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Ollama drops tool calls to names not in tools and returns an empty reply

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TL;DR : When a model served by Ollama calls a function that isn't in the request's tools list, Ollama drops the call. The reply has no content and no tool_calls , but an eval_count above zero, so tokens were generated and then discarded. On Ollama 0.40.8 with qwen3:0.6b , a system prompt saying to…

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  1. 2026-10-22 05:47 · DEV Community — AI
    Ollama drops tool calls to names not in tools and returns an empty reply

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