fix: MLX tool calls, workflow model loading, reasoning, and text-only VLM - #773
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds commons tool-provider dispatch and progress reporting, a web-research provider, an agent workflow runtime with Swift APIs, MLX tool-call forwarding, shared secure-storage routing, and suspended-download recovery. ChangesTool-provider runtime
Agent workflow runtime
Swift platform maintenance
Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to This PR adds workflow and tool-calling behavior while changing persistence, provider, web, and runtime paths; unresolved validation, security, lifetime, ABI, and malformed-input issues could cause incorrect execution, exposed secrets, crashes, or corrupted behavior. It is not ready to merge until these risks are fixed or explicitly accepted. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SwiftAPI
participant WorkflowABI
participant WorkflowRunner
participant NodeExecutor
participant HostCallbacks
SwiftAPI->>WorkflowABI: Create workflow run
WorkflowABI->>WorkflowRunner: Register and start run
WorkflowRunner->>NodeExecutor: Execute nodes in topological order
NodeExecutor->>HostCallbacks: Invoke tool or code callback
HostCallbacks-->>NodeExecutor: Return serialized result
NodeExecutor-->>WorkflowRunner: Record node output
WorkflowRunner-->>SwiftAPI: Emit run events
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participant SwiftAPI
participant ToolCallingRunLoop
participant ToolProviderRegistry
participant WebResearchProvider
participant HTTPTransport
SwiftAPI->>ToolCallingRunLoop: Start generation
ToolCallingRunLoop->>ToolProviderRegistry: Resolve web_research
ToolCallingRunLoop->>WebResearchProvider: Execute provider
WebResearchProvider->>HTTPTransport: Search and fetch sources
WebResearchProvider-->>ToolCallingRunLoop: Return grounded result
ToolCallingRunLoop-->>SwiftAPI: Deliver tool progress and result
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In `@bindings/swift/Sources/MLXRuntime/MLX.swift`:
- Around line 965-977: Update the tool-call forwarding branches in the event
loop, including rejectedToolCall and the VLM path, to honor a false result from
onToken: cancel the active session and exit the loop immediately, matching
existing chunk-handling behavior. Ensure the VLM path cannot flush held tokens
after cancellation.
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In `@bindings/swift/Sources/MLXRuntime/MLX.swift`:
- Around line 969-973: Update both tool-event branches around toolCallWireText
and the rejected-tool-call handling to flush RepetitionRunGuard’s held tokens
before invoking the event callback. If flushing returns false, cancel and exit
generationLoop without forwarding the tool event; otherwise preserve the
existing callback behavior.
- Around line 969-973: Update the VLM and LLM generation flows around the
onToken callback so a false result cancels the task producing
container.generate(...) and retains its handle for awaiting. Use
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core/include/rac/plugin/rac_tool_progress.h (1)
40-41: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winRename the callback typedef to use the required
_tsuffix.Rename
rac_tool_progress_sink_fntorac_tool_progress_sink_fn_t. Updaterac_tool_progress_sink_registerand all callers in this change.As per coding guidelines, “types suffixed
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idl/SCHEMA_LOCK (1)
17-17: LGTM!core/tests/CMakeLists.txt (1)
1041-1053: LGTM!Also applies to: 1055-1067, 1069-1081
core/tests/test_tool_progress.cpp (2)
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Sandbox verification was unavailable.Include
<cstdlib>and handle a null allocation indup_json.
dup_jsoncallsstd::malloc, but the file includes only<cassert>,<cstdio>,<cstring>,<string>, and<vector>. The C++ standard declaresstd::mallocin<cstdlib>. Compilation currently depends on a transitive include, which is not guaranteed across toolchains.
std::memcpyon Line 75 also writes through the returned pointer without a null check. Cppcheck reports this at the same line.🛠️ Proposed fix
`#include` <cassert> +#include <cstdlib> `#include` <cstdio> `#include` <cstring>char* dup_json(const char* text) { const size_t len = std::strlen(text); char* out = static_cast<char*>(std::malloc(len + 1)); + assert(out != nullptr); + if (out == nullptr) { + return nullptr; + } std::memcpy(out, text, len + 1); return out; }
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Sandbox verification was unavailable.Verify how many times the dispatch calls the cancel predicate.
cancel_after_tworeturnstrueonly on its third invocation. The assertions on Lines 266-267 therefore assume thatexecute_via_providerinvokes the predicate exactly once peremitand once peris_cancelled. IfToolProgressScopepolls the predicate a different number of times, for example once per emit plus one latch check, this test fails or passes for the wrong reason.Consider latching on emit count instead of predicate call count, so the test asserts the observable contract rather than the internal poll count.
