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Symptom. With --tool_parser deepseek_v3 or deepseek_v31, a streamed /v1/chat/completions response loses a tool call's arguments when the call's name is first read in the last increment of the stream: the whole call arrives in the final increment, or the part of it in which its name completes (for DeepSeek V3, the part that closes its json code block). The client receives the call's name with empty arguments and finish_reason: "tool_calls", so it runs the tool with no arguments. When that increment carries two calls, the client gets only one: DeepSeek V3 sends the second call's name at index 0, DeepSeek V3.1 a name that holds the markup of both calls. Large increments are common: with stream_interval above 1 (many configs under examples/configs use 10 or 20), the last increment carries everything generated since the previous one, and speculative decoding adds accepted draft tokens on top. Streaming /v1/messages, which is reframed from the chat chunks, emits a tool_use block with empty input. Non-streaming responses are correct, and so is streaming /v1/responses, which takes these parsers' calls from a whole-text parse at the end of the stream.

Cause. Both parsers have their own parse_streaming_increment. It sends a call's name in the increment that first reads it and the arguments in a later increment, and it completes at most one call per increment, returning right after it. finish() is a no-op for these parsers, so arguments left for a later increment are lost when the stream ends first, and so is any later call in the same increment. The patterns that read a call are greedy and run over the whole buffer, so with two calls buffered they read into the last call instead of the first: the first call can then be sent with the second call's arguments, and the second call is never sent. DeepSeek V3.1 also reads the arguments up to the end of the buffer, so an increment that ends inside <|tool▁call▁end|> streams the start of the marker as arguments, then the arguments again once the marker is complete.

Change (the same in both parsers, which share this code):

  • A call whose arguments are already complete when its name is read goes out as one ToolCallItem that carries the name and the arguments.
  • An increment that completes a call keeps parsing what is left in the buffer (parse_streaming_increment now runs _parse_buffered_tool_call until a pass completes no call), so every complete call is released by the increment that completes it, and so is the text after it.
  • Each pass parses only the first call in the buffer, up to its <|tool▁call▁end|> (as detect_and_parse delimits calls), so the greedy patterns cannot read into a later call.
  • DeepSeek V3.1: complete arguments followed by the first characters of <|tool▁call▁end|> at the end of the buffer no longer include those characters, and the call stays open until the marker has arrived.
  • A call is closed in the pass that names it only together with its end marker; otherwise a later increment closes it, as it does a call named earlier. This keeps the marker from being streamed as text when it arrives together with the next call.

Calls that are still being generated stream as before: the name once it is complete, then (DeepSeek V3.1) the argument text as it arrives.

Behaviour. When an increment holds a whole call, these parsers now return a single item with the name and the arguments, where before they returned the name only and the arguments one increment later (or never). DeepSeek V3 reads a call once its json code block is closed, so for that parser the name and the arguments of every call now go out in one item. An increment holding several complete calls returns all of them, one item each, so a chat chunk carries each call index at most once. Names go out in the same increment as before; arguments and text go out in the same increment or earlier. Text after a call in the same increment is now streamed, where it used to wait for the next increment, or was lost when there was none. For DeepSeek V3 this includes the newline its chat template puts between two calls: it was already streamed as content when the calls arrive in separate increments, and now also when they arrive in one. There is no API or configuration change; streaming_matches_whole_parse stays False for these parsers, so /v1/responses keeps its whole-text parse.

The same defect in the base JSON streaming path (BaseToolParser.parse_streaming_increment, used by the Qwen3 parser) is fixed in #21490. The two changes touch different code and merge without conflicts.

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In tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_tool_parsers.py (CPU only, already in l0_cpu.yml), next to the existing DeepSeek V3/V3.1 tests:

