> I'll need to investigate further but it doesn't seem promising.

That's what I meant by "waiting a few days for updates" in my other comment. Qwen 3.5 release, I remember a lot of complaints about: "tool calling isn't working properly" etc.

That was fixed shortly after: there was some template parsing work in llama.cpp. and unsloth pulled out some models and brought back better one for improving something else I can't quite remember, better done Quantization or something...

coder543 pointed out the same is happening regarding tool calling with gemma4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47619261