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fix(parser): stop leaking partially delivered DSML tags into streamed tool arguments - #53405

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Purpose

While streaming DeepSeek V4 tool calls (stream: true + tool_choice: required), an in-progress parameter value can be followed by the beginning of its closing tag </|DSML|parameter>, because a chunk boundary may land anywhere inside that tag. The partial matcher in _dsml_arg_converter used a greedy (.*)$, so the truncated tag fragment was captured into the argument value:

{"location": "Paris</|DSML|parameter"}

This corrupts streamed tool arguments for every agent harness consuming them.

Changes

  • Add _TAG_PREFIXES, the set of all non-empty prefixes of </|DSML|parameter> and of <|DSML.
  • Add _strip_partial_dsml_tag(): trim the partial value at the earliest offset where the remainder is one of those prefixes. Applied only in the partial branch; the complete-parameter path is untouched.
  • Three regression tests in TestArgConverter, including truncation in the middle of the closing tag.

Why prefix trimming instead of a tempered regex

A tempered pattern such as (?:(?!</?|DSML|).)* only stops when it can see the full |DSML| sequence. Streaming truncation can land earlier than that — e.g. a value ending in y</|DSM still leaks under that approach (verified experimentally). Checking whether any suffix of the value is a prefix of a DSML tag handles every truncation point exactly, and leaves ordinary angle brackets in values (a<b) untouched.

Test Plan

  • New unit tests: partial closing tag missing final > (the issue's repro), closing tag truncated midway (y</|DSM), invalid in-progress JSON plus close remnant stays omitted.
  • Full TestArgConverter class passes against the patched converter (20/20), and plain < values keep working via the existing angle-bracket tests.

Fixes #53227

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While streaming DeepSeek V4 tool calls, an in-progress parameter value can
be followed by the beginning of its closing tag (`</|DSML|parameter>`),
because a chunk boundary may land anywhere inside that tag. The partial
matcher used a greedy `(.*)$`, so the truncated tag fragment was captured
into the argument value, e.g. `{"location": "Paris</|DSML|parameter"}`.

Fix by trimming any trailing fragment of the partial value that is a prefix
of a DSML tag (the parameter closing tag or the next `<|DSML|...`
opening), at the earliest offset where such a fragment starts. Checking
prefixes instead of matching the full marker handles truncation at every
position inside the tag; plain angle brackets in values are unaffected.

Fixes vllm-project#53227

Signed-off-by: fei <204683769+feiiiiii5@users.noreply.github.com>

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Thanks for the note! Understood on the CI policy — the change is localized to the streaming tool-argument parser (with a regression test covering the split-tag case). Could a reviewer trigger /ci run when convenient? Happy to address any lint or test feedback that surfaces.

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This pull request has merge conflicts that must be resolved before it can be
merged. Please rebase the PR, @feiiiiii5.

https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/working-with-forks/syncing-a-fork

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Closing: the underlying issue #53227 has been closed (marked completed), this PR has had no maintainer traction (vLLM needs a maintainer to add the ready/verified labels and trigger CI), and it now carries merge conflicts. The fix (stop the partial-parameter matcher _PARTIAL_PARAM_RE from leaking truncated DSML tag fragments into streamed tool arguments) is preserved on the branch; happy to reopen and rebase if there is interest.

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[Bug]: DeepSeek V4 streaming tool calls leak DSML markup into arguments

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