feat(harness): add tool-call parsing as harness::tool_calling

[senamakel]

Third Phase 5 family from OpenHuman's plan-agents.md, ported from agent/harness/parse.rs and agent/pformat.rs. Follows #101 (harness::artifacts).

A model with native tool use hands back structured calls and none of this is needed. Everything else — prompt-guided models, local models, providers whose native mode is unavailable or disabled — emits tool calls as text, in whatever shape it was trained to produce. This turns that text back into calls.

The crate had no tool-call parsing at all, so this is new surface rather than a second implementation of something existing. (harness::tool is schemas/timeouts/error policy; nothing parses model output.)

Ported, not rewritten

Every accommodation in here exists because a model actually produced that shape and the alternative was dropping a well-formed call and burning an agent iteration. The behaviour is carried over verbatim and its tests came with it, because a "cleaner" reimplementation would silently lose the cases that motivated it.

Handled: <tool_call> tags in several spellings (including pipe-garbled ones), ```tool_call fenced blocks, bare JSON objects, Anthropic-style <invoke name="…"><parameter name="…"> XML, and the compact positional p-format.

The permissiveness is bounded — this is the part to preserve

Rule	Why
Argument keys are aliased (arguments/args/parameters/params/input); tool names are not	Loosening the name risks reading a plain JSON answer as a tool call in the whole-response path — an ordinary reply becomes a phantom invocation
The very generic input alias is honoured only behind an explicit marker (a tool_calls array, a <tool_call> tag, a fenced block)	Untagged prose containing input should not become a call
p-format refuses to invent argument names for an unknown tool	Otherwise a model tunnels arbitrary JSON through by guessing a tool name that does not exist

What did not come across

• build_registry / render_signature_from_tool took &[Box<dyn Tool>]. A host's tool type is its own vocabulary, and depending on it here would defeat the point of the module. build_registry now takes (name, schema) pairs and render_signature_from_schema replaces the tool-typed variant; hosts keep a one-line adapter over their own tool slice.
• Four #[cfg(test)] host-typed helpers — parse_structured_tool_calls, build_native_assistant_history, build_assistant_history_with_tool_calls, tools_to_openai_format. These work in OpenHuman's own ToolCall and provider wire formats, never compiled in production, and stay behind with their tests.
• Dispatch and execution. This module answers "what did the model ask for", never "what happens next" — OpenHuman's dispatchers work in its own ChatMessage/ChatResponse types and remain host-side.

Dependency

regex becomes a direct dependency. It is already resolved in OpenHuman's kernel profile (v1.12.3 via existing edges), so this adds no package to that floor — checked before adding it rather than after.

Verification

• cargo test --all-features --lib — 1804 passed, 0 failed (36 parse + 17 p-format ported)
• cargo clippy --all-features --all-targets — clean
• cargo fmt --check — clean

Four lints surfaced that OpenHuman's config did not flag: three collapsible_if (fixed with let-chains) and one approx_constant on a 3.14 float used as sample data in a coercion test — renamed to 2.75, since the test is about float coercion and never meant π.

Follow-up

The host-side change — parse.rs/pformat.rs becoming thin re-exports plus the Tool-slice adapter and the four test helpers — follows in openhuman once this merges.

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• New Features
  • Added robust tool-call parsing across JSON, XML, Markdown, Claude, GLM, and other common response formats.
  • Added recovery for malformed or partially corrupted tool-call markup.
  • Added support for parallel tool calls, provider identifiers, argument aliases, and URL-to-command conversion.
  • Added positional tool-call formatting with schema-based parameter validation and type conversion.
  • Added safeguards for unknown tools, invalid syntax, and ambiguous tool-call markers.

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Adds a public tool-calling harness with P-Format support. The parser recovers tool calls from JSON, XML, Claude, GLM, Markdown, sentinel, and malformed text formats. Tests cover normalization, coercion, escaping, recovery, and multi-call behavior.

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Tool-call parsing harness

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Public module surface Cargo.toml, src/harness/mod.rs, src/harness/tool_calling/mod.rs	Adds the regex dependency and exposes parser and P-Format APIs through the harness module.
P-Format registry and parsing src/harness/tool_calling/pformat.rs	Adds schema-derived parameter registries, signature rendering, escaped positional parsing, primitive coercion, validation, and focused tests.
Response parsing and recovery src/harness/tool_calling/parse.rs, src/harness/tool_calling/parse_test.rs	Adds normalized tool-call parsing across multiple response formats, malformed-input recovery, explicit-marker rules, P-Format integration, and regression coverage.

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Mergeability Score: 🟠 High · up to 45557

The new parser can turn ordinary model text containing a URL into a shell request, potentially causing unintended network access or command execution when adopted by a host. Additional parsing defects can drop tool calls or change boolean and null arguments into strings, and the current code does not pass the stated clippy check; these issues should be fixed before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ResponseText
  participant parse_tool_calls_with_pformat
  participant PFormatRegistry
  participant ParsedToolCall
  ResponseText->>parse_tool_calls_with_pformat: response text and registry
  parse_tool_calls_with_pformat->>PFormatRegistry: parse positional tool-call body
  PFormatRegistry-->>parse_tool_calls_with_pformat: tool name and arguments
  parse_tool_calls_with_pformat->>ParsedToolCall: normalize parsed call
  ParsedToolCall-->>ResponseText: narrative text and parsed calls

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A rabbit parses calls with care,
Through pipes and tags and JSON air.
Escaped values hop in line,
Typed arguments turn out fine.
The harness thumps: “All tools align!”

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Actionable comments posted: 6

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src/harness/tool_calling/mod.rs (1)

41-48: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider narrowing the submodule visibility.

