feat: add opt-in V2 parsing for eight model families

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Summary

This PR connects Dynamo to V2 tool and reasoning parsing for GLM, DeepSeek V4, DeepSeek V4.1, Kimi K2, Kimi K3, Gemma 4, Muse, and Qwen3. DYN_PARSER_VERSION=1 selects V1 and DYN_PARSER_VERSION=2 selects V2. Leave it unset or set it to auto to keep the original family defaults. Unsupported values and incompatible parser configurations stop startup.

The default routes stay the same, including V2 for Muse and the configured DeepSeek V4.1 parser pair. The troubleshooting guide describes family defaults, request-mode exceptions, forced tool choices, structural tags, and streaming versus batch behavior.

Why land this for 1.6.0

This is the Dynamo integration for the published dynamo-parsers-v2 0.7.17 crate. That release includes frontend-crates #326 for quoted-control handling and earlier argument delivery, and #332 for Kimi tool IDs and call boundaries. Keeping the original family routes lets this integration ship in 1.6.0 without changing routing for existing deployments.

Validation

• cargo test --locked -p dynamo-llm --lib: 3,113 passed and 3 ignored on d81e2fc4.
• cargo test --locked -p dynamo-llm --test aggregators: 32 passed on d81e2fc4.
• cargo test --locked -p dynamo-llm --test postprocessor_parsing_stream: 101 passed on d81e2fc4.
• python3 -B -m unittest discover -s lib/sidecar -p test_build_cache.py: two tests passed.
• cargo fmt --all -- --check, targeted pre-commit, git diff --check, and python3 docs/fern/scripts/docs_lint.py --scan docs passed. The docs scan found 0 errors.

These checks cover the regressions named here; the full parser qualification gate remains incomplete.

Caveats and follow-up

Area	Current result	Follow-up
Kimi	Published 0.7.17 includes #332's native tool ID and call-boundary fixes.	Revalidate additional Kimi templates and outputs as part of DIS-3063.
Quoted controls and parser-error recovery	Published 0.7.17 includes frontend-crates #326. The Dynamo quoted-control and Muse every-split regression tests pass. Literal native tool-call opener cases are not covered. A separate recovery TODO remains: after partial event emission, an error can replay committed input when reset returns no buffered text.	Track the recovery fix and remaining opener cases in DIS-3063. Dynamo #15577 covers broader V2 stream delivery; it does not claim to fix this error-recovery case.
Qwen3-Coder numbers	Decimal and exponent arguments still need schema-based qualification.	frontend-crates #339 tracks this work.
Muse request modes	The default-route prefill regression is fixed here. Remaining forced-choice and structural-tag differences are documented in the guide.	Track the remaining Muse cleanup in DIS-3063.
V1 split marker	With generic <think> prefill, splitting </think> after thought< can leave later tool JSON in reasoning. This also occurs on the existing V1 route.	Keep this regression and its compatibility comparison in DIS-3063.
Low-priority review follow-ups	CodeRabbit's current-head review raised one Minor configuration-message suggestion and two Trivial sidecar suggestions.	Track all three in DIS-3063.

Full parser qualification, broader live-template coverage, and live-model checks remain follow-up work. The unresolved cases are disclosed here so they do not block landing the opt-in Dynamo integration for 1.6.0.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added auto, v1, and v2 parser selection. Supported unified parsing is selected automatically where applicable, with options for explicit version selection.
  • Improved tool-call and reasoning handling across streaming and batch responses, including structured outputs and requests with reasoning disabled.
• Bug Fixes
  • Incompatible parser settings are now rejected during startup or request validation, with clearer errors.
• Documentation
  • Updated guidance on parser selection, compatibility, and known limitations.

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Walkthrough

Parser routing now uses configured parser versions and validates compatibility during startup and request handling. Unified parsing applies reasoning and structured-response policies. The change also adds isolated test execution and updates sidecar Cargo build caching.

