Tool_choice = auto sending content and tool_calls

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Yep. “auto” is also the default, meaning “doesn’t affect behavior.” Forcing a tool call isn’t a practical use unless you have specific managed turns that aren’t typical user “chat”.

Others request that appearance, so I show how to do:

Tool_calls together with normal message.content

Sure. You can write a function where the description specifically describes the necessity for writing an initial message to the user about the intention to use the function, and then proceeding automatically to using the function after that. By doing so, you will receive both “content”, a response to be displayed, and tool_calls, a function call output. Then…it is up to the user to stick around to see if a human actually comes on the line after invocation of the tool and programming path of r…