bindings/swift/Sources/RunAnywhere/Features/Downloads/BackgroundDownloadCoordinator.swift (1)
230-248: LGTM!Also applies to: 249-257
core/src/plugin/rac_tool_provider_registry.cpp (1)
1-117: LGTM!core/src/features/llm/tool_provider_dispatch.h (1)
1-64: LGTM!core/src/features/llm/tool_provider_dispatch.cpp (1)
1-100: LGTM!bindings/swift/Sources/RunAnywhere/CRACommons/include/CRACommons.h (1)
54-56: LGTM!bindings/swift/Sources/RunAnywhere/CRACommons/include/rac_tool_progress.h (1)
1-6: LGTM!bindings/swift/Sources/RunAnywhere/CRACommons/include/rac_tool_provider.h (1)
1-6: LGTM!bindings/swift/Sources/RunAnywhere/CRACommons/include/rac_web_research.h (1)
1-6: LGTM!core/CMakeLists.txt (1)
766-770: LGTM!core/src/plugin/web_search_client.h (1)
19-81: LGTM!core/src/plugin/web_search_client.cpp (1)
201-255: LGTM!core/src/plugin/web_research_internal.h (1)
27-104: LGTM!core/src/plugin/web_research_provider.cpp (1)
305-449: LGTM!core/tests/test_web_research_pipeline.cpp (1)
102-185: LGTM!Also applies to: 285-335
core/tests/test_web_research.cpp (2)
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Sandbox verification was unavailable.Verify the lambda return type matches
rac_bool_t.These capture-less lambdas deduce their return type from
RAC_TRUEandRAC_FALSE. The closure converts to a function pointer only when the deduced type is exactlyrac_bool_t. Ifrac_bool_tis a narrower typedef, such asuint8_t, andRAC_TRUEis the macro1, the lambdas deduceintand the assignments do not compile.test_web_research_pipeline.cppavoids this by using named functions with declaredrac_bool_treturn types.Add explicit trailing return types if the definitions do not match:
🛡️ Proposed hardening
ctx.emit = [](const rac_tool_context_t*, const char*, const char*, rac_tool_progress_status_t, - const char*) { return RAC_TRUE; }; - ctx.is_cancelled = [](const rac_tool_context_t*) { return RAC_FALSE; }; + const char*) -> rac_bool_t { return RAC_TRUE; }; + ctx.is_cancelled = [](const rac_tool_context_t*) -> rac_bool_t { return RAC_FALSE; };
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In `@bindings/swift/Sources/RunAnywhere/Foundation/Security/SecureStore.swift`:
- Around line 44-46: Update SecureStore.write to avoid ignoring
permission-setting failures: create the temporary file with 0o600 before
writing, atomically replace the destination, then apply and verify 0o600 on the
final file and propagate any failure instead of using try?. Preserve atomic
write behavior and report failure when the final mode is not secured.
In `@core/include/rac/plugin/rac_tool_provider.h`:
- Around line 31-42: Replace the hand-written rac_tool_progress_status_t enum in
core/include/rac/plugin/rac_tool_provider.h:31-42 with the generated
C-compatible protobuf type or alias for ToolProgressStatus. In
bindings/swift/Sources/RunAnywhere/Public/Extensions/LLM/RunAnywhere+ToolProgress.swift:27-75,
replace the parallel RAToolProgress model with a typealias or extensions over
the generated RAToolProgress type so all protobuf wire fields remain exposed;
regenerate generated sources as needed.
- Around line 111-175: Add the RAC_PLUGIN_API_VERSION field to
rac_tool_provider_t, set the expected API version to 9, and expand reserved from
six to seven slots so the vtable has ten active fields and seven reserved slots.
Update rac_tool_provider_register to reject any provider whose version does not
match before storing it in the registry.
In `@core/src/features/llm/tool_calling_run_loop.cpp`:
- Around line 562-592: Preserve host ownership for duplicate tool names by
recording the original names in ctx.tool_options before the provider-appending
loop runs, then update the dispatch logic around provider_owns and on_execute to
treat those names as host tools even when a registry provider has the same name.
Provider-only names should continue routing through the commons provider.
