[JRJRJPRO]

Purpose

Non-Harmony chat templates only render function tools. Responses namespace functions are flattened to <namespace>__<name>, and builtin tools (mcp, web_search, ...) are dropped (construct_tool_dicts). The tool-call structural tag was built from every request tool instead, so the grammar and the prompt disagreed:

• Builtin-only tools: they produce no grammar rule, so the tag is empty and xgrammar rejects it. Since [Frontend] Constrain non-strict GLM-4.7 tool calls with a shallow structural tag #56403 this returns 400 for every GLM-4.7 Responses request whose tools are all builtin. PLaMo3, MiMo and HY-V4 fail the same way, and so does any model with tool_choice="required" (an opaque 400, or a bare AssertionError inside xgrammar).
• Namespace functions: the model is shown them but has no grammar rule for them. Under a constrained grammar it is blocked from calling them, or forced into a different tool. The legacy JSON-schema path, used when strict tool calling is off, silently returned an empty completed response for required with only builtin tools.

The first commit fixed the GLM-4.7 builder only. This change fixes it at the shared entry point:

• get_function_tools() (vllm/tool_parsers/utils.py) is the single source of the tools the model is shown. The prompt helpers, get_structural_tag_tools() in the structural tag registry, and the legacy JSON-schema required path are all built from it, so the prompt and the grammar cannot drift apart.
• Harmony can call builtin tools, so it opts out with register_vllm_structural_tag("harmony", builtin_tools=True).
• When no callable tool remains, auto gets no grammar, as before [Frontend] Constrain non-strict GLM-4.7 tool calls with a shallow structural tag #56403, and required or named tool choice returns a 400 with param: "tool_choice".
• The rendered prompt is byte-identical to before.
• The GLM-4.7-only fallback from the first commit is removed: the shared filtering makes it unreachable.

Test Plan

Live before/after on one H200 with Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B. The same 10 requests were sent to main 55b80221ed with and without this diff, under three server configs:

vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B --max-model-len 4096 --no-enable-prefix-caching \
  --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser hermes --reasoning-parser qwen3 \
  --default-chat-template-kwargs '{"enable_thinking":false}'
# 2) same, with --tool-call-parser glm47 (no reasoning parser): the GLM-4.7 tag path;
#    it fails while preparing the request, before generation, so GLM weights are not needed
# 3) same as 1) with VLLM_ENFORCE_STRICT_TOOL_CALLING=0: the legacy JSON-schema path

Builtin-only tools:

curl -s localhost:8000/v1/responses -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{
  "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B", "input": "What is the capital of France? Answer in one word.",
  "tools": [{"type": "web_search"}], "max_output_tokens": 64}'

Function tool plus a namespace tool (also sent with "parallel_tool_calls": false, with "stream": true, and with only the namespace tool):

curl -s localhost:8000/v1/responses -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{
  "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B", "input": "Look up customer 42 in the CRM.", "tool_choice": "required",
  "tools": [
    {"type": "function", "name": "get_weather", "description": "Get the current weather for a city",
     "parameters": {"type": "object", "properties": {"city": {"type": "string"}}, "required": ["city"]}},
    {"type": "namespace", "name": "crm", "description": "Customer relationship management tools",
     "tools": [{"type": "function", "name": "lookup_customer", "description": "Look up a customer record by id",
                "parameters": {"type": "object", "properties": {"id": {"type": "string"}}, "required": ["id"]}}]}]}'

Regression requests: get_weather alone with required on /v1/responses, and a streamed /v1/chat/completions call with get_weather.

Test Result

Config	Request	main	this PR
glm47	builtin only, auto (with and without parallel_tool_calls: false)	400 Invalid grammar specification: 'triggers'	200, text answer
glm47	namespace tool only, parallel_tool_calls: false	400 Invalid grammar specification: 'triggers'	200, calls crm.lookup_customer
hermes, glm47	get_weather + crm namespace, required (also streamed)	calls get_weather	calls crm.lookup_customer
hermes, glm47	same, auto + parallel_tool_calls: false (glm47 also plain auto)	calls get_weather	calls crm.lookup_customer
hermes, glm47	builtin only, required	400 Invalid grammar specification: 'triggers', param: null	400 tool_choice requires a function call, but tools contains no function tool the model can call., param: "tool_choice"
legacy JSON path	builtin only, required	200 completed with empty output (schema anyOf: [])	the same 400 as above

On hermes, the namespace requests went from get_weather({"city": "New York"}) to lookup_customer({"id": "42"}), with namespace: "crm" in the Responses output.

Hermes with plain auto applies no grammar, on main and with this PR. Its namespace requests under plain auto and the regression requests produce the same output on both sides; only generated call IDs differ. The glm47 regression output is also identical: {} arguments on both sides, because the Qwen model is forced into GLM's call format.

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[chrikrah]

@JRJRJPRO your fallback compiles to the same grammar xgrammar's own builtin emits for glm_4_7 with no tools, identical bytes and identical excludes, and I would take this. Keeping <tool_call> excluded costs nothing either, since only the elif has to let the trigger through.

# xgrammar==0.2.8 (requirements/common.txt:29), export of b4e29e1 on PYTHONPATH
$ python - <<'EOF'
from xgrammar import Grammar, get_model_structural_tag as upstream
from openai.types.responses import WebSearchTool
from vllm.tool_parsers.structural_tag_registry import get_glm_4_7_structural_tag as glm
mine = str(Grammar.from_structural_tag(glm([], [WebSearchTool(type="web_search")], "auto", False)))
theirs = str(Grammar.from_structural_tag(upstream(model="glm_4_7", tools=[], tool_choice="auto", reasoning=False)))
print("branch == xgrammar builtin:", mine == theirs)
print(mine.strip())
EOF
branch == xgrammar builtin: True
any_text ::= TagDispatch(
  loop_after_dispatch=false,
  excludes=("<think>", "</think>", "<tool_call>", "</tool_call>", "<arg_key>", "</arg_key>", "<arg_value>", "</arg_value>")
)
root ::= ((any_text))

$ pytest tests/tool_parsers/test_structural_tag_registry.py -q    # at b4e29e1
244 passed in 356.78s
# same suite and your test, vllm/tool_parsers/structural_tag_registry.py from bc21cba
2 failed, 242 passed in 278.85s
E xgrammar.exception.InvalidStructuralTagError: Invalid structural tag error:
  Triggered tags format's tags must be non-empty
# not run: anything needing a GPU or a served model

non-blocking: the same builtin-only request still fails when it also carries a structured-output format. abstract_parser.py:548 copies an auto request to tool_choice="required" whenever one is present, which lands in the else at structural_tag_registry.py:1077 and builds TagsWithSeparatorFormat(tags=[], at_least_one=True). Your Validation repro at b4e29e1, unedited, then the same with a text.format added:

your repro as written   -> passes
same, plus text.format  -> VLLMValidationError: Invalid structural tag specification.

@sfeng33 you own this path and merged #56403. Does the revert run above cover you, or would you want that required branch folded in here before it goes?

[JRJRJPRO]

Thanks @chrikrah. The required case isn't GLM-specific (all structural tag models fail the same way), so I fixed it in abstract_parser in #59950 and kept this PR scoped.

[sfeng33]

Thanks @JRJRJPRO, good catch on the empty GLM-4.7 tag. The same mismatch affects other models: grammars were built from every request tool, but the prompt only renders function tools, so builtin-only requests 400'd on several parsers, and namespace tools the model can see were blocked or redirected. I pushed 827e048, which builds both from one get_function_tools() helper and replaces the GLM-only fallback, which it makes unreachable.

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