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[None][fix] Kimi-K3 tool parser: read calls whose close tags are missing - #21112
Kimi-K3 sometimes leaves a close tag out of a tool call. In a production deployment serving agent
traffic, about 0.02% of Kimi-K3 replies had this shape. The kimi_k3 tool parser read a call from
its header to the first <|close|>call<|sep|>, and an argument only up to its <|close|>argument<|sep|>. So such a call:
was dropped when its <|close|>call<|sep|> was missing at the end of the section, or when the
model closed its response and message instead;
was delivered without the argument whose <|close|>argument<|sep|> was missing;
took the next call's arguments when its <|close|>call<|sep|> was missing before that call, and
the next call was lost.
In each case the action the model asked for did not run as asked.
The parser now reads a call whose close tags are missing where its end is not in doubt:
a call whose last argument is complete, followed straight by the next call, or by close tags
that end the section (<|close|>tools<|sep|>, or <|close|>response<|sep|> and the message
framing);
a value followed straight by <|close|>call<|sep|>, before the next call or before close tags
that end the section;
a value followed by close tags that end the generation, such as <|close|>response<|sep|> and
the message framing.
It still does not read:
a call that stops inside a value or after an argument, since the generation may have been cut off
there;
a value followed by <|close|>call<|sep|> and then other text, since the value may contain that
tag;
a value that only <|close|>tools<|sep|> follows: the section ends at the first such tag, and a
value may quote it.
Calls read this way are logged as a warning that names the missing tags. The reading depends only on
the tools section, so the stream and the final response recover the same calls. A call the parser
read correctly before reads the same. The change is in KimiK3ToolParser only; the Kimi-K3
reasoning parser already passes the whole tools section through.
Not changed: a value is still cut at the first close tag of its own kind that it contains. Where a
value quotes <|close|>call<|sep|> at a place where a call can end, the part before that tag is now
delivered instead of being dropped.
An earlier version of this PR also rewrote both Kimi-K3 parsers so that streaming and whole-text
parsing share one state machine. That rewrite, and the reasoning-parser fixes made on top of it, are
dropped: the shapes they handled (a second tools section, text after a section, text outside any
channel) were not seen in real traffic.
Test Coverage
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_tool_parsers.py, TestKimiK3ToolParser (run in l0_cpu.yml),
8 new tests with small inline inputs:
test_call_with_missing_close_tags_is_read (6 cases): each shape above, read through the Kimi-K3
reasoning parser and this parser the way serving chains them. The whole text and the stream under
every chunking (whole, per character, fixed sizes, every two-way split) must give the same calls.
The same generation cut off before the tags that end the call must give no call.
test_value_without_close_tag_is_read_only_where_the_call_ends: a value is read up to <|close|>call<|sep|> at the end of the generation, but not when other text follows that tag, and
not when only <|close|>tools<|sep|> follows the value.
test_call_read_without_close_tags_is_logged: the warning names the missing tag.
All 8 fail on main by assertion: main drops the call, drops the value, or merges two calls. Each
recovery rule and each guard was also disabled in turn, and a new test failed every time.
Run locally on CPU without the compiled bindings, test_tool_parsers.py and test_reasoning_parser.py give 1495 passed here and 1487 on main. The same 37 tests fail on both:
Qwen3-Coder grammar tests that need xgrammar, which that environment lacks. A local randomized
check (not committed) read well-formed tools sections, and every truncation of them, the same way
on main and on this branch.
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The Kimi K3 reasoning and tool parsers now share XTML scanning for channel routing and tool-call extraction. Both parsers buffer ambiguous streamed input and resolve it at finalization. Tests compare whole-generation and streamed results across chunk boundaries and markup cases.
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Kimi K3 parsing
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Summary
XTML grammar and scanning tensorrt_llm/llmapi/reasoning_parser.py
The reasoning parser defines XTML structures and scans attributes, calls, think blocks, tools sections, and message framing.
Channel routing and streaming tensorrt_llm/llmapi/reasoning_parser.py, tests/unittest/llmapi/test_reasoning_parser.py
The reasoning parser routes channel and tools-section content, buffers unresolved markers, and resolves held input at finalization. Tests compare one-shot and streamed parsing across chunkings.
