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[None][fix] serve: warn when a requested output format cannot be enforced - #21414
A request can ask the OpenAI-compatible server for structured output: response_format
(json_schema, json_object, ...) on /v1/chat/completions and /v1/completions, text.format on /v1/responses, or output_config.format on /v1/messages, which the Anthropic adapter turns into a
chat response_format. The format becomes GuidedDecodingParams on the request's sampling params,
sometimes wrapped by a serving extension: the Kimi-K3 and gpt-oss extensions put the schema in a
structural tag on the model's answer channel.
When trtllm-serve was started without a guided decoding backend (guided_decoding_backend unset),
the engine has no guided decoder and ignores those params. The request is served unconstrained, and
nothing tells the operator or the client. Main already rejects a named tool_choice in this case,
because the forced call's arguments would be unconstrained text, but it says nothing when a requested
output format goes unenforced.
This change warns and does not reject. Clients such as Claude Code send structured-output side
requests whatever the server's configuration. Today those requests get an answer, unconstrained.
Rejecting them would break these clients on every server without a backend. So behaviour stays the
same, and the server logs that the format is accepted but not enforced. It does this once per process
and route, the way it already reports other accepted-but-not-enforced settings
(parallel_tool_calls=false and tool_choice values other than auto/none on Responses).
What the change does:
New OpenAIServer._warn_if_output_format_unenforced(sampling_params, route). When the sampling
params carry guided-decoding params and guided_decoding_backend is None, it calls logger.warning_once(..., key="<route>_output_format_unenforced"). Here is the chat route's message:
Chat Completions API: 'response_format' (Anthropic Messages API: 'output_config.format') is
accepted but not enforced: the server has no guided decoding backend, so the output is not
constrained to the requested format. Set guided_decoding_backend: xgrammar (or llguidance)
in the --config YAML to enforce it.
Each generation route calls the helper right after it builds its sampling params. That is before
the chat route adds any tool-call grammar, so only a requested format triggers the warning. Tools
with strict: true and forced or required tool calls do not.
/v1/chat/completions (openai_chat). This route also serves /v1/messages and Message Batches,
so an Anthropic request logs the chat route's warning, which names both fields.
The Harmony (gpt-oss) chat route chat_harmony. It uses the same chat key; the two chat
handlers are never registered together.
/v1/completions.
/v1/responses, on both the Harmony and the chat-template paths.
Disaggregated serving: the proxy (openai_disagg_server.py) builds no sampling params. It converts
Anthropic requests and forwards chat, completions and Responses requests to the workers, which run
the routes above. So the warning appears in the log of each worker process that has no backend, and
the proxy needs no change.
No behaviour or API change: response bodies, status codes and what reaches the engine stay the same.
The named-tool_choice 400 is unchanged, and a server with a backend logs nothing new. The only new
output is one WARNING line per route per process.
Not covered here: tools with strict: true are not enforced without a backend either. That stays
silent, because this warning is only about a requested output format.
Test Coverage
New file tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_openai_unenforced_output_format.py (CPU, cpu_only, added
to l0_cpu.yml). It is built on make_stub_openai_server: the real constructor, plus a stub engine
that records the sampling params it receives. Prompt rendering and each route's post-processing are
stubbed, and requests go through a FastAPI TestClient. The tests capture the TensorRT-LLM logger and
start each test with an empty warning_once key set, so "once" is the logger's real deduplication.
test_chat_format_is_served_and_warned_about_once: sends two chat requests with a response_format
json_schema. Both return 200, the schema reaches the engine both times, and exactly one warning is
logged. The warning names response_format, says it is accepted but not enforced for lack of a
guided decoding backend, and shows how to enable xgrammar or llguidance.
test_format_on_other_routes_is_served_and_warned_about (3 cases): completions response_format,
Responses text.format, and Anthropic /v1/messagesoutput_config.format. Each returns 200, the
schema reaches the engine, and one warning is logged. The Messages request logs the chat route's
warning.
test_constraint_an_extension_derives_from_the_format_is_warned_about: with the kimi_k3 reasoning
parser, the schema reaches the engine wrapped in a structural tag, and the warning is still logged.
test_each_route_warns_once: sends chat, messages, completions and Responses requests twice each.
