I found that they didn't want to call tools in the same way as other models, and it led to bare tool calls in the response.
For vllm the official recipe [1] (for another model in the same family) is this:
--reasoning-parser qwen3 \
--enable-auto-tool-choice \
--tool-call-parser lfm2
[1] - https://recipes.vllm.ai/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-8B-A1B