  • TestDeepSeekV3StreamingMatchesWholeTextParse::test_streamed_calls_match_whole_text_parse[{deepseek_v3,deepseek_v31}-{one_call,two_calls,text_around_calls}] (6): the streamed calls, assembled by index as a client does (with finish() at the end), equal detect_and_parse on the whole text (indices, names, decoded arguments). This is checked for every chunking: the whole output in one increment, one character per increment, sizes 2/3/5/8/13, and every two-way split. No increment may repeat a tool index.
  • TestDeepSeekV3StreamingMatchesWholeTextParse::test_last_increment_sends_the_arguments_with_the_name[...-{whole_call_in_last_increment,last_increment_has_the_rest}] (4): a call first named by the last increment arrives in that increment as one item with its arguments, and finish() has nothing left.
  • TestDeepSeekV3StreamingMatchesWholeTextParse::test_two_calls_in_last_increment_are_both_sent[...] (2): both calls of one increment are released, one item each.
  • TestDeepSeekV3StreamingMatchesWholeTextParse::test_chat_stream_carries_the_arguments_to_the_end[...-{whole_output_in_one_step,calls_in_last_step,last_step_has_the_rest,last_step_from_the_first_end_marker}] (8): through chat_stream_post_processor, the SSE tool_calls assembled by index equal the whole-text parse, no chunk repeats an index, the last chunk has finish_reason: "tool_calls", and the streamed content holds the text before and after the calls and no markup.
  • TestDeepSeekV31Parser::test_parse_streaming_increment_end_marker_split_across_increments: an end marker split across increments is streamed neither as arguments nor as text.
  • TestDeepSeekV31Parser::test_parse_streaming_increment_streams_arguments_as_they_arrive: a call still being generated sends its name alone, then its argument text as it arrives (a final < included). This pins behaviour that does not change, so it passes on main too.

Results: 21 of the 22 new tests fail on main and all 22 pass with this change; the 22nd pins behaviour this change keeps. On main, 135 of 176, 289 of 295 and 314 of 320 chunkings (DeepSeek V3) and 65 of 155, 251 of 252 and 276 of 277 chunkings (DeepSeek V3.1) end with other calls than the whole-text parse. Reverting the fix (no arguments with the name, one pass per increment) makes all 10 tests of the reverted parser fail. Of 24 bugs planted one at a time in the changed code of both parsers, all 24 are caught. Over tests/unittest/llmapi/apps, the only outcome changes from main are these 21 tests going from failed to passed. That includes the Responses streaming suite, which covers these two parsers on its whole-text path, and the Anthropic adapter suites. Locally, a differential run over a few thousand chunkings of seven outputs per parser (one to three calls, nested and non-ASCII arguments, text around the calls; whole output, per character, fixed sizes, every two-way split, sampled three-way splits, and detokenizer-like increments that keep the special tokens whole) found the streamed calls equal to the whole-text parse in every case. Where the increments keep the special tokens whole and main already streamed the right calls, names went out in the same increment as on main, and arguments and text in the same increment or earlier.

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The DeepSeek V3 and V3.1 parsers now process buffered calls in repeated passes. They can emit complete arguments with the tool name, retain partial markers, and wait for the full end marker before finalizing each call. No public API or configuration change is reported. Current review findings and independently verified test results are unavailable.

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tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_tool_parsers.py adds streaming and whole-text parity tests for both parsers. Coverage includes split markers, calls recognized in the final increment, multiple calls in one increment, and chat-stream assembly. The test file is listed in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml; no manual-QA list entry was found. The PR description reports that 21 of 22 new tests fail on main and all 22 pass with this change; these results are not independently verified. Coverage verdict: sufficient.

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  • tensorrt_llm/serve/tool_parser/deepseekv31_parser.py: Verify that partial end markers remain buffered and that later calls in the same increment are parsed after each completed call.
  • tensorrt_llm/serve/tool_parser/deepseekv3_parser.py: Verify that multiple calls preserve order and that complete arguments are emitted with each tool name.
  • tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_tool_parsers.py: Covers streaming, chunk-boundary parity, multiple calls, split markers, and chat-stream assembly. It is listed in the CI test list at tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml; no manual-QA list entry was found.

… a call that ends the stream

The DeepSeek V3 and V3.1 tool parsers have their own streaming code. It
sent a call's name in the increment that first read it and the
arguments in a later one, and completed at most one call per
increment. finish() is a no-op for these parsers, so when that later
increment never came, because the call arrived in the last increment
of the stream, the arguments were lost, and so was any later call in
the same increment. With two calls buffered, the greedy patterns also
read the last call instead of the first, and V3.1 streamed the start
of an end marker split across increments as arguments. A streaming
client then ran the tool with empty or wrong arguments, or never saw
the second call.

A call whose arguments are complete when its name is read now goes out
as one item carrying them. Each pass parses only the first call in the
buffer, and an increment that completes a call keeps parsing what is
left, so every complete call is released by the increment that
completes it. Calls still being generated stream as before.