Three warnings are logged, one per route; Messages shares the chat route's warning.
test_request_without_a_format_logs_nothing (4 routes): without a format, no guided decoding
params are built and no warning is logged.
test_server_with_a_backend_logs_nothing (4 routes x xgrammar/llguidance): the format reaches
the engine and no warning is logged.
test_harmony_chat_format_is_served_and_warned_about: on the gpt-oss chat path, the request
returns 200, a structural tag reaches the engine, and the chat warning is logged.
Results (run locally on CPU without the compiled bindings):
The 19 new tests all pass with this change. On main, 7 fail because no warning is logged; the
requests themselves are served the same way. The 12 that also pass on main are the guards that
must hold before and after: no warning without a format, and none with a backend.
I ran 51 files, with the new test file added on both sides: the 43 tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_*.py files, plus 8 disaggregated and executor test files that drive OpenAIServer routes. Main had 2084 passed, 89 failed and 201 errors; this branch had 2091 passed,
82 failed and 201 errors. The difference is exactly the 7 new tests, and nothing that passes on main
fails here. The shared failures come from the local environment (no model files, no compiled
bindings, multimodal providers not loaded) and are the same on both sides.
Mutation checks:
Removing the helper call from every route makes the 7 warning tests fail.
Removing it from one route makes that route's tests fail: 4 for chat, 2 for completions, 2 for
Responses, 1 for Harmony chat.
Warning even when a backend is set fails 8 tests; warning without a format fails 4.
Using one key for all routes fails 1 test; logging on every request instead of once fails 2.
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The server warns once per route when a request contains guided-decoding constraints and no backend is configured. The warning says the format is accepted but not enforced and recommends guided_decoding_backend: xgrammar. The call sites cover Chat Completions, Completions, Responses, and Harmony chat; Anthropic Messages uses the chat route. The warning does not reject the request. The existing named-tool tool_choice rejection remains in place. Strict-tool constraints without a backend are outside this warning.
No current review findings or severity counts were supplied.
QA Engineer Review
The new CPU-only test file covers warning wording and per-route deduplication; format handling across supported routes; requests without formats; configured backends; rejected requests; and Harmony structural-tag behavior. Its Harmony Responses test checks that the schema is in the final-channel tag. The CPU CI list includes the test file. No manual-QA list entry is shown. Coverage verdict: sufficient for the described warning behavior.
The author reports that all 19 new tests pass locally. The author also reports 2,091 passes, 82 failures, and 201 errors on this branch, compared with 2,084 passes, 89 failures, and 201 errors on main. These results were not independently verified. No completed CI result was supplied.
Per-File QA Perspective
tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py: Verify that the warning occurs only when a request has guided-decoding constraints and the server has no backend. Confirm requests remain served and named-tool rejection behavior is unchanged.
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_openai_unenforced_output_format.py: Tests route warnings, deduplication, backend and no-format cases, rejected requests, and Harmony tag behavior. Listed in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml for CPU CI; no manual-QA entry is shown.
tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml: Adds the new test file to the CPU CI list. No manual-QA list change is shown.
…rced
A request that asks for a structured output (response_format on chat and
completions, text.format on Responses, output_config.format on Anthropic
Messages) reaches the engine as guided-decoding params. A server started
without a guided decoding backend builds no grammar for them, so the
request is served unconstrained and nothing tells the operator.
The chat (also serving Anthropic Messages, and the Harmony chat path),
completions and Responses routes now log a warning, once per process and
route, when their sampling params carry guided-decoding params and the
server has no guided decoding backend. The warning names the request
field and how to enable a backend. Requests are served as before, and
the 400 for a named tool_choice without a backend is unchanged.
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The server now warns once per route when a request specifies a structured-output format but no guided-decoding backend is configured. CPU tests cover warning behavior and format propagation across supported API routes.
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Output-format warning behavior
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Warning helper and route integration tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py
Route descriptions identify structured-output fields. Chat Completions, Completions, Harmony chat, and Responses API paths check for requested formats that cannot be enforced. The server warns once per route when no backend is configured.