Changes

Parser version selection and unified routing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Parser version configuration and validation lib/runtime/src/config.rs, lib/runtime/src/config/environment_names.rs, lib/runtime/src/worker.rs, lib/runtime/src/distributed.rs, lib/llm/src/discovery/watcher.rs, lib/llm/src/protocols/openai/chat_completions/tool_parser_v2.rs, Cargo.toml, docs/fern/pages/use-cases/tool-calling-and-reasoning/troubleshooting-tool-calls.md, docs/fern/pages/reference/general/releases/dynamo-v1-3-0.mdx, lib/bindings/python/rust/parsers.rs	DYN_PARSER_VERSION selects Auto, V1, or V2. Runtime initialization and chat model-card preparation validate parser settings and compatibility. The parser dependency is updated to 0.7.17, and documentation describes parser selection and routing.
Request reasoning and prompt-prefill policy lib/llm/src/protocols/openai.rs, lib/llm/src/discovery/worker_set.rs, lib/llm/src/http/service.rs, lib/llm/src/preprocessor.rs	Parsing options now include reasoning-disabled, structured-response, and default-thinking state. Preprocessing normalizes thinking controls, detects route-specific prompt prefills, resolves special-token requirements at model setup, and applies reasoning policy to unified parsing.
Unified, legacy, and batch parser routing lib/llm/src/protocols/openai/chat_completions/unified_parser.rs, lib/llm/src/protocols/openai/chat_completions/tool_parser_v2.rs, lib/llm/src/protocols/openai/chat_completions/aggregator.rs, lib/llm/src/preprocessor.rs, lib/llm/tests/aggregators.rs, lib/llm/tests/postprocessor_parsing_stream.rs	Unified routing uses the parser-version setting and configured families. Batch parsing passes tool schemas and response policy to the selected parser. Tests cover route selection, tool parsing, reasoning output, and structured responses.

Environment-isolated test execution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Isolated test utilities and adoption lib/runtime/src/test_utils.rs, lib/runtime/src/lib.rs, lib/llm/src/lib.rs, lib/runtime/src/distributed.rs, lib/runtime/src/pipeline/network/*, lib/runtime/src/system_status_server/probe_tests.rs, lib/llm/src/discovery/watcher.rs, lib/llm/src/preprocessor.rs, lib/llm/tests/aggregators.rs, lib/llm/tests/postprocessor_parsing_stream.rs	Test utilities run exact tests in child processes with controlled environment variables and validate their results. Runtime and LLM tests use the utilities for isolated execution.

Sidecar Cargo build cache

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cache stamp, Docker wiring, and regression checks lib/sidecar/build-with-cache.sh, lib/sidecar/Dockerfile, lib/sidecar/test_build_cache.py, .github/codeowners/areas.yaml, CODEOWNERS	The sidecar build helper hashes workspace inputs, synchronizes their timestamps, and runs Cargo. Three Docker builds use the helper and the inputs-v3 cache generation. Tests cover cache freshness, generated inputs, warm builds, and resumed builds.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d81e2

The parser-version selection changes look ready to merge. One small follow-up is suggested: a malformed legacy parser flag should name the offending variable in the startup error. Known parser gaps are disclosed in the PR and tracked separately.

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Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 81.94% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 144 functions across 25 files. (7 skipped: …
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: adding V2 parsing support for eight model families.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the changes, motivation, validation, and known limitations. It references related issues, although it does not use the template’s section headings or identify where reviewers …

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Previously reported defects still present:

• Original discussion: tool_calls_qwen3_coder_auto_routes_through_v2_by_default still asserts only the clean tool-call shape and ToolCalls finish reason, which the existing comment acknowledges both the v1 jail and v2 parser produce. A regression that leaves the default route on LegacyJail would still satisfy these assertions, so the test remains non-discriminating for the claimed default-v2 route; add a route-specific assertion or use a fixture whose v1 and v2 outputs differ.