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DeepSeek V3 and V3.1 streaming parsers now process multiple buffered calls and retain incomplete marker fragments. They emit complete arguments with tool names and finalize calls only after the full end marker arrives. Tests cover varied chunk boundaries and chat-stream assembly.

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DeepSeek streaming parsing

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Buffered tool-call parsing
tensorrt_llm/serve/tool_parser/deepseekv3_parser.py, tensorrt_llm/serve/tool_parser/deepseekv31_parser.py
Both parsers repeatedly process buffered content, preserve partial markers, and emit complete arguments with tool names. They finalize calls only when the full end marker is present.
Streaming parity and integration tests
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_tool_parsers.py
Tests compare whole-text parsing with streamed calls across chunk boundaries. They cover split markers, final-increment calls, multiple calls, and chat-stream assembly.

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Change: Bug fix

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  • Issue 21004 reports empty arguments when a tool call completes in the final streaming increment. This PR changes both parsers to emit complete arguments with the tool name.

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V3 streaming can drop a tool call containing a literal end marker in its arguments. This is a bounded edge-case risk.

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…ole end marker

A DeepSeek V3 call, and a V3.1 call whose arguments ended exactly at an
increment boundary, closed as soon as its arguments were complete. When the end
marker then arrived split across increments, its first part was dropped with
the call and the rest was streamed as text. A call now closes only with its
whole end marker, and text that may still become an end marker waits for the
next increment, as text that may become a start marker already did. The
streaming tests now check the streamed text exactly for every split, not only
the calls.

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…l marker at once

When an increment ended with text followed by the start of a marker, the
DeepSeek V3 and V3.1 parsers held the text back together with the marker
fragment, so a stream that stopped there never delivered the text. Only the
possible marker fragment now waits for the next increment; the text before it
is sent at once, with complete end markers removed, for start and end markers
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Outside diff Strip end markers before emitting text ahead of another call.

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Strip end markers before emitting text ahead of another call.

If one increment contains two tool-call sections, the repeated buffer pass leaves the first section’s <|tool▁calls▁end|> before the second section’s start marker. Line 145 emits that marker as normal_text. The no-start branch removes complete end markers, but this branch does not. Strip complete end markers from this prefix in both DeepSeekV3Parser and DeepSeekV31Parser. Add a two-section case to tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_tool_parsers.py that asserts the emitted text contains no marker. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Update prefix handling in DeepSeekV3Parser and DeepSeekV31Parser to remove
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…econd tool-call section

When one increment held two tool-call sections, the second pass over the buffer
streamed the first section's end marker as text, because the text before a
start marker kept its end markers. That text now has complete end markers
removed, as text without a start marker already did, in both the DeepSeek V3
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@coderabbitai Confirmed, fixed in b915308. With two complete tool-call sections in one increment, the second pass over the buffer streamed the first section's <|tool▁calls▁end|> as content in both parsers. So did most splits that put that end marker and the next start marker in the same buffer; the calls themselves were right. DeepSeekV3Parser and DeepSeekV31Parser now remove complete end markers from the text before a start marker, as the no-start branch does. The streaming/whole-text parity test has a new output with text around two sections, checked at every chunking, including the whole output in one increment.

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@JunyiXu-nv Thanks for the detailed confirmation. Removing complete end markers from the text before a start marker addresses the reported leak in both parsers. The added two-section parity case covers the relevant chunk boundaries, including the entire output in one increment.

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Repo: NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM PR: 17739
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Learning: In `tensorrt_llm/serve/tool_parser/base_tool_parser.py`, streaming normal text before tool-call markup must be preserved verbatim so output is independent of streaming increment boundaries. Parser-specific `detect_and_parse()` whitespace trimming is existing one-shot behavior and must not cause streaming trimming; changing one-shot whitespace behavior is a separate compatibility concern.
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Repo: NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM PR: 17903
File: tensorrt_llm/serve/tool_parser/deepseekv3_parser.py:116-123
Timestamp: 2026-08-18T15:02:53.067Z
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Closing in favour of #21975, which fixes the same loss once, in BaseToolParser.finish(), for every parser that keeps the default finish(), this one included. The other part of this PR, reading the wrong call when two calls arrive in one increment, is not in #21975: it was not seen in recorded traffic.

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