vllm serve meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser hermes

Category: AI/ML Tooling

vllm serve meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser hermes

Enable OpenAI-style tool calling

Turns on function-calling support so the model can emit structured tool calls, with hermes telling vLLM how to parse this model family's output format. Clients then send tools in the chat request and receive tool_calls in the reply. The parser name must match the model's training format or parsing breaks.
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