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Purpose

Two ways a tool call reaches the client without its arguments on this branch.
In each the client answers "invalid arguments" and the model spends a round
rediscovering what it already said. Found while serving Muse-Glimmer-30B from
this branch to an agentic client that reads and writes files.

  1. A parameter declared type: string is JSON-decoded. _decode_value runs
    on every value, so a client writing a JSONL line to a file gets
    SchemaError(Expected string, got {...} at ["content"]) and the write is
    rejected. Declared string parameters are now left as strings; everything else
    decodes as before.

  2. The model sometimes swallows the opening <atem:parameter> tag and glues
    its name onto the invoke name, leaving the value as the body of the block:

    <atem:invoke name="read.filePath">/tmp/norm.txt</atem:parameter>
    </atem:invoke>

    No <atem:parameter> pair matches, so args comes out empty and the client
    reports Missing key at ["filePath"]. The value is recovered from the body
    when the emitted name carried the parameter name.

The second shape also needs read.filePath to bind to read, so
_normalize_name collapses a head that is itself registered, not just the
doubled head == tail form. Suffix matching stays refused - in both shapes the
model actually emits, the tool is named in the head - so
test_unregistered_namespace_is_preserved keeps passing unchanged.

Test Plan

tests/tool_use/test_muse_glimmer.py - the existing suite plus four new tests:
the two malformed shapes, and the two cases that must NOT change (an undeclared
parameter still decodes; a parameterless namespaced call is left alone).

Test Result

test before after
test_string_parameter_is_not_json_decoded fail pass
test_swallowed_parameter_tag_recovers_argument fail pass
test_undeclared_parameter_still_decodes pass pass
test_parameterless_namespaced_call_is_left_alone pass pass
test_unregistered_namespace_is_preserved and the other name/decoding tests pass pass

Rebased onto the current head of this branch; the two new tests fail against it
and pass with this change, and nothing that passed before regresses.

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Two ways a tool call reaches the client without its arguments. In each the
client answers "invalid arguments" and the model spends a round rediscovering
what it already said. Found serving Muse-Glimmer-30B from this branch to an
agentic client that reads and writes files.

1. `_decode_value` ran on every parameter, including those the tool declares as
   `type: string`. A client writing a JSONL line to a file got

       SchemaError(Expected string, got {"span": ...} at ["content"])

   and the whole write was rejected. Declared string parameters are now left as
   strings; everything else decodes as before.

2. The model sometimes swallows the opening `<atem:parameter>` tag and glues its
   name onto the invoke name, leaving the value as the body of the block:

       <atem:invoke name="read.filePath">/tmp/norm.txt</atem:parameter>
       </atem:invoke>

   No `<atem:parameter>` pair matches, so the call arrived with no arguments at
   all ("Missing key at [filePath]"). The value is recovered from the body when
   the emitted name carried the parameter name.

The second shape also needs `read.filePath` to bind to `read`, so
`_normalize_name` now collapses a HEAD that is itself registered, not just the
doubled `head == tail` form. Suffix matching stays refused, so
`test_unregistered_namespace_is_preserved` keeps passing: the tool is named in
the head in both shapes the model actually emits.

Four tests added: the two malformed shapes, plus the two cases that must NOT
change - an undeclared parameter still decodes, and a parameterless namespaced
call is left alone.

Signed-off-by: Jan Herold <84327552+honziik@users.noreply.github.com>
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