 0.041	0.7257 ± 0.042	0.7080 ± 0.043	0.805	0.83	0.752 without guided decoding, ~0.8 with	Run without guided decoding (comparable to the 0.752 reference). The constrained-decoding path for the ~0.8 target is implemented but disabled pending a sampler error fix: a CUDA device-side assert in sampling under sustained concurrent guided load hard-kills the deployment.
BEAM 1M	—	—	—	—	31.0	pending from Moonshot	Not run: requires validated ~1M-token-context serving (current config: max_seq_len 294912); stretch scope.
DeepSWE	—	—	—	—	67.2 (avg@3)	63.7 (single run, ~10 variance)	Not run: requires the Pier platform + kimi-code agent runtime; stretch scope.

Unit tests: tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_kimi_serve_extensions.py — 75 CPU-only tests covering the validators, the Kimi extension-mapping precedence rules, the sampling-parameter policy, the kimi_k3 response_format guided-decoding branch, and the strict-tools grammar builder (75 passed in-container, plus 21 passed in the existing TestKimiK3ToolParser regression subset).

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Walkthrough

The change adds Kimi K3 reasoning controls, dynamic system-message tools, lenient tool-call parsing, strict structural-tag grammar generation, Kimi-specific request handling, and adjusted prompt-token usage reporting.

Changes

Kimi K3 chat processing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Request and message contracts tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_protocol.py, tensorrt_llm/serve/harmony_adapter.py, tensorrt_llm/inputs/utils.py	Chat requests support dynamic system tools, structured thinking, "required" tool choice, and "max" and "none" reasoning effort values.
Tool-call parsing and grammar tensorrt_llm/serve/chat_utils.py, tensorrt_llm/serve/tool_parser/*	Kimi K3 retains unparseable tool arguments when lenient mode is enabled. The Kimi K3 parser can generate an opt-in strict grammar with schema-constrained JSON bodies.
Kimi request orchestration tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py	The server validates Kimi parameters and dynamic tools, propagates thinking and tool settings, applies guided decoding, and adjusts tool serialization and prompt accounting.
Response handling and token accounting tensorrt_llm/serve/postprocess_handlers.py, tensorrt_llm/executor/postproc_worker.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_kimi_k3_vl.py	Postprocessing supports expanded tool choices and prompt-token offsets. K3 multimodal placeholders now use an empty separator.
Kimi behavior validation and documentation tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_kimi_serve_extensions.py, tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml, docs/source/deployment-guide/deployment-guide-for-kimi-k3-on-trtllm.md	CPU tests cover request validation, policy mapping, guided decoding, strict grammar generation, escaping, and optional grammar compilation. The deployment guide documents the API behavior and environment controls.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0f32b

This PR adds Kimi K3 validation, dynamic tools, usage accounting, and optional strict guided decoding. The default path does not enable the crash-prone grammar, but that opt-in mode can still fail under concurrent load; the remaining typing, logging, and test-cleanup issues are bounded and require owner awareness.

Suggested reviewers: brnguyen2

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant OpenAIServer
  participant ChatUtils
  participant KimiK3ToolParser
  participant PostprocessHandlers
  Client->>OpenAIServer: Submit Kimi K3 chat request with thinking and tools
  OpenAIServer->>ChatUtils: Parse messages with lenient tool arguments
  OpenAIServer->>KimiK3ToolParser: Build optional strict grammar
  OpenAIServer->>PostprocessHandlers: Pass tool choice and prompt-token offset
  PostprocessHandlers-->>Client: Return parsed response and adjusted usage

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tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py (1)

234-241: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Annotate the messages parameter.

_dynamic_tool_dicts declares messages without a type. The callers pass request.messages, typed as List[ChatCompletionMessageParam]. Annotate the parameter so the helper matches the surrounding code.

As per coding guidelines: "Annotate every function, use None for procedures, avoid unnecessary Any and type: ignore".

♻️ Proposed signature change

-def _dynamic_tool_dicts(messages) -> list[dict]:
+def _dynamic_tool_dicts(
+        messages: Optional[List[ChatCompletionMessageParam]]) -> list[dict]:
     """Collect message-level (dynamic) tool declarations from system messages."""

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In `@tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py` around lines 234 - 241, Annotate the
messages parameter of _dynamic_tool_dicts with the existing message-parameter
collection type used by request.messages, while preserving its list[dict] return
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tensorrt_llm/serve/tool_parser/kimi_k3_tool_parser.py (1)

99-178: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for the strict-grammar builder while it stays disabled.