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Previously reported defects still present:

• Original discussion: The current default-v2 streaming test still only asserts output shared by LegacyJail and ParserV2; its own comment confirms both paths produce the asserted finish reason. A regression that routes this supported Qwen3 Auto request through the v1 jail would still pass, so the claimed default-v2 route remains unverified.
• Original discussion: The default-v2 streaming test still only checks output shared by ParserV2 and LegacyJail. With DYN_PARSER_VERSION=v1, it can pass through the legacy route, so it does not verify the claimed default route.
• Original discussion: The renamed tool_calls_qwen3_coder_auto_routes_through_v2_by_default test still only checks output that both ParserV2 and LegacyJail produce, and it does not isolate or assert the selected route. A regression that leaves default routing on the jail would continue to pass this test.
• Original discussion: tool_calls_qwen3_coder_auto_routes_through_v2_by_default still asserts only the clean tool-call shape and ToolCalls finish reason, which the v1 jail path also produces. The current test can pass through LegacyJail under DYN_PARSER_VERSION=v1, so it remains non-discriminating for the claimed default-v2 streaming route; require the selected route to be ParserV2 or use a fixture whose v1 and v2 outputs differ.
• Original discussion: tool_calls_qwen3_coder_auto_routes_through_v2_by_default still only checks the resulting tool-call shape and ToolCalls finish reason, both of which the v1 jail can produce. It does not assert that the preprocessor selected ParserV2, so a regression back to LegacyJail would still pass.

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• Original discussion: The previously raised route-specific coverage gap is still present: tool_calls_qwen3_coder_auto_routes_through_v2_by_default validates only the parsed tool call and ToolCalls finish reason, which the legacy v1 jail also produces. Because the test neither isolates DYN_PARSER_VERSION from an explicit v1 rollback nor asserts the selected streaming route, disabling the v2 route can leave this default-route regression test green.
• Original discussion: The renamed default-v2 Qwen streaming test still only asserts clean tool-call output and ToolCalls, which both ParserV2 and LegacyJail produce. It does not isolate or assert the selected route, so a regression that leaves the default on the v1 jail would still pass.
• Original discussion: The renamed default-v2 streaming test still asserts output that both ParserV2 and LegacyJail produce, and its comment explicitly says both paths produce ToolCalls. It neither isolates the default environment nor asserts the selected route, so a regression back to the v1 jail would still pass.
• Original discussion: The renamed default-v2 streaming test still does not isolate DYN_PARSER_VERSION or assert ToolProcessingRoute::ParserV2; with DYN_PARSER_VERSION=v1, it exercises LegacyJail and its shared output assertions still pass. It therefore does not verify the claimed default-v2 route.

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Previously reported defects still present:

• Original discussion: The default-v2 streaming test still asserts only output shared by ParserV2 and LegacyJail, and does not isolate or assert the selected route; a regression to the v1 jail could still pass.
• Original discussion: The default-v2 streaming test still does not isolate DYN_PARSER_VERSION or assert ToolProcessingRoute::ParserV2. With DYN_PARSER_VERSION=v1, this Qwen3 Auto request uses LegacyJail, yet its clean tool-call and ToolCalls assertions still pass, so the claimed default routing remains unverified.

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Approving 365bb71. The bar holds: no P0, P1 or P2 is open, and four P3 notes are open, two of them new.

• [P3] Still open from r1001: with DYN_PARSER_VERSION=2, six families still lose the text after a quoted tool-call opener. The description names this, but the troubleshooting guide does not.
• [P3] Still open from r1001: DYN_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_PARSERS_V2=enabled or y still stops startup, and true still means strict V2. The description names this, but the guide does not.
• [P3] New: with the flag unset, a kimi_k3 prompt that ends in <|open|> think <|sep|> now sends reasoning_ended: false and starts the parser in reasoning. main does neither. Your 2026-10-05 reply on #15577 says "spaced syntax stays behind the flag". Please name this default-path change in the description or the guide, or gate it as the reply says.
• [P3] New, low impact: the test step at lib/sidecar/Dockerfile:78 writes lib/sidecar/__pycache__/test_build_cache.cpython-312.pyc into /src, and build-with-cache.sh hashes that file. Its header holds the copy time of the test file. After a BuildKit layer-cache miss, the same source bytes then rebuild every local crate. Please run the test with python3 -B.
• Open item, not graded: #15784 rewrites the same three build steps. A merge of this head with its head c0c3ef956c conflicts in lib/sidecar/Dockerfile. The PR that lands second has to update the Dockerfile and test_helper_owns_all_target_cache_writers together.

