Why is there no tool autoselection feature

[profoundvision]

I think the number one unintuitive thing about OpenWebUI for new users is that you need to manually select images, code, search, etc.
I think an auto tool selector is a very useful addition to the functionalities.
The docs refer to https://openwebui.com/posts/1bcd41cc-f730-44cb-9384-e21c8a033e06 and also mention DEFAULT_TOOLS_FUNCTION_CALLING_PROMPT_TEMPLATE.
A problem with the script mentioned there is that it doesn't consider native features (images/code/search), only custom tools.
I managed to adapt it to also select the native features and made some changes to make it more robust.
The only thing I couldn't figure out right away was how to make it use the task model (which is invisible to the user for me but still can be used by the title generation etc.).
Script attached for reference.

I would argue that the tool