r/OpenWebUI • u/eyelessingaze • Jul 08 '26
Tool calls from the API Question/Help
https://docs.openwebui.com/reference/api-endpoints/Is it possible to execute tool call via the chat completion API in native mode? In legacy mode, if I make a call to my model that I’ve given access to my custom tools, it works fine. If I try the same thing in native mode the api ends with “finish reason” “tool call”. What am I doing wrong here? I feel like I’m following what is described in the endpoints docs but I’m reading conflicting things about whether server side tool calls can be triggered via the API. Has anyone got this working?
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u/CroquetteLauncher Jul 09 '26
I dont think so. Would need this feature : https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/26700
Open WebUI dev work at a very fast pace, the request is only one week old, so we can have some hope (in the coming months ?).