What I measured at 365bb71.

Scope. This head is one commit on c5d615ea59. Against c29439ab5a, only five files changed: build-with-cache.sh, test_build_cache.py, the Dockerfile, and one row each in areas.yaml and CODEOWNERS. The 30 parser files have the same bytes. Against 52a1337d78, 14 of them have the same blobs, and 16 have the same changed lines on a newer base. Fifteen main commits changed those 16 files. Only #13957 (chat prompt logprobs) changed aggregator.rs, tool_parser_v2.rs, unified_parser.rs and the two lib/llm test files. Five commits changed preprocessor.rs, one changed protocols/openai.rs, and the others changed the locks, the manifests and four runtime files. The description does not name the five new files or how you tested them.

Tests. I ran these tests on one GPU host, with 4 jobs and 4 test threads.

• cargo test --locked -p dynamo-llm --no-fail-fast with the flag unset: 3,632 passed, 0 failed, 25 ignored. No test changed its result against 52a1337d78. main added 29 tests, which pass, and removed 3.
• The same command with DYN_PARSER_VERSION=2: the same 46 tests fail as at 52a1337d78.
• The ignored tests on the four parser targets: the same 5 known failures as in my last round.
• dynamo-runtime library tests: 879 passed and 0 failed, with six logging tests skipped. Those six tests start cargo inside the run. Without the skip, the tests that start their own binary fail with NotFound in my 4-thread run, on main too (2 tests there).
• cargo tree --locked passes in the workspace and in both bindings, all on dynamo-parsers 9.2.6 and dynamo-parsers-v2 0.7.13. A stale lock fails with exit 101.

Merge with main. At cfc3fc0c4a, which adds #14475, the merge has no conflicts. It builds, and both test modes give the same results as this head. The 10 new tests from #14475 pass in both modes.

The two older P3 notes. Under V2, all six families return The literal " in stream and batch, with stop and with length. With the flag unset, five families keep the full text. DeepSeek V4.1 cuts it there too, as on main. test_glm47_quoted_marker_prose_is_preserved_on_length_finish still fails under V2 with left: Some(Text("The literal \"")). The startup test fails for enabled and y with Invalid boolean value: 'enabled'. Expected one of: true/false, 1/0, on/off, yes/no, and it passes on main. With true, Hermes with auto or required and DeepSeek R1 with required get DYN_PARSER_VERSION=2 was requested, but the configured parser pair has no compatible unified v2 implementation. main serves these requests. The guide has the same bytes as at 52a1337d78.

The kimi_k3 probe. Both trees got the same template tail, with the flag unset. This head returns PromptReasoningPrefill { legacy: true, unified: true } and reasoning_ended: false. main returns false and no reasoning_ended. The opener without spaces gives the same result in both trees. For my sample answer, the client sees the same content and reasoning in both trees. So the difference is the backend argument and the start state of the parser. The test Kimi K3 ignores Unicode whitespace inside the suffix and Ryan's thread on preprocessor.rs:6440 show that the default path matches the spaced form on purpose.

The cache helper. The stamp is the hash file that the helper keeps in the target folder.

• test_build_cache.py passes at this head in 0.79 s on the host. A copy of the helper without the touch lines fails it with E0425. A copy that always replaces the stamp fails at "Fresh runtime" in warm.stderr.
• Real repository: two checkouts of this head share one target folder. Checkout Y adds a marker to a doc comment in dynamo-sidecar-common, and all its files are 2 hours old. In Y, plain cargo build -p dynamo-trtllm-sidecar keeps 12 local crates fresh, and --help has no marker. The helper replaces the stamp, rebuilds all 13 local crates in 63 s, and --help shows the marker. The same bytes at the same path, again 2 hours old, compile nothing.
• Odd file names (newline, carriage return, backslash, a dash at the start, glob characters, bytes that are not UTF-8) all get the stamp time. A rename alone replaces the stamp. After a SIGKILL during a build, the helper gives the new binary, and plain cargo gives the old one. Two helpers that run at the same time without a lock can still reuse a stale crate, so the sharing=locked mounts are required.
• The .pyc note: I ran five rounds over a copy of the build context. The same bytes with another copy time give a new stamp, and the same copy time keeps it. With python3 -B, both copy times keep one stamp. BuildKit COPY keeps the file time of the context and leaves it out of the cache key.