In `@core/src/plugin/rac_tool_progress.cpp`:
- Around line 43-46: Update sink_snapshot and the sink
replacement/unregistration logic to track in-flight callbacks, incrementing the
count before invoking a snapshotted callback and decrementing it afterward; make
replacement or removal wait until callbacks using the previous sink have
quiesced before freeing its user_data. Keep callback invocation outside
sink_mutex so reentrant registration remains safe.
In `@core/src/plugin/web_research_provider.cpp`:
- Around line 486-501: Update quoted_spans to recognize only double-quote
characters as span delimiters; apostrophes in contractions and possessives must
remain ordinary sentence text. Preserve the existing extraction and
minimum-length behavior for double-quoted spans.
- Around line 785-788: Update the first_space check in query_is_usable to
require first_space to be greater than zero before accessing line[first_space -
1], while preserving the existing colon rejection for spaces occurring after the
first character.
- Around line 744-746: Update the bullet-prefix handling in the surrounding
output-normalization logic: remove the invalid single-character 0x2022
comparison and detect the UTF-8 bullet byte sequence instead, while preserving
existing '-' and '*' trimming behavior and avoiding signed-char or -Werror
issues.
- Around line 580-584: Update the sentence-splitting loop around find_first_of
in the web research provider so periods inside decimal numbers such as 94.9 are
not treated as sentence boundaries. Preserve the complete numeric token in one
fragment, allowing distinctive_terms and citation validation to inspect it and
preventing severed text from remaining in the returned answer.
In `@core/src/plugin/web_search_client.cpp`:
- Around line 364-375: Guard response.body_bytes in search before constructing
the std::string body, treating a null body pointer as an empty response or
returning the established error outcome as appropriate. Preserve normal body
parsing for non-null pointers and ensure cleanup via rac_http_response_free and
rac_http_client_destroy on every path.
In `@idl/tool_calling.proto`:
- Around line 425-456: The ToolProgress identifier is not unique when parallel
executions reuse the same sequence values. In idl/tool_calling.proto lines
425-456, add a wire-stable execution/tool-call identifier to the ToolProgress
message; in
bindings/swift/Sources/RunAnywhere/Public/Extensions/LLM/RunAnywhere+ToolProgress.swift
lines 64-65, update the Identifiable.id construction to combine that execution
identifier with sequence so concurrent progress rows remain distinct.
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In `@core/include/rac/plugin/rac_tool_progress.h`:
- Around line 40-41: Rename the callback typedef rac_tool_progress_sink_fn to
rac_tool_progress_sink_fn_t, then update rac_tool_progress_sink_register and
every caller or reference in this change to use the new typedef name
consistently.
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| /** | ||
| * @brief Status of one stage of a tool's work. | ||
| * | ||
| * Mirrors `runanywhere.v1.ToolProgressStatus`. Stated in C so a provider | ||
| * never has to link protobuf. | ||
| */ | ||
| typedef enum rac_tool_progress_status { | ||
| RAC_TOOL_PROGRESS_UNSPECIFIED = 0, | ||
| RAC_TOOL_PROGRESS_STARTED = 1, | ||
| RAC_TOOL_PROGRESS_COMPLETED = 2, | ||
| RAC_TOOL_PROGRESS_FAILED = 3 | ||
| } rac_tool_progress_status_t; |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Use generated protobuf types for tool-progress contracts.
These declarations duplicate ToolProgressStatus and ToolProgress. The duplicate Swift model also omits wire fields. This permits schema drift across the C ABI and Swift API.
core/include/rac/plugin/rac_tool_provider.h#L31-L42: replace the hand-written status enum with the generated C-compatible protobuf type or generated alias.bindings/swift/Sources/RunAnywhere/Public/Extensions/LLM/RunAnywhere+ToolProgress.swift#L27-L75: exposeRAToolProgressthrough a typealias or extensions instead of a parallel structured type.
As per coding guidelines, “Proto types are canonical: never hand-write enum values or structured types that exist in idl/*.proto — use the generated types/typealiases and regenerate instead.”
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In `@core/include/rac/plugin/rac_tool_provider.h` around lines 31 - 42, Replace
the hand-written rac_tool_progress_status_t enum in
core/include/rac/plugin/rac_tool_provider.h:31-42 with the generated
C-compatible protobuf type or alias for ToolProgressStatus. In
bindings/swift/Sources/RunAnywhere/Public/Extensions/LLM/RunAnywhere+ToolProgress.swift:27-75,
replace the parallel RAToolProgress model with a typealias or extensions over
the generated RAToolProgress type so all protobuf wire fields remain exposed;
regenerate generated sources as needed.