Shared scanning and tool emission tensorrt_llm/serve/tool_parser/kimi_k3_tool_parser.py, tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_tool_parsers.py
The tool parser uses shared XTML scanning to buffer sections, preserve argument text, emit calls, and handle finalization. Tests compare whole-generation and streamed results across varied inputs and chunk boundaries.
sequenceDiagram
participant Generation
participant KimiK3ReasoningParser
participant KimiK3ToolParser
Generation->>KimiK3ReasoningParser: Scan XTML and route channels
KimiK3ReasoningParser->>KimiK3ToolParser: Provide tool-call content
KimiK3ToolParser->>KimiK3ToolParser: Emit calls or release text
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Possibly related issues
NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#20993 — The parser catches ValueError and RecursionError during JSON validation and preserves values that are not valid JSON as raw text. The MiniMax-M3 part of the issue is not changed.
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K3 streaming and final parsing now share a state machine. No material merge risk was established.
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Add an explicit event-order assertion for think_inside_tools_section.
That corpus entry places reconsidering between the ls and pwd calls. The chunking-invariance test uses the one-chunk result as its reference, so it can pass with a consistently incorrect event order. Add this case to test_pipeline_events_follow_the_generation and assert the intended position of the reasoning event.
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Add a `think_inside_tools_section` case to
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- Around line 1743-1751: Update _scan_think to stop an unclosed think item at
the earliest subsequent TOOLS_END or section-break boundary, preserving the
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- Around line 1750-1753: Update _scan_think so a TOOLS_OPEN marker ends the
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Add a corpus case for the terminal _close_run branch.
section_inside_unclosed_think already covers the tools_section_opens(...) == True branch. Add only the remaining case for _close_run(...) == True.
Use one completed call, an unclosed think block, f"{K3_CLOSE}response{K3_SEP}", and K3_MESSAGE_END. Omit K3_TOOLS_END and K3_EOT. Assert the expected reasoning, content, and call list for all whole-text and streamed readings in _k3_chunkings.
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@coderabbitai Added in 7467ff5: K3_CORPUS case unclosed_think_inside_tools_section_before_closing_run. It has one complete call, then an unclosed think block, then <|close|>response<|sep|> and the message end, with no section close tag. It goes through _close_run(...) == True in _scan_think and is checked on the whole-text reading and every _k3_chunkings chunking, streamed and chained.
Writing it showed a leak in that branch. With the response channel already closed, the run's <|close|>response<|sep|> reached the client as text. The block now takes the run's stray close tags with it, as a call left open does (_past_stray_closes). The case fails if that branch never ends the block, and it fails without the absorption.
#!/bin/bash
ast-grep outline tensorrt_llm/llmapi/reasoning_parser.py --items all --match 'KimiK3' --view expanded
sed -n '1595,1630p' tensorrt_llm/llmapi/reasoning_parser.py
sed -n '1740,1815p' tensorrt_llm/llmapi/reasoning_parser.py
sed -n '6883,6907p' tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_tool_parsers.py
sed -n '6932,6989p' tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_tool_parsers.py
sed -n '7080,7155p' tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_tool_parsers.py
Length of output: 15848
@JunyiXu-nv Confirmed by source inspection at 7467ff5a.
_scan_think now advances past stray close tags when _close_run(...) returns True. It keeps those tags out of the reasoning body and leaves message framing for separate handling.
The new corpus case expects tunclosed thought, no visible text, and one preserved exec call.
The parameterized tests include this case in whole-text, streaming, and chained checks across every _k3_chunkings variant.
This covers the reported branch and the close-tag leak. I did not run the tests, so runtime results remain unverified.
Kimi-K3 sometimes leaves a close tag out of a tool call: about 0.02% of
its replies in a production deployment serving agent traffic. The parser
read a call only from its header to the first <|close|>call<|sep|>, and an
argument only up to its <|close|>argument<|sep|>. Such a call was dropped,
delivered without the argument whose close tag was missing, or merged with
the next call, whose arguments it took.
