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Tool calls appearing in content field, not tool_calls

Cluster 5867 · agent. Data as of

2 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

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1open issue
1open PR
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Known?
Yes. 4 related items grouped here, 0 issues already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. 2 PRs closed without merging; see the attempts below.
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Still open
1 issue and 1 PR.

A bug where certain models (Ollama, Kimi, MiniMax, Gemma, Harmony) emit tool calls inside the message content field instead of the standard tool_calls field, along with fixes to detect and promote them correctly.

Open issues1

  • Issue#5867[Bug]: Ollama qwen2.5-coder tool calls in content field, not tool_calls — Hermes doesn't execute them

Open PRs1

  • PR#87900fix: recover tool calls leaked into content by Ollama's /v1 endpoint

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: won't fix / by design 1 · other 1

  • #26353 fix(ollama): promote JSON content tool calls · other → #6111, #5867
  • #35129 feat(transports): execute tool calls models emit in `content` (Ollama/Kimi/MiniMax/Gemma) · won't fix / by design → #29115, #5867, #12090, #24534, #27834
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  • Pairwise link density 0.50: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. 1.00 means every pair is linked.

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