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Under a code dialect (python / typescript), deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via OpenRouter wraps every call in the tag twice:

<tool_call>
<tool_call>
web_search_tool(query="Kashmir tour packages 5 days October 2026")
</tool_call>
</tool_call>

Seen in 4 of 6 live turns from OpenHuman's orchestrator. The tagged grammar pairs markers positionally (first marker opens, next closes), so the first <tool_call> closed on an empty body, the call was never recovered, and the whole block — tags included — was shown to the user as the reply.

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In parse/grammar/tagged.rs, an opener whose body up to the next marker is whitespace-only is a doubled opener: the scan continues from the second marker as the same block. After a block closes, closers that immediately follow (the doubled </tool_call>) are swallowed so nothing leaks into the visible text; a block followed by prose keeps its exact end (the stream tests pin the whitespace).

The is_closing_marker helper replaces the inline slash check in next_opener.

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  • a_doubled_opener_is_one_block_and_its_extra_closer_is_swallowed (code body, narrative clean)
  • a_doubled_opener_around_a_json_body_parses_too
  • two_adjacent_blocks_are_still_two_blocks (the rule needs a whitespace-only gap)
  • cargo test -p tinytools-agent: 300 passed; clippy -D warnings clean

Co-authored-by: Medulla medulla@tinyhumans.ai

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved tagged content parsing when duplicate opening tags are separated only by whitespace.
    • Prevented redundant protocol tags from appearing in visible text, including when streamed across fragments.
    • Preserved the correct body, name, arguments, and source details.
    • Correctly handles both JSON and code-style tagged blocks while continuing to recognize genuinely adjacent blocks separately.
    • Keeps incomplete tagged content pending when additional closing markers may still arrive.
    • Removes empty, unclosed tag blocks from batch output while preserving unparseable content.

Second commit: a bare trailing opener (…\n\n<tool_call>\n at the end of a reply, the model abandoned the block) is dropped as a malformed block instead of being kept verbatim, so a lone <tool_call> never reaches the user. A block with real but unparseable content is still kept as text (a_bare_trailing_opener_is_dropped_not_shown).

DeepSeek V4 under a code dialect wraps the call twice:
<tool_call>\n<tool_call>\nNAME(...)\n</tool_call>\n</tool_call>. Positional
pairing closed the first tag on the empty body, dropped the call, and let the
whole block leak into the visible reply. An opener followed by nothing but
whitespace now continues the same block, and the extra closer is swallowed.

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The change updates tagged parsing for repeated openers and streaming closers. It adds parser and stream tests. It also adds JEV family-ranking tests for validation, abstention, candidate limits, retrieval, summaries, and asynchronous evaluation.

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Tagged parser handling

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Repeated opener handling
crates/tinytools-agent/src/parse/grammar/tagged.rs, crates/tinytools-agent/src/parse/test/tagged.rs, crates/tinytools-agent/src/stream/test.rs
The parser groups whitespace-separated repeated openers, consumes recognized extra closers, preserves unrelated markup, returns Pending when a streaming closer may arrive, and handles empty unclosed batch blocks. Tests cover code, JSON, pipe-form tags, adjacent blocks, narrative text, and split stream fragments.

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crates/tinytools-jev/src/test.rs
Tests cover reserved and excessive family counts, abstention, no-tool decisions, missing members, oversized-family retrieval, fallback ordering, summary truncation, and futures that are pending on their first poll.

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Malformed doubled tool-call responses can lose unrelated markup or display partial protocol text while streaming. Ranking selection coverage should also verify the selected tools rather than only their count.

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- Around line 159-160: Update the repeated-opener end calculation around TAG_RE
and is_closing_marker to consume a leading run of pipe-form tag-family closers
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senamakel and others added 3 commits September 22, 2026 12:23
crates/tinytools-jev/src/family.rs was at 84.91% line coverage, failing CI's
per-file coverage gate (inherited unchanged from main via PR #19). Add tests
for the abstain path, the too-many-families and reserved-none-family errors,
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The doubled-`<tool_call>`-opener cleanup used `strip_leading_close_tags`,
which eats *any* leading `</...>` marker. That over-consumed unrelated
narrative markup right after a normal call (e.g. `</tool_call>\n</div>visible`
lost `</div>`) and, because it only understands `</...>` syntax, missed the
pipe-form duplicate closer `<|/tool_call|>` DeepSeek's dialect can emit.

Track how many extra openers the doubled-block scan skipped and swallow
exactly that many tag-family closers (matched by the same TAG_RE/
is_closing_marker grammar as every opener), never an unrelated closing tag.
In streaming mode, if the buffered text runs out before that count of
closers is confirmed one way or the other, report the block as still
pending instead of finalizing early — otherwise a fragment boundary that
lands between the doubled block's two closers could let the second one
leak into the visible stream as plain text.

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🟡 Minor · Preserve unrelated markup during JSON recovery. · tagged.rs:228-229

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve unrelated markup during JSON recovery.

In batch mode, the second opener is skipped and the JSON body parses as one echo call. The recovery path then passes the remaining </div>visible to strip_leading_close_tags, which removes the unrelated </div>.

End the recovered block at the JSON boundary.