Ownership. The CI step that regenerates CODEOWNERS and CONTRIBUTORS.md finds no drift, and a planted change makes it fail. build_codeowners.py --strict and test_codeowners.py pass. The two new rows are the only ownership change. They move the two new files from the runtime owners to @ai-dynamo/dynamo-ops-codeowners, who also own the Dockerfile.

CI on this head. Pre Merge passed on the merge with 433b4dabcc: 8,265 Rust tests passed and 0 failed. dynamo-status-check failed because the planner and dynamo-runtime image builds hit their 60-minute limit. #15330 and #13393 lost the same jobs in the same hour, so this failure is not related to the diff. PR-XPU ran only its guard job. The sidecar image job ran the new test on both architectures (1.3 s on amd64, 2.0 s on arm64) and all six helper builds. It pushed the image after 54 minutes, on the new cache id with no earlier artifacts. Then it stalled while it copied the cached binaries out, and it was cancelled at its 90-minute limit. #15330 stalled in the same step in the same hour without this change.

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assert is used for runtime validation of the toolchain.

The Python guidelines flag assert as runtime validation. Under python -O, the check disappears and cargo can be None. The command list then fails with an obscure TypeError. Use self.skipTest or raise unittest.SkipTest when cargo is missing. Alternatively, fail explicitly with raise RuntimeError.

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-    assert cargo is not None, "Rust toolchain required for Cargo cache regression"
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touch -r also modifies files outside the source set, including .git-like or Cargo-generated files under $PWD.

find "$PWD" touches every file in the copied workspace. In the Docker build, /src holds only the copied inputs and the target mount, which the script prunes. The behavior is correct for that layout.

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[keivenchang]

Replying to #14950 (review): the two Trivial sidecar suggestions are queued in DIS-3063, to replace the Cargo check with an explicit error and restrict the timestamp helper to its Docker build context.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Approving d81e2fc. The bar holds: no P0, P1 or P2 is open, and two P3 notes are open, one of them new.

• [P3] Still open from r1001: DYN_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_PARSERS_V2=enabled or y still stops startup, and true still selects strict V2. The description no longer names this, and no page in the docs names the old flag. Please say in the guide what the old flag does now.
• [P3] New: dynamo-v1-3-0.mdx:94 now says "an experimental V2 routing setting" instead of the flag name. Tag v1.3.0 reads only DYN_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_PARSERS_V2, and no docs check requires this edit. Please keep the flag name in the v1.3.0 notes.
• Fixed in this round: the parser-route status from the coderabbitai thread at preprocessor.rs:5157. At a67a55976a, a model with no tool or reasoning parser got HTTP 500 under V2 for a forced tool choice. At this head it gets 400. When I put the old code back, the tightened test fails.
• Closed from r1001: the quoted tool-call opener. With dynamo-parsers-v2 0.7.17, all six families keep the whole answer under V2.
• Closed from r1003: the kimi_k3 spaced opener. The guide now names the default-path change, and my probe matches it.
• Closed from r1003: the .pyc in the cache stamp. lib/sidecar/Dockerfile:78 now runs python3 -B.
• Open items, not graded: coderabbitai's three notes on this head, which you deferred. They are the error text at lib/runtime/src/config.rs:56-67 and two sidecar nitpicks. I did not check them.
• Open item, not graded: #15784 still conflicts with this head in lib/sidecar/Dockerfile. The PR that lands second has to update the Dockerfile and test_helper_owns_all_target_cache_writers together.

What I measured at d81e2fc and at a67a559.

Scope. The head has five commits on b7981eaf09. 683199212d has the same patch as 8e1a4188eb. Against my r1003 approval, the feature commit differs only in the dynamo-parsers-v2 requirement (0.7.17), the three locks, and lines that main now has. Three commits change the Dockerfile, un-ignore five tests, drop one Muse skip, and edit the guide and the v1.3.0 notes. d81e2fc4fc maps both rejection sites to invalid_argument_error, tightens one test, and adds a TODO comment.