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| typedef struct rac_tool_provider { | ||
| /** Stable tool name as the model sees it, e.g. "search_web". MUST NOT be NULL. */ | ||
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| * What the tool does, in the wording the model reads. | ||
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| * Under AUTO tool choice this text is the only channel that decides | ||
| * whether the tool is called at all, so it belongs with the provider | ||
| * rather than being restated by each binding. | ||
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| const char* description; | ||
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| const char* category; | ||
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| * Parameters as a JSON Schema object: | ||
| * `{"type":"object","properties":{...},"required":[...]}`. | ||
| * A tool taking no arguments passes `"{}"`. MUST NOT be NULL. | ||
| */ | ||
| const char* parameters_json; | ||
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| /** | ||
| * Run the tool. | ||
| * | ||
| * `args_json` is a JSON object matching `parameters_json`. `ctx` is never | ||
| * NULL and carries the progress emitter and cancel check; a tool that | ||
| * finishes in one step may ignore it. On success the | ||
| * provider allocates `out_result_json` with `rac_alloc` and the caller | ||
| * frees it. A tool that fails should still return RAC_SUCCESS with an | ||
| * `error` key in the payload when the model can usefully see the failure; | ||
| * reserve a non-success result for a tool that could not run at all. | ||
| */ | ||
| rac_result_t (*execute)(const char* args_json, const rac_tool_context_t* ctx, | ||
| char** out_result_json, void* user_data); | ||
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| /** | ||
| * Keys the run loop may read out of a successful result, NULL-terminated. | ||
| * | ||
| * This exists so commons stops hardcoding `summary` and `source_url` for | ||
| * one known tool. A provider declares what it publishes and attribution | ||
| * reads that instead. May be NULL when nothing is published. | ||
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| * Whether the final turn after this tool ran should be grounded in the | ||
| * tool's result: answer only from it, and cite it. | ||
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| * This is what `tool_calling.cpp` currently derives from the literal name | ||
| * `"search_web"`. A tool that returns evidence declares it here instead of | ||
| * commons knowing one tool by name. | ||
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| uint8_t reserved[6]; | ||
| } rac_tool_provider_t; |
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Add ABI version validation and the required reserved slot.
rac_tool_provider_t has nine active fields and reserved[6]. It has no RAC_PLUGIN_API_VERSION field. The registry therefore cannot reject a provider compiled for an incompatible layout.
Add an API-version field, validate it in rac_tool_provider_register, and use seven reserved slots. A version mismatch must fail before the registry stores the provider.
As per coding guidelines, “RAC_PLUGIN_API_VERSION = 9u; a version mismatch is an immediate rejection. Each vtable has 10 active primitive slots and 7 reserved.”
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In `@core/include/rac/plugin/rac_tool_provider.h` around lines 111 - 175, Add the
RAC_PLUGIN_API_VERSION field to rac_tool_provider_t, set the expected API
version to 9, and expand reserved from six to seven slots so the vtable has ten
active fields and seven reserved slots. Update rac_tool_provider_register to
reject any provider whose version does not match before storing it in the
registry.
Source: Coding guidelines
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Worked through all 20 review comments. Each was checked against the code before web_research and search Tool provider ABI ToolProgress identity Agent runner Tool ownership Swift Not applied, with reasons Honor callback cancellation for tool-call output — already the case. Both Use generated protobuf types for tool-progress contracts — declining, because Verified: |
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Tool calling never worked on the MLX backend. Any model that emitted a tool call
failed the whole turn with a bare
-130(RAC_ERROR_GENERATION_FAILED), whileplain generation on the same model was fine.
What was happening
Commons parses tool calls out of the model's text, in the DEFAULT wire form from
core/src/features/llm/tool_calling.cpp:MLX-LM's
ToolCallProcessorbuffers exactly that text and consumes it, handingback a structured
Generation.toolCallinstead.MLXRuntimethen dropped it:So commons' run loop received output with no tool call in it,
run_generate_oncereturned non-success, and the loop reported
LLM generation failed.The rejection path made it worse. Commons renders the tool schema into the
prompt and never declares tools to MLX-LM, so MLX-LM cannot match a call against
its own (empty) tool list and emits
.rejectedToolCall(reason: .undeclaredTool).MLXRuntimeturned that into a thrownRejectedToolCallError, meaning the modelproducing a correct tool call was what killed the turn.
The change
case .toolCallnow serializes the call back to the wire form and emits itthrough the token callback, so commons parses it the same way it does for every
other engine. No new representation is introduced on either side.
case .rejectedToolCallforwards the raw text when it arrived intact and letscommons judge it. A truncated preview still throws, keeping the fail-closed
contract the original comment was protecting: half a call is worse than none.