CPU tests cover format propagation, warning content and deduplication, requests without a format, configured backends, rejected requests, and structural-tag cases. The test module is added to the CPU test list.
A narrow rejected-request path can hide the warning from the next valid formatted completion request; this is a low-impact, localized fix.
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- Line 2163: Move the _warn_if_output_format_unenforced call in the chat request
path until after the early validation checks, so requests rejected for combining
response_format with a named tool_choice do not log or consume the chat warning
key. Add a regression test that submits the rejected request before a valid
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The chat route warned before its named tool_choice and thinking-budget
rejections, and the Completions and Harmony chat routes before their
thinking_token_budget rejection, so a rejected request used up the
once-per-process warning. Each route now warns after those checks.
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Recommend a backend that supports structural tags.
1119-1119: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Recommend a backend that supports structural tags.
Harmony chat converts JSON schemas to structural tags, but llguidance does not support them. An operator who follows this warning can still fail to enforce the requested format. Recommend xgrammar for structural tags, or use it as the universal recommendation. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py at line 1119:
Update the warning containing “guided_decoding_backend: xgrammar” to recommend
xgrammar for structural tags; do not present llguidance as an equivalent option
for this use case.
The existing Responses test uses the non-Harmony path. Add a Harmony Responses request with text.format, register /v1/responses, and assert that the engine receives params.guided_decoding.json == SCHEMA. Also assert that the Responses warning is emitted once.
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Add a Harmony Responses test that registers `/v1/responses` and sends a request
with `text.format`; assert the engine receives `params.guided_decoding.json ==
SCHEMA` and that the Responses warning is emitted exactly once.
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gpt-oss serves a requested format through a structural tag, which
llguidance does not support, so offering it as an equal choice could
leave the format unenforced. The warning now names xgrammar only. A new
test covers the Responses route in Harmony mode: the schema reaches the
engine in the structural tag and the Responses warning is logged.
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Backend recommendation: the warning now names guided_decoding_backend: xgrammar only. gpt-oss serves a requested format through a structural tag, which llguidance does not support. The chat warning test checks the new wording and that llguidance is no longer mentioned.
Responses in Harmony mode: test_harmony_responses_format_is_served_and_warned_about sends a text.format request to /v1/responses with the server in Harmony mode. On this path the schema does not arrive as guided_decoding.json: as on Harmony chat, gpt-oss carries it in a structural tag on its final channel. So the test asserts json is None and that the structural tag holds the schema, and that the Responses warning is logged once. It fails when the Responses route's warning call is removed.
…ural tag
The test only looked for the property name in the tag. It now parses the
tag and compares the schema on the final channel with the requested one.
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Assert that the structural tag targets the final channel.
The current assertions verify the schema but not the tag boundary. A regression that moves the tag to the analysis or commentary channel can pass while retaining the same schema.
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Add an assertion for final_channel’s begin boundary in the test, verifying it
targets the assistant final channel before checking the JSON schema; keep the
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@coderabbitai Re the final-channel nitpick: taken in cad7b44. The test now also asserts that the tag begins with <|start|>assistant<|channel|>final<|message|> before comparing the schema.
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Minor · Validate internal disaggregation before consuming the output-format… · openai_server.py:3117-3120
tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py:3117-3120 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Validate internal disaggregation before consuming the output-format warning.
A CompletionRequest can contain both response_format and protected disaggregated_params. The current order consumes the once-per-route completions_output_format_unenforced warning before _validate_internal_disagg_request. If validation rejects the request, a later valid formatted request does not emit the warning.
Move the warning after internal-disaggregation validation.
Suggested fix
- self._warn_if_output_format_unenforced(sampling_params,- "completions")
# TODO: better way to enable metrics
if len(os.getenv("TRTLLM_KVCACHE_TIME_OUTPUT_PATH", "")) > 0:
sampling_params.return_perf_metrics = True
self._validate_internal_disagg_request(request, raw_request)
+ self._warn_if_output_format_unenforced(sampling_params,+ "completions")
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Move the _warn_if_output_format_unenforced call in the completions request flow
to after _validate_internal_disagg_request, so rejected requests do not consume
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- Around line 3117-3120: Move the _warn_if_output_format_unenforced call in the
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@JunyiXu-nv Thanks for the update. The reported prefix assertion checks that the structural tag opens on the final channel. Together with the schema comparison, it addresses the final-channel concern. I have not independently verified cad7b447a8 or run the test.