Proposed fix
-                let rest = &after[consumed..];
-                let stripped = strip_leading_close_tags(rest);
-                let end = text.len() - stripped.len();
+                let end = body_start + consumed;
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In `@crates/tinytools-agent/src/parse/grammar/tagged.rs` around lines 228 - 229,
Update the JSON recovery path in the surrounding tagged parsing logic to set the
recovered block end directly to body_start plus consumed, rather than passing
the remaining text through strip_leading_close_tags. Preserve trailing unrelated
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Assert member keys in both family retrieval tests.

The current count-only assertions can pass with the wrong capped members or with the correct fallback count in the wrong order. Use deterministic retrievers and assert the exact option-key sequence sent to the evaluator. For the empty-retrieval case, assert tool_0 through tool_{MAX_CANDIDATES - 1}, followed by none.

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In `@crates/tinytools-jev/src/test.rs` around lines 598 - 599, Update both family
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option-key sequence passed to the evaluator, asserting the exact expected
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In `@crates/tinytools-agent/src/parse/grammar/tagged.rs`:
- Around line 275-276: Update swallow_extra_closers so stream mode returns None
when trimmed is a non-empty prefix that could become a tag-family closing tag,
instead of returning Some(consumed) when TAG_RE.find fails; preserve existing
handling for complete or unrelated text. Add a test covering an extra
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- Around line 228-229: Update the JSON recovery path in the surrounding tagged
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strip_leading_close_tags. Preserve trailing unrelated markup after the JSON
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…loser detection

Two follow-up gaps in bbccbc6's extra-closer swallow, both flagged against
the pushed head:

- `swallow_extra_closers` only checked `rest` for emptiness before
  deciding to hold in stream mode. A fragment boundary landing *inside* the
  extra closer itself (`</tool_` in one fragment, `call>` in the next) fell
  through TAG_RE's `find` returning no match, so the block finalized early
  and the partial marker leaked as narrative text, with its tail following
  as more narrative once the rest arrived. Hold instead when the remaining
  text is a non-empty case-insensitive prefix of a canonical closer
  spelling and contains no `>` yet — the same practical, non-exhaustive
  literal-prefix trade-off `pending_opener` already makes for openers.

- `is_closing_marker` only trimmed space and tab before checking for the
  leading `/`, but `TAG_RE`'s `\s` matches any whitespace. A closer with a
  leaked newline or other whitespace, such as `<\n/tool_call>`, matched the
  regex as one marker but was not recognized as a *closing* one, so the
  doubled-block swallow left it behind for the narrative to leak.

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…'s recovered JSON

The batch fallback for an opener with no tag-family marker anywhere after it
(so no closer at all was found) still ran strip_leading_close_tags on
whatever followed the recovered JSON body, removing any leading </x> tag —
same over-broad-stripping bug as the doubled-opener path already fixed,
just in a sibling branch flagged separately on this push. Since no
tag-family marker exists in the remaining text by construction of this
branch, there is nothing here to clean up: end the block at the JSON
boundary and leave trailing markup, tool-call-related or not, in the
narrative.

strip_leading_close_tags has no remaining caller once this path stops using
it, so it is removed along with its now-pointless direct unit test.

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// furniture to clean up — stopping at the JSON boundary
// leaves any trailing markup, tool-call-related or not, in
// the narrative rather than guessing which closer it was.
let end = body_start + consumed;

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P2 Badge Strip truncated tag-family closers after recovered JSON

When an otherwise valid unclosed call ends partway through its closer, such as <tool_call>{"name":"x","arguments":{}}</tool_, TAG_RE finds no complete marker and this recovery path stops at the JSON boundary. The subsequent scan therefore returns </tool_ as visible narrative. This regresses the previous truncated-close cleanup precisely for interrupted model responses; distinguish a partial tag-family closer from unrelated markup such as </div> and consume only the former.

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/// match of in stream mode. Not exhaustive of everything `TAG_RE` accepts
/// (arbitrary interleaved pipes and whitespace) — the same practical
/// trade-off [`pending_opener`]'s literal list already makes for openers.
const CLOSER_PREFIXES: &[&str] = &["</tool_call", "</toolcall", "</tool-call", "<|/tool_call"];

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P2 Badge Hold whitespace-form closer prefixes across fragments

When a doubled call's outer closer uses a spelling accepted by TAG_RE and a fragment ends at <\n/tool_, this canonical-only list makes could_still_become_a_closer return false, so the block is finalized and StreamScrubber emits the prefix before call> arrives. Unlike the earlier canonical </tool_ case, the fresh evidence is the whitespace-inside-marker spelling that the newly added newline test establishes as supported; partial-closer detection should normalize the same whitespace and pipe forms as the complete-marker grammar.

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// and never wrote (a truncated or abandoned block). There is nothing
// to recover and nothing worth showing, so it is dropped rather than
// left in the visible text as a bare `<tool_call>`.
if opener.kind == OpenerKind::Tag && after.trim().is_empty() {

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P2 Badge Align flush docs with dropped empty openers

When feed("<tool_call>") holds the pending opener and the stream then ends, flush() invokes batch scanning and this new branch drops the opener while emitting a malformed-block diagnostic. The public StreamScrubber::flush rustdoc still promises that a dangling opener is released verbatim, so callers now receive behavior contrary to the documented API; update the documentation to describe the empty-opener exception or retain the documented behavior.

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