A call whose close tags are missing is now read where its end is not in
doubt:
- a call whose last argument is complete, followed straight by the next
call, or by close tags that end the section, the section's own included;
- a value followed straight by <|close|>call<|sep|>, before the next call
or before close tags that end the section;
- a value followed by close tags that end the generation, such as
<|close|>response<|sep|> and the message framing.
A call that stops inside a value or after an argument is still not read,
since the generation may have been cut off there. Neither is a value that
only the section's close tag follows, since a value may quote that tag.
Calls read this way are logged as a warning that names the missing tags.
The reading depends only on the tools section, so the stream and the final
response agree. A call the parser read correctly before reads the same.
Signed-off-by: JunyiXu-nv <219237550+JunyiXu-nv@users.noreply.github.com>
JunyiXu-nv
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[None][fix] Kimi-K3 parsers: one reading for stream and final response, and read calls with missing close tags
[None][fix] Kimi-K3 tool parser: read calls whose close tags are missing
Nov 10, 2026
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Description
Kimi-K3 sometimes leaves a close tag out of a tool call. In a production deployment serving agent
traffic, about 0.02% of Kimi-K3 replies had this shape. The
kimi_k3tool parser read a call fromits header to the first
<|close|>call<|sep|>, and an argument only up to its<|close|>argument<|sep|>. So such a call:<|close|>call<|sep|>was missing at the end of the section, or when themodel closed its response and message instead;
<|close|>argument<|sep|>was missing;<|close|>call<|sep|>was missing before that call, andthe next call was lost.
In each case the action the model asked for did not run as asked.
The parser now reads a call whose close tags are missing where its end is not in doubt:
that end the section (
<|close|>tools<|sep|>, or<|close|>response<|sep|>and the messageframing);
<|close|>call<|sep|>, before the next call or before close tagsthat end the section;
<|close|>response<|sep|>andthe message framing.
It still does not read:
there;
<|close|>call<|sep|>and then other text, since the value may contain thattag;
<|close|>tools<|sep|>follows: the section ends at the first such tag, and avalue may quote it.
Calls read this way are logged as a warning that names the missing tags. The reading depends only on
the tools section, so the stream and the final response recover the same calls. A call the parser
read correctly before reads the same. The change is in
KimiK3ToolParseronly; the Kimi-K3reasoning parser already passes the whole tools section through.
Not changed: a value is still cut at the first close tag of its own kind that it contains. Where a
value quotes
<|close|>call<|sep|>at a place where a call can end, the part before that tag is nowdelivered instead of being dropped.
An earlier version of this PR also rewrote both Kimi-K3 parsers so that streaming and whole-text
parsing share one state machine. That rewrite, and the reasoning-parser fixes made on top of it, are
dropped: the shapes they handled (a second tools section, text after a section, text outside any
channel) were not seen in real traffic.
Test Coverage
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_tool_parsers.py,TestKimiK3ToolParser(run inl0_cpu.yml),8 new tests with small inline inputs:
test_call_with_missing_close_tags_is_read(6 cases): each shape above, read through the Kimi-K3reasoning parser and this parser the way serving chains them. The whole text and the stream under
every chunking (whole, per character, fixed sizes, every two-way split) must give the same calls.
The same generation cut off before the tags that end the call must give no call.
test_value_without_close_tag_is_read_only_where_the_call_ends: a value is read up to<|close|>call<|sep|>at the end of the generation, but not when other text follows that tag, andnot when only
<|close|>tools<|sep|>follows the value.test_call_read_without_close_tags_is_logged: the warning names the missing tag.All 8 fail on main by assertion: main drops the call, drops the value, or merges two calls. Each
recovery rule and each guard was also disabled in turn, and a new test failed every time.
Run locally on CPU without the compiled bindings,
test_tool_parsers.pyandtest_reasoning_parser.pygive 1495 passed here and 1487 on main. The same 37 tests fail on both:Qwen3-Coder grammar tests that need
xgrammar, which that environment lacks. A local randomizedcheck (not committed) read well-formed tools sections, and every truncation of them, the same way
on main and on this branch.
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