Both generation loops are covered, LLM and VLM.
Testing
Verified in the macOS example app against
mlx-lfm2.5-vl-3b-4bitandMLX Qwen3.5 0.8B 4bit. Asking "what is the current local time and date?" withtools enabled now runs
get_current_timeand answers from the result. Before thechange the same prompt failed every time with
-130.Not covered here: commons still does not declare tools to MLX-LM, so the
rejection path is load-bearing rather than a fallback. Declaring them through
applyChatTemplate(messages:tools:)would be the cleaner fix and needs a way topass tool schemas to the backend.
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Workflow nodes could not load a model at all.
ensure_model_loadedpassed anull registry handle to
rac_model_lifecycle_load_proto, which rejects thatbefore it looks at anything else, so every LLM Generate node failed with
"could not load model 'x'" whatever model was set. The message came from the
node, not from the ABI, so it read as a missing model. The rerank node had the
same bug against
rac_model_lifecycle_resolve_paths_proto.Required tool-call arguments were never checked. The validator covered pack
nodes only, and it counted a key holding whitespace as configured. Tool nodes now
get the same check and a blank value counts as unset.
web_researchcut answers off mid-sentence at a 640-token compose budget.Now 1536.
The thinking toggle did nothing on MLX. The runtime passed
enable_thinkingonly when suppressing, and Qwen's template reads an undefined flag as off,
emitting a pre-closed
<think></think>pair. It is now stated in bothdirections. Two follow-on faults are fixed with it: the registry fallback in
thinking_tags_from_request_or_modeloverwrote the MLX prefill signal withfalse, and the terminal result recomputed the split from raw text, which cannotsee an opening tag that lived in the prompt. Together these made a reasoning turn
arrive as one 7,800-character reply with the chain of thought in the answer.
A vision model could not hold a text conversation. Commons required exactly
one image, and both the MLX engine adapter and the MLX runtime rejected a null
one, so a VLM loaded for chat failed every text turn with "no lifecycle LLM model
loaded".
Two public inputs could never work.
stt.transcribe(.file(...))sent a pathand commons refuses one, reporting a missing platform adapter;
ImageInput.bytessent container bytes, which commons refuses outright to avoid feeding JPEG data
to a backend expecting raw pixels. Both now decode on the Swift side, which is
the layer that owns platform I/O.
Testing
test_agent_workflowpasses at 38/38, including three new cases for the toolargument validation. The rest was verified end to end against real models on
macOS through the iOS app's test suite, which loads models off disk and runs
inference rather than mocking the SDK.
Review round
All 20 review comments were worked through; the per-finding writeup is in a
comment below. Two more fixes came out of verifying them.
A failure now names its cause.
NativeProtoABI.invokeis the choke pointevery modality goes through, and it reported the proto buffer's message while the
engine's actual reason sat unread in
rac_error_get_details. An MLX speech modelthat could not run said "Inference failed"; it now says
Inference failed: MLX speech transcription failed: unsupportedAudioFormat: MLX speech inference currently accepts 16-bit mono PCM audio.The detail isthread-local and unstamped, so a stale one can in principle be appended; it is
read immediately after a failed call, the same window Solutions and Workflows
already rely on.
Audio inputs are decoded before they cross the ABI. That MLX message was
telling the truth.
AudioInput.filewas lowered as a container, and commonshands
audio_datato the engine without readingencoding— so a WAV arrivedwith its 44-byte header as the first samples. Sherpa tolerated it, which is why
its transcripts looked fine and hid the bug; MLX refused, which was correct. The
SDK now decodes to mono PCM16 through AVFoundation, where platform I/O belongs,
and states
audioFormat = .pcm, the field MLX actually gates on. All threeinstalled speech models now return accurate transcripts, where one previously
failed outright.
Worth flagging for other modalities: commons ignoring
encodingmeans any callerthat sends a container is feeding header bytes to an engine.
Still open
The plumbing above is fixed; what remains is per-model.
mlx-qwen3.5-0.8breasons but never closes its
<think>block, and the two llama.cpp models donot honour the toggle in either direction.
stt.transcribenow reaches the model and fails inside it with"Inference failed". Untouched here.
llm.generatequietly runs the whole tool-calling loop whenever anything is inthe global tool registry, because
toolChoicedefaults to.auto. Worthdeciding whether that is the intended meaning of auto.
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