The builder is correct against the parser's own regexes: _escape_attr is the exact inverse of _unescape_attr, and the emitted tool=/index= attributes parse back through _parse_attrs. The env gate also keeps structure_info() unreachable, because tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py line 384 consults this hook before supports_structural_tag().

The whole path is off by default and has no test. A pure-Python test can assert the emitted format dict and the escaping round-trip without a GPU, so the grammar cannot silently rot before the device-side assert is root-caused.

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In `@tensorrt_llm/serve/tool_parser/kimi_k3_tool_parser.py` around lines 99 - 178,
The strict-grammar builder lacks regression coverage while disabled by default.
Add pure-Python unit tests for build_strict_structural_tag_format that verify
the opt-in environment gate, emitted structural-tag format, strict and
non-strict tool branches, and _escape_attr round-tripping through _unescape_attr
and _parse_attrs; avoid GPU-dependent execution or unrelated sampler-assert
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tensorrt_llm/inputs/utils.py (1)

359-361: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Document tools in the class docstring.

The ConversationMessage docstring lists role, content, media, and content_parts under Attributes. The new tools field is described only by an inline comment. Add it to the Attributes section so the public TypedDict contract stays complete.

As per coding guidelines: "Use docstrings rather than comments for externally usable interfaces, Google-style docstrings for classes and functions".

📝 Proposed docstring addition

             This is used by `interleave_mm_placeholders` to insert multimodal placeholders at the
             correct positions, and to reconstruct the OpenAI-style content list for templates that
             handle media natively.
+        tools: Message-level (dynamic) tool declarations carried on system messages. Consumed by
+            python-renderer chat templates (kimi_k3) and ignored by other templates.
     """
     role: str
     content: str
     media: List[MultimodalData]
     content_parts: List[Union[str, dict]]
-    # Message-level (dynamic) tool declarations on system messages, consumed
-    # by python-renderer chat templates (kimi_k3).
     tools: List[dict]

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field, including its List[dict] type and message-level dynamic tool declaration
purpose; retain the existing inline comment only if needed for implementation
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tensorrt_llm/serve/postprocess_handlers.py (1)

78-79: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Widen ChatCompletionPostprocArgs.tool_choice to include "required". from_request copies ChatCompletionRequest.tool_choice directly, but the harmony dataclass annotation omits "required".

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ChatCompletionPostprocArgs.tool_choice annotation to include the "required"
literal alongside the existing allowed values, matching the
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Inline comments:
In `@tensorrt_llm/serve/tool_parser/base_tool_parser.py`:
- Around line 304-312: Annotate the tools parameter of
build_strict_structural_tag_format with List[Tool], reusing the existing Tool
import and matching the kimi_k3_tool_parser override; leave the method’s
Optional[dict] return type and behavior unchanged.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@tensorrt_llm/inputs/utils.py`:
- Around line 359-361: Update the ConversationMessage class docstring’s
Attributes section to document the tools field, including its List[dict] type
and message-level dynamic tool declaration purpose; retain the existing inline
comment only if needed for implementation context.

In `@tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py`:
- Around line 234-241: Annotate the messages parameter of _dynamic_tool_dicts
with the existing message-parameter collection type used by request.messages,
while preserving its list[dict] return annotation and current handling of empty
or missing messages.

In `@tensorrt_llm/serve/postprocess_handlers.py`:
- Around line 78-79: Update the ChatCompletionPostprocArgs.tool_choice
annotation to include the "required" literal alongside the existing allowed
values, matching the ChatCompletionRequest.tool_choice values copied by
from_request.

In `@tensorrt_llm/serve/tool_parser/kimi_k3_tool_parser.py`:
- Around line 99-178: The strict-grammar builder lacks regression coverage while
disabled by default. Add pure-Python unit tests for
build_strict_structural_tag_format that verify the opt-in environment gate,
emitted structural-tag format, strict and non-strict tool branches, and
_escape_attr round-tripping through _unescape_attr and _parse_attrs; avoid
GPU-dependent execution or unrelated sampler-assert tracking.

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The [TRTLLM-14764] ticket is cited and the per-commit description is unusually thorough — but two claims don't match the diff, and the change ships with zero in-repo tests.

Gating claim vs. reality. The description says all serving-behavior changes are "gated on model_type == "kimi_k3" or are strictly backward-compatible widenings". Two changes are neither:

• check_dynamic_tools (openai_protocol.py:1192) validates for every served model — see inline comment.
• tool_choice: "required" is now schema-accepted for every model but only enforced for kimi_k3 — see inline comment on openai_protocol.py:957.

