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Otherwise, it will be closed.\n- [x] Please use English. Otherwise, it will be closed.\n\n### Describe the bug\n\nWhen serving `openai/gpt-oss-20b` with its own `--tool-call-parser gpt-oss`, a **forced** tool choice comes back as HTTP 200 with `finish_reason: \"stop\"`, no `tool_calls`, and the harmony control tokens handed to the c\n\n## Literal error text\n```\ntool_choice required returns harmony control tokens\n```\n\n## Environment\nGitHub issue sgl-project/sglang #41747\n\n## Trigger / context\n### Checklist\n\n- [x] I searched related issues but found no solution.\n- [x] The bug persists in the latest version.\n- [x] Issues without environment info and a minimal reproducible demo are hard to resolve and may receive no feedback.\n- [x] If this is not a bug report but a general question, please start a discussion at https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/discussions. Otherwise, it will be closed.\n- [x] Please use English. Otherwise, it will be closed.\n\n### Describe the bug\n\nWhen serving `openai/gpt-oss-20b` with its own `--tool-call-parser gpt-oss`, a **forced** tool choice comes back as HTTP 200 with `finish_reason: \"stop\"`, no `tool_calls`, and the harmony control tokens handed to the client as assistant `content`:\n\n```\n<|channel|>commentary to=functions.get_weather<|constrain|>json<|message|>{\"city\":\"Paris\"}<|call|><|call|>\n```\n\n`tool_choice: \"auto\"` on the same server returns a properly parsed tool call, and so does the **streamed** version of the very same forced request. So this is not the model, not the pairing and not the grammar, the forced payload is generated correctly and only the non-streaming parse refuses to look at it.\n\nFirst-party model, first-party parser, no s\n\n## Source evidence\n- https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/issues/41747 (2026-09-29T19:45:27Z) — #41747\n\n## Freshness\n- classification: FRESH_7D\n- retrieved_at: 2026-10-02T09:46:06.809152Z\n- scout_id: C4fa7c2c56e\n\n## Scout notes\nThis Problem was published by the KFA Fresh Friction Scout from public sources. 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