Lines 41-42 export parse and pformat as pub mod. Lines 44-48 then curate a re-export set. The result is two public surfaces: the curated names and every pub item inside the submodules. parse.rs marks many internal helpers pub (find_first_tag, matching_tool_call_close_tag, extract_json_values, find_json_end, build_curl_command, parse_glm_style_tool_calls, parse_tool_calls_from_json_value_aliased). Each becomes part of the crate's stable API.

If the curated re-exports are the intended API, declare the submodules as pub(crate) mod (or mod) and keep only the pub use list.

As per coding guidelines: "Make the module root wire the pieces together and expose the smallest useful API."

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In `@src/harness/tool_calling/mod.rs` around lines 41 - 48, Restrict the parse and
pformat module declarations in the module root to crate-private or private
visibility, while retaining the existing curated pub use re-exports. Ensure
callers continue using ParsedToolCall, parse_tool_calls, PFormatRegistry, and
the other explicitly re-exported symbols without exposing internal helpers such
as find_first_tag or find_json_end.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/harness/tool_calling/mod.rs`:
- Around line 13-16: Update the module documentation near the parser-format list
to replace the unmatched tool_call fence notation with the wording “fenced
tool_call blocks,” preserving the surrounding format descriptions.

In `@src/harness/tool_calling/parse_test.rs`:
- Around line 230-237: Remove the stale documentation block immediately
preceding garbled_pipe_tags_with_json_body_and_call_prefix_parse, since it does
not describe that parser test. Do not add replacement documentation in this
file; relocate it only if an existing test specifically covers assistant-history
extra_content serialization.

In `@src/harness/tool_calling/parse.rs`:
- Around line 617-618: Update build_curl_command in
src/harness/tool_calling/parse.rs:617-618 to replace single quotes using the
POSIX shell escape r"'\''". Update the expected curl command in
src/harness/tool_calling/parse_test.rs:177-180 to match the corrected escaping.
- Around line 107-110: Update the arguments extraction in the parse flow to
replace the Some/None match on value.get("arguments") with the ? operator,
preserving the existing early-None behavior and parse_arguments_value call.
- Around line 960-999: Update the tool-call recovery loop around parse_call and
matching_tool_call_close_tag to parse each tag body directly, rather than
pairing tags with json_calls via json_idx; preserve all calls produced from
multi-call JSON bodies and markdown/GLM grammars. Remove the now-unused json_idx
variable and add coverage for a single tag body containing two JSON calls with a
non-empty registry.
- Around line 356-386: Update the parser around the expect_key state to track
whether the innermost container is an object or array, setting expect_key after
commas only for object containers so array literals such as true, false, and
null remain unquoted; add coverage for {flags:[true,false],n:null}.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/harness/tool_calling/mod.rs`:
- Around line 41-48: Restrict the parse and pformat module declarations in the
module root to crate-private or private visibility, while retaining the existing
curated pub use re-exports. Ensure callers continue using ParsedToolCall,
parse_tool_calls, PFormatRegistry, and the other explicitly re-exported symbols
without exposing internal helpers such as find_first_tag or find_json_end.

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[senamakel]

Merged main in and added a regression probe. Two notes for review.

1. This PR would have deleted harness::handoff

#103 merged while this branch was open, so main gained src/harness/handoff.rs. This branch predated it, and the diff was showing handoff.rs and handoff_test.rs as deleted (−471 lines) — merging as-is would have removed the module #103 had just added.

Fixed by merging main. The regex dependency conflict resolved to a single entry naming both consumers (tool_calling parses with it, handoff strips markup with it) rather than either PR's one-sided comment. Current scope is Cargo.toml, src/harness/mod.rs, and src/harness/tool_calling/* — no deletions.

2. A pre-existing dropped-call bug, verified not to be a regression

The tag-walk rewrite replaced the ordinal json_calls pairing with re-parsing each tag body directly. That is an improvement — the old scheme could not represent a tag body holding several JSON calls — but the new else branch handles JSON only, whereas the old fallback drew on the canonical parse (JSON and markdown/GLM).

So I probed it. A response mixing a p-format tag with a non-JSON sibling:

<tool_call>echo[hello]</tool_call>
<tool_call>shell/command>ls -la</tool_call>

Once any tag yields a p-format call, combined is non-empty and the canonical fallback never fires, so the GLM call is silently dropped — the agent loses a tool invocation and nothing reports it.

This is not a regression. I ran the same probe against the pre-rewrite parser (45557a2) and against the original OpenHuman code, and both fail it identically. It is inherited behaviour.

Two tests were added:

• a_pformat_tag_does_not_suppress_a_sibling_fenced_json_tag — passes, and guards the rewrite's actual gain (a fenced-JSON sibling now survives).
• a_pformat_tag_does_not_suppress_a_sibling_glm_tag — #[ignore]d, documenting the limitation with its cause and the evidence it predates this PR.

I left the bug unfixed deliberately. Routing the non-p-format branch through the full grammar set is a behaviour change to prompt-guided tool-call recovery, and it belongs in its own change with its own review rather than riding along in a relocation PR. #[ignore] rather than deletion so it stays visible.

Verification: cargo test --all-features --lib → 1820 passed, 0 failed, 1 ignored · clippy clean · fmt clean.

[senamakel]

The GLM drop documented above is now fixed in #104, stacked on this branch — so the #[ignore]d test here becomes a passing one there. #104 retargets to main automatically once this merges.

Worth knowing for review: the obvious fix was wrong. Routing the non-p-format branch through parse_tool_calls would have traded this silent drop for a different one — that function forbids the args/parameters/input aliases for a bare top-level object, but a <tool_call> tag is an explicit marker where they apply. And an unconditional GLM fallback double-counts a JSON body whose string values contain / and >, making the agent run the same tool twice. Both are pinned by tests in #104.