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Purpose

Fixes #55659.

Treat Responses additional_tools input items as structural request
configuration. Their tool definitions are appended to the effective top-level
tool list, and the items are removed from conversation input before chat or
Harmony rendering.

This supports clients such as Codex's Responses Lite path, which can send
client tool definitions only in an additional_tools input item and omit the
top-level tools field.

Why this is not a duplicate

Changes

  • Recognize both raw dictionary and typed SDK AdditionalTools input items.
  • Validate raw items with the OpenAI SDK model.
  • Preserve top-level tool order, followed by additional tools in input order.
  • Remove the structural items from ResponsesRequest.input before message
    construction.
  • Run existing tool-choice validation against the combined tool list.

Test Plan

Run the focused Responses request-parsing and message-construction suites, then
run every pre-commit hook applicable to the changed files.

No model evaluation is needed because this change only normalizes request
protocol data; it does not change model execution or output algorithms.

Test Result

PYTHONPATH=. .venv/bin/python -m pytest \
  tests/entrypoints/openai/responses/test_function_call_parsing.py \
  tests/entrypoints/openai/responses/test_responses_utils.py -q

57 passed, 14 warnings in 8.77s
.venv/bin/pre-commit run --files \
  vllm/entrypoints/openai/responses/protocol.py \
  tests/entrypoints/openai/responses/test_function_call_parsing.py

All hooks passed.

The minimal reproducer was also run against unmodified upstream main at
ed29dfae6e76235e01fcc0eca21cf0dcbfc40af1 and failed with:

AttributeError: 'AdditionalTools' object has no attribute 'get'

With this change, the same request produces one user chat message and an
effective tool list containing exec.

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This change was developed with OpenAI Codex assistance.

The human submitter reviewed every changed line, confirmed they understand the
request-normalization behavior, and approved the tested change before this PR
was submitted, as required by vLLM's contribution policy.

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Signed-off-by: derek <derek.yates@live.com>

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  • New Features

    • Added support for promoting additional tools embedded in response request inputs to the top-level tool configuration.
    • Supports typed additional-tool items and equivalent dictionary-form inputs.
    • Preserves extracted tool order while combining them with existing top-level tools.
    • Supports iterable request inputs when processing embedded additional tools.
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    • Added coverage for single, multiple, typed, and dictionary-form additional-tool scenarios.

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ResponsesRequest.check_tool_usage now normalizes iterable input, extracts additional_tools items, merges their tools into the top-level tool list, and removes them from message input. Tests cover dictionary and typed representations, ordering, and tool choice.

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Additional tools support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Promote embedded tools
vllm/entrypoints/openai/responses/protocol.py
check_tool_usage normalizes iterable input, recognizes typed and dictionary-based additional_tools items, collects their tools, removes those items from input, and appends the tools to data["tools"].
Validate promotion behavior
tests/entrypoints/openai/responses/test_function_call_parsing.py
Tests verify single-tool promotion, ordering with top-level tools, preserved tool_choice, and typed AdditionalTools input in a tuple.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 688a2

Responses requests can now supply tools through additional_tools without rendering those configuration items as conversation messages, including typed SDK inputs and requests without top-level tools. No concrete current-head merge risk remains.

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Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the additional_tools handling, tool merging, input removal, tests, and linked issue.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue #55659 by supporting typed and raw additional_tools items, merging their tools after top-level tools, removing structural items before message construction, and preventing th…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes are limited to Responses request normalization and focused regression tests for the linked issue.
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I independently reviewed this PR after applying both commits cleanly on current main (114abd1c1). The valid path looks correct, and the two focused suites pass locally (57 tests total).

There is one fail-closed edge case worth fixing before merge: malformed additional_tools carriers are still accepted instead of reaching normal validation. For example:

request = ResponsesRequest.model_validate({
    "model": "test",
    "input": [
        {
            "id": "at_bad",
            "type": "additional_tools",
            "role": "developer",
            "tools": [{"type": "function"}],
        },
        {"role": "user", "content": "hello"},
    ],
})

This succeeds with request.tools == [] and leaves the carrier as a plain dict in request.input. The except ValidationError: input_items.append(item) path does not guarantee later rejection: the Responses input union accepts this shape, and current main now treats any dict containing role as a message. A malformed structural carrier can therefore be silently converted into conversation input.

Could this branch raise a VLLMValidationError when an item explicitly declares type == "additional_tools" but AdditionalTools(**item) fails, with a regression for a missing tool name or invalid parameters? That preserves the intended distinction between unsupported/malformed structural configuration and chat messages.

Minor library-facing point: the before-validator currently mutates the caller's input mapping in place (a tuple becomes a list, carriers are removed, and parsed tool objects can enter the original mapping). A shallow copy of data before normalization would avoid observable caller-side mutation.

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