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fix(translation): report tool_use when a streamed Responses turn ends in a function call - #697

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What

The Responses stream decoder reported every response.completed as a plain completion (MessageStop { reason: None }). A streamed function_call therefore reached Anthropic clients as stop_reason: "end_turn" and Chat clients as finish_reason: "stop", while the buffered decoder correctly reported tool use for the same output.

The decoder now reports tool_use when the completed response's output holds a function_call or custom_tool_call item, or when it already decoded tool deltas earlier in the stream (for providers that end with a bare response.completed). Text and reasoning streams still report no reason, so their end_turn / stop mapping is unchanged.

Why

Fixes SWITCH-1438 (NvBug 6771918). Stop-reason-driven tool loops, including the official @anthropic-ai/sdk TypeScript tool runner with stream: true, treat end_turn as final. They return the unfinished tool-use turn without running the tool and without any API error. QA's A/B probe shows the same runner completes the loop in buffered mode.

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Start with the response.completed arm in crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/stream.rs. The new decoded_tool_call flag on StreamTranslationState is set in the three places that decode tool items. The three new tests in tests/stream_translation.rs use QA's fixture and fail on the unpatched decoder: Anthropic tool_use, Chat tool_calls, and the bare-completed fallback. The reason carries the Anthropic spelling, as the response.incomplete arm already does with max_tokens.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Corrected streaming Responses tool-call handling so function and custom tool calls now report the appropriate tool-use completion reason instead of appearing as ordinary completions.
    • Preserved text-only stream behavior, which continues to complete without a tool-use reason.
    • Improved stop-reason translation for streamed tool calls across Anthropic and OpenAI Chat formats.

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Walkthrough

The Responses stream decoder now tracks observed function and custom tool calls. Completed responses emit tool_use when tool calls are present or previously decoded. Tests cover Anthropic, OpenAI Chat, tool-call deltas, and text-only streams.

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Responses tool-call stop reasons

Layer / File(s) Summary
Tool-call observation state
crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/stream.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/stream.rs
StreamTranslationState records observed tool calls. Responses decoding updates this state for argument deltas and function or custom tool output-item events.
Completion stop-reason classification
crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/stream.rs
response.completed emits tool_use when its output contains a tool call or the decoder observed a tool call. Text-only completions keep no stop reason.
Translation coverage and changelog
crates/switchyard-translation/tests/stream_translation.rs, CHANGELOG.md
Tests verify Anthropic tool_use, OpenAI Chat tool_calls, tool-call deltas, and text-only streams. The changelog documents the fix.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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Docstring coverage is 40.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 3 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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In `@crates/switchyard-translation/tests/stream_translation.rs`:
- Line 1412: Update the test case around the take(5) sequence to exercise the
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… in a function call

Signed-off-by: Lin Jia <linj@nvidia.com>
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