@coderabbitai About the outside-diff item on where the completions route warns: I'm not taking this one.
The warning is logged at most once per route, and it describes the server's configuration: there is no guided decoding backend, so no requested format is enforced. A request that _validate_internal_disagg_request rejects reaches that same server, so the line it logs is just as true. The operator gets the same information whichever request logs it first, and moving the call would only change which request triggers that one line.
The chat route moved its warning after its early checks for a different reason. Those checks reject a request precisely because it needs a guided decoding backend, such as a named tool_choice. For those requests, a warning that the format was "accepted but not enforced" would have been false.
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@JunyiXu-nv Understood. I withdraw the completions warning-placement suggestion.
The once-per-route warning reports the missing backend. Moving it after _validate_internal_disagg_request would only change which request triggers it. The chat checks serve a different purpose: they prevent an “accepted but not enforced” warning for requests rejected because they require guided decoding. No change is needed for this item.
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Repo: NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM PR: 14290
File: tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py:1743-1777
Timestamp: 2026-08-24T07:20:07.329Z
Learning: In `tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py`, a named OpenAI `tool_choice` is mandatory and must reject client guided decoding such as `response_format` with HTTP 400. This differs intentionally from the adjacent `strict: true` tools path, which treats structural-tag guided decoding as best effort and yields when client guided decoding is already present.
…nses format test
The test renders a Responses request with Harmony, which loads its vocabulary
on first use. Without the harmony_vocab fixture it tried to download it, which
fails on CI nodes without network access.
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Description
A request can ask the OpenAI-compatible server for structured output:
response_format(
json_schema,json_object, ...) on/v1/chat/completionsand/v1/completions,text.formaton/v1/responses, oroutput_config.formaton/v1/messages, which the Anthropic adapter turns into achat
response_format. The format becomesGuidedDecodingParamson the request's sampling params,sometimes wrapped by a serving extension: the Kimi-K3 and gpt-oss extensions put the schema in a
structural tag on the model's answer channel.
When
trtllm-servewas started without a guided decoding backend (guided_decoding_backendunset),the engine has no guided decoder and ignores those params. The request is served unconstrained, and
nothing tells the operator or the client. Main already rejects a named
tool_choicein this case,because the forced call's arguments would be unconstrained text, but it says nothing when a requested
output format goes unenforced.
This change warns and does not reject. Clients such as Claude Code send structured-output side
requests whatever the server's configuration. Today those requests get an answer, unconstrained.
Rejecting them would break these clients on every server without a backend. So behaviour stays the
same, and the server logs that the format is accepted but not enforced. It does this once per process
and route, the way it already reports other accepted-but-not-enforced settings
(
parallel_tool_calls=falseandtool_choicevalues other thanauto/noneon Responses).What the change does:
New
OpenAIServer._warn_if_output_format_unenforced(sampling_params, route). When the samplingparams carry guided-decoding params and
guided_decoding_backendis None, it callslogger.warning_once(..., key="<route>_output_format_unenforced"). Here is the chat route's message:Each generation route calls the helper right after it builds its sampling params. That is before
the chat route adds any tool-call grammar, so only a requested format triggers the warning. Tools
with
strict: trueand forced or required tool calls do not./v1/chat/completions(openai_chat). This route also serves/v1/messagesand Message Batches,so an Anthropic request logs the chat route's warning, which names both fields.
chat_harmony. It uses the samechatkey; the two chathandlers are never registered together.
/v1/completions./v1/responses, on both the Harmony and the chat-template paths.Disaggregated serving: the proxy (
openai_disagg_server.py) builds no sampling params. It convertsAnthropic requests and forwards chat, completions and Responses requests to the workers, which run
the routes above. So the warning appears in the log of each worker process that has no backend, and
the proxy needs no change.
No behaviour or API change: response bodies, status codes and what reaches the engine stay the same.
