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OpenAI Responses API supports Tool/Function calling

Follow up #20504

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This pull request significantly extends the functionality of the OpenAI Responses API by adding support for tool and function calling. The changes involve modifying the request processing pipeline to interpret tool definitions, dynamically generating guided decoding constraints for model output, and restructuring the API response to include detailed function call information. This enables the system to leverage external tools and APIs through the language model's capabilities.

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  • Tool/Function Calling Support: Implemented comprehensive support for OpenAI-style tool/function calling within the Responses API, enabling the model to generate structured tool calls based on provided tool definitions and user prompts.
  • Dynamic Guided Decoding for Tools: Enhanced the guided decoding mechanism to dynamically generate JSON schemas for tool calls. This allows the model to be constrained to output valid JSON for function arguments, based on the tool_choice and tools parameters in the request.
  • Extended Response Format: Modified the ResponsesResponse output type to include ResponseFunctionToolCall objects. This ensures that the API can return structured information about the function calls generated by the model.
  • Tool Parsing Integration: Integrated a ToolParser to extract and format function calls from the model's generated output. This supports various tool_choice modes, including 'auto', 'required', and specific named function calls.
  • New Configuration Options: Introduced new configuration options (enable_auto_tools, expand_tools_even_if_tool_choice_none) to provide granular control over tool parsing behavior and how tool definitions are handled in the prompt.
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Code Review

This pull request introduces Tool/Function calling support to the OpenAI Responses API. The changes involve protocol modifications, serving engine updates, and response serving logic enhancements. The review identifies a critical bug related to empty responses, a high-severity issue concerning data mutation, and some medium-severity issues regarding debug statements and type checking.

@mergify mergify bot added deepseek Related to DeepSeek models llama Related to Llama models v1 labels Jul 13, 2025
@mergify mergify bot added the documentation Improvements or additions to documentation label Jul 14, 2025
@chaunceyjiang chaunceyjiang marked this pull request as ready for review July 14, 2025 06:46
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@WoosukKwon @aarnphm PTAL.

self, request: ChatCompletionRequest) -> ChatCompletionRequest:
self, request: Union[ChatCompletionRequest, ResponsesRequest]
) -> Union[ChatCompletionRequest, ResponsesRequest]:
if not isinstance(request, ChatCompletionRequest):
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This will come back to bite us when we introduce sampling_params support for ResponsesRequest but forget to update these lines

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This is because ResponsesRequest does not have the skip_special_tokens attribute, which forces me to add this check.

Should I add a skip_special_tokens attribute to ResponsesRequest and mark it as not yet implemented for now? What do you think?

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[Frontend] OpenAI Responses API supports Tool/Function calling

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