Tests. I ran cargo test --locked -p dynamo-llm --no-fail-fast on one GPU host, with 4 jobs and 4 test threads. My runs on main below used 6e4221b228.

• At d81e2fc4fc, flag unset: 3,647 passed, 0 failed, 20 ignored. With DYN_PARSER_VERSION=2: 3,602 passed, 45 failed, 20 ignored. In both modes, no test changed its result against a67a55976a, and explicit_v2_rejects_modes_that_require_the_v1_jail passes.

• At a67a55976a, against r1003: the five tests that you un-ignored now pass, and the 10 tests that main added pass. Under V2, test_glm47_quoted_marker_prose_is_preserved_on_length_finish now passes too. No other test changed its result. The other 45 V2 failures are r1003's failures by name.

• The code of a67a55976a with dynamo-parsers-v2 0.7.13: the five un-ignored tests and the Muse every-split test fail, and the GLM test also fails under V2. The 45 V2 failures are the same on both versions. So each change comes from 0.7.17, and your un-ignored tests fail on the old version.

• The two commands in the guide: with the flag unset, quoted_ passes 13 unit tests, 1 aggregator test and 2 integration tests. With =2, test_hermes_batch_guided_json_failure_ignores_quoted_marker_substring fails, as in r1003. The Muse every-split test passes in both modes.

• dynamo-runtime library tests at a67a55976a: 879 passed, 0 failed, with r1003's six logging tests skipped. d81e2fc4fc does not change lib/runtime.

• cargo tree --locked passes in the workspace and in both bindings, on 0.7.17. The lock checksum matches the crates.io index, and the crate's VCS commit is the #326 merge 58cfc2aa51.

The parser-route status. I reused the test setup of lib/llm/tests/chat_template_render_errors.rs. The real OpenAIPreprocessor runs ahead of an echo backend inside the HTTP service, with a model that has no tool or reasoning parser. At a67a55976a, tool_choice: "required" and a named tool got 500 under =2 or old flag true. This held with and without stream, and the body was Failed to generate completions. At d81e2fc4fc they get 400. Unset and =1 give 200 at both heads, and main gives 200 in every mode. In every run, a guided-decoding conflict gives 400 and a plain request gives 200. coderabbitai's one-click suggestion alone left the 500, because the first site raises this error. With both old sites put back at d81e2fc4fc, the tightened test fails with request-route errors must retain their InvalidArgument classification, and the probe gives 500 again.

The quoted opener. In r1003 all six families cut The literal "<opener>" marker is part of the explanation. after The literal " under V2. Now they keep the whole text in stream and batch, with stop and length. DeepSeek V4.1 on its default route keeps it too. With 0.7.13 and the same code, all six cut it again. With the flag unset and with =2, a plain sentence keeps its text in every row. I did not find the other V2 case that the guide names. Under V2, no family loses text with tools in the request, or at any split into two chunks. With the flag unset and tools in the request, five families cut it on their V1 route with stop, and main does the same. They are GLM 4.7, DeepSeek V4, Kimi K2, Gemma 4 and Kimi K3.

The kimi_k3 opener. I tested five modes: unset, 1, 2, auto, and old flag true. In each mode, the parser starts in reasoning, with reasoning_ended: false. It does so for the opener with spaces, a tab and a newline, a trailing space, or Unicode spaces. <|open|>thinking<|sep|> and text after the opener do not. On main, only an opener with no space inside it starts in reasoning. The check also ignores spaces inside a marker, for example <|op en|>think<|s ep|>. Templates do not render that, so I do not grade it.

The old flag. Startup through RuntimeConfig::from_settings fails for enabled and y with Invalid boolean value: 'enabled'. Expected one of: true/false, 1/0, on/off, yes/no, and passes for true. On main, all three values pass. With true, these requests get DYN_PARSER_VERSION=2 was requested, ...: Hermes with auto or required, DeepSeek R1 with required, and a card with no parser with required. main serves all of them.