The named-
tool_choice400 is unchanged, and a server with a backend logs nothing new. The only newoutput is one WARNING line per route per process.
Not covered here: tools with
strict: trueare not enforced without a backend either. That stayssilent, because this warning is only about a requested output format.
Test Coverage
New file
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_openai_unenforced_output_format.py(CPU,cpu_only, addedto
l0_cpu.yml). It is built onmake_stub_openai_server: the real constructor, plus a stub enginethat records the sampling params it receives. Prompt rendering and each route's post-processing are
stubbed, and requests go through a FastAPI
TestClient. The tests capture the TensorRT-LLM logger andstart each test with an empty
warning_oncekey set, so "once" is the logger's real deduplication.test_chat_format_is_served_and_warned_about_once: sends two chat requests with aresponse_formatjson_schema. Both return 200, the schema reaches the engine both times, and exactly one warning is
logged. The warning names
response_format, says it is accepted but not enforced for lack of aguided decoding backend, and shows how to enable xgrammar or llguidance.
test_format_on_other_routes_is_served_and_warned_about(3 cases): completionsresponse_format,Responses
text.format, and Anthropic/v1/messagesoutput_config.format. Each returns 200, theschema reaches the engine, and one warning is logged. The Messages request logs the chat route's
warning.
test_constraint_an_extension_derives_from_the_format_is_warned_about: with the kimi_k3 reasoningparser, the schema reaches the engine wrapped in a structural tag, and the warning is still logged.
test_each_route_warns_once: sends chat, messages, completions and Responses requests twice each.Three warnings are logged, one per route; Messages shares the chat route's warning.
test_request_without_a_format_logs_nothing(4 routes): without a format, no guided decodingparams are built and no warning is logged.
test_server_with_a_backend_logs_nothing(4 routes xxgrammar/llguidance): the format reachesthe engine and no warning is logged.
test_harmony_chat_format_is_served_and_warned_about: on the gpt-oss chat path, the requestreturns 200, a structural tag reaches the engine, and the chat warning is logged.
Results (run locally on CPU without the compiled bindings):
requests themselves are served the same way. The 12 that also pass on main are the guards that
must hold before and after: no warning without a format, and none with a backend.
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_*.pyfiles, plus 8 disaggregated and executor test files that driveOpenAIServerroutes. Main had 2084 passed, 89 failed and 201 errors; this branch had 2091 passed,82 failed and 201 errors. The difference is exactly the 7 new tests, and nothing that passes on main
fails here. The shared failures come from the local environment (no model files, no compiled
bindings, multimodal providers not loaded) and are the same on both sides.
Responses, 1 for Harmony chat.
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Dev Engineer Review
The server warns once per route when a request contains guided-decoding constraints and no backend is configured. The warning says the format is accepted but not enforced and recommends
guided_decoding_backend: xgrammar. The call sites cover Chat Completions, Completions, Responses, and Harmony chat; Anthropic Messages uses the chat route. The warning does not reject the request. The existing named-tooltool_choicerejection remains in place. Strict-tool constraints without a backend are outside this warning.No current review findings or severity counts were supplied.
QA Engineer Review
The new CPU-only test file covers warning wording and per-route deduplication; format handling across supported routes; requests without formats; configured backends; rejected requests; and Harmony structural-tag behavior. Its Harmony Responses test checks that the schema is in the final-channel tag. The CPU CI list includes the test file. No manual-QA list entry is shown. Coverage verdict: sufficient for the described warning behavior.
The author reports that all 19 new tests pass locally. The author also reports 2,091 passes, 82 failures, and 201 errors on this branch, compared with 2,084 passes, 89 failures, and 201 errors on
main. These results were not independently verified. No completed CI result was supplied.Per-File QA Perspective
tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py: Verify that the warning occurs only when a request has guided-decoding constraints and the server has no backend. Confirm requests remain served and named-tool rejection behavior is unchanged.tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_openai_unenforced_output_format.py: Tests route warnings, deduplication, backend and no-format cases, rejected requests, and Harmony tag behavior. Listed intests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.ymlfor CPU CI; no manual-QA entry is shown.tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml: Adds the new test file to the CPU CI list. No manual-QA list change is shown.