No tests. Most of this PR is protocol-level logic that is unit-testable without a GPU: the check_tool_choice/check_dynamic_tools validators, ChatCompletionThinkingParam precedence in _apply_kimi_chat_extensions, _enforce_kimi_param_policy, the kimi_k3 branch of _response_format_to_guided_decoding_params, build_strict_structural_tag_format output, and the num_prompt_tokens_offset arithmetic in the postprocess handlers. Live KVV validation is great evidence the current build works, but none of it prevents regressions; tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/_test_openai_chat.py and friends are the natural home. Please add coverage at least for the validators and the extension-mapping precedence rules.

Undocumented knobs. TRTLLM_KIMI_PARAM_POLICY and TRTLLM_KIMI_K3_STRICT_TOOL_GRAMMAR exist only in code comments, and the new user-facing API surface (thinking, tool_choice="required", message-level tools, reasoning_effort "max"/"none") isn't mentioned in docs. At minimum the env vars deserve a docs entry, since one of them silently changes which requests a production endpoint accepts.

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tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_kimi_serve_extensions.py (1)

312-318: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Cover and document all supported reasoning-effort values.

Production supports low, high, and max, but the test currently covers only max and the deployment documentation omits low and high. Parameterize the test across all three values and document the complete supported set.

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In `@tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_kimi_serve_extensions.py` around lines 312 -
318, Parameterize test_reasoning_effort_applies_when_thinking_effort_absent
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In `@tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_kimi_serve_extensions.py`:
- Around line 15-21: Add
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_kimi_serve_extensions.py to the CPU test
registration in l0_cpu.yml, annotate all helper and test function parameters and
return types, and parameterize reasoning_effort tests to cover low, high, and
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In `@tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_kimi_serve_extensions.py`:
- Around line 312-318: Parameterize
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reasoning_effort values low, high, and max, asserting each value is propagated
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tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_kimi_serve_extensions.py (1)

287-290: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Remove the unused monkeypatch parameter.

No test passes monkeypatch to apply, and the body never reads it. A caller that passes it positionally would be ignored without error.

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-    def apply(self, monkeypatch=None, model_type="kimi_k3", **kwargs):
+    def apply(self, model_type="kimi_k3", **kwargs):
         req = make_request(**kwargs)
         _apply_kimi_chat_extensions(req, model_type)
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Use precise built-in generic types for dynamic tools.

Both new fields use List[dict]. This hides the key and value contract and does not use Python 3.10 built-in generics.

• tensorrt_llm/inputs/utils.py#L354-L362: define tools with a parameterized dynamic-tool type.
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In `@tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_protocol.py`:
- Around line 913-919: Update the ChatCompletionThinkingParam docstring to state
that thinking.effort takes precedence when explicitly provided, while
request-level reasoning_effort is used only when thinking.effort is absent.

In `@tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py`:
- Around line 1735-1740: Preserve compatibility for non-kimi_k3 requests using
tool_choice="required" by gating the new ValueError in the tool-choice handling
and the corresponding Harmony path behind an environment switch, defaulting to
the existing behavior unless explicitly enabled. Use the existing
configuration/environment access pattern, and keep strict rejection enabled for
kimi_k3.

Apply the same fix in `@tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py` around lines 2362 -
2366.

In `@tensorrt_llm/serve/postprocess_handlers.py`:
- Around line 206-209: Update ChatCompletionRequest default handling or
ChatPostprocArgs.from_request so requests with tools and no explicit tool_choice
resolve to "auto", while preserving explicit "none" suppression in the
postprocessing branch. Ensure requests without tools retain their existing
behavior.

In `@tensorrt_llm/serve/tool_parser/kimi_k3_tool_parser.py`:
- Around line 46-47: Update _escape_attr to encode angle-bracket delimiters
(< and >) in addition to the existing ampersand and quote escaping, and
update _unescape_attr to decode those entities symmetrically so tool names
containing them remain parseable by _call_regex.

In `@tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_kimi_serve_extensions.py`:
- Around line 117-119: Update the class docstring near the role-restriction test
so its first line is a one-line summary followed by a blank line, then retain
the detailed explanation. Run the formatter and Ruff checks for the modified
file to ensure D205 and formatting issues are resolved.

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In `@tensorrt_llm/inputs/utils.py`:
- Around line 354-362: Replace the unparameterized tools annotations with the
same precise Python 3.10 built-in generic type, such as a mapping from string
keys to Any values, at tensorrt_llm/inputs/utils.py lines 354-362 and
tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_protocol.py lines 809-826. Keep both dynamic-tool
fields consistent across the internal message model and wire-message model.

In `@tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_kimi_serve_extensions.py`:
- Around line 287-290: Remove the unused monkeypatch parameter from the apply
method signature, keeping model_type and kwargs behavior unchanged; update any
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