The v1.3.0 notes. docs_lint.py --scan docs gives the same output, 0 errors, with this edit and with the line from main. A planted tracker ID and TODO in the same file make it fail, so the rule reads this file. gen_llms_tables.py --check passes in all three cases. Tag v1.3.0 (8ce9e22f11) defines and reads DYN_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_PARSERS_V2, and has no DYN_PARSER_VERSION.

The .pyc. On the host, python3 -B -m unittest discover -s lib/sidecar -p test_build_cache.py passes and writes no .pyc. The same command without -B writes lib/sidecar/__pycache__/test_build_cache.cpython-312.pyc.

Merge with main. At 5e82beb24f the merge has no conflicts. The two new main commits change only comments, docs and container/deps/requirements.sglang.txt, all outside this PR.

CI. On a67a55976a, all 131 check runs completed without a failure: 84 passed and 47 were skipped. There, Pre Merge passed 8,280 Rust tests on the merge with b7981eaf09, and the PR run passed, with rust-gpu and the sidecar image build. On d81e2fc4fc at 07:13Z, no check had failed. Its Pre Merge rust-tests (.) job had passed the doc-test and unit-test steps and was in a last compile step. In all, 12 check runs were still in progress.

[keivenchang]

Replying to #14950 (review): I’m keeping user-facing docs focused on DYN_PARSER_VERSION as requested. The old flag remains a boolean compatibility alias: true selects V2, and malformed values fail startup. The v1.3.0 note stays generic so it does not document the old flag as current configuration.

[keivenchang]

This PR changes V2 parser selection and integration in lib/runtime and lib/llm. The sidecar edits fix an existing shared-cache problem that can affect any workspace change, including this parser work.

A sidecar is a CPU-only Dynamo worker that talks to a separate inference engine. The boxes below show each sidecar's Cargo build dependencies. The V2 integration is in lib/llm, which depends on the dynamo-parsers-v2 parser library from frontend-crates:

flowchart TB
  subgraph V["vLLM sidecar build"]
    VL["dynamo-llm<br/>V2 integration: lib/llm"] --> VP["dynamo-parsers-v2<br/>frontend-crates V2 parser library"]
  end
  subgraph S["SGLang sidecar build"]
    SL["dynamo-llm<br/>V2 integration: lib/llm"] --> SP["dynamo-parsers-v2<br/>frontend-crates V2 parser library"]
  end
  subgraph T["TRT-LLM sidecar build"]
    TC["dynamo-backend-common"] --> TL["dynamo-llm<br/>V2 integration: lib/llm"]
    TL --> TP["dynamo-parsers-v2<br/>frontend-crates V2 parser library"]
  end
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  class VL,VP,SL,SP,TL,TP changed;

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All three sidecar builds depend on the shared dynamo-llm crate: vLLM and SGLang directly, and TRT-LLM through dynamo-backend-common. Those build dependencies explain why changes to the shared library matter to the sidecar image.

The Dockerfile already shared compiled Cargo artifacts across the three builders. A fresh checkout can have older file timestamps than those artifacts, causing Cargo to reuse an outdated local crate or generated source. The previous workaround required manually changing the cache version. This PR makes input tracking automatic:

flowchart LR
  W["Workspace source"] --> H["NEW: build-with-cache.sh<br/>hash inputs; align timestamps"]
  H --> C["Cargo build<br/>shared target cache"]
  C --> B["Three sidecar binaries"]
  T["NEW: test_build_cache.py"] -. verifies .-> H
  classDef changed fill:#e8f5e9,stroke:#2e7d32,stroke-width:2px;
  class H,T changed;

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• build-with-cache.sh hashes the copied workspace files, excluding the target cache. Changed contents advance a shared timestamp and invalidate stale local builds. Identical contents keep that timestamp so the builders can reuse valid artifacts.
• test_build_cache.py defines regressions for ordinary Rust inputs, build-script-generated source, unchanged-input reuse, and resuming after a failed build. It also checks that all three Docker builders use the helper.

The changed lib/sidecar/Dockerfile runs the regression tests and calls the helper under the locked cache mount. Green marks the shared V2 dependencies and the two new build scripts. These are Cargo dependency trees; the selected parser route still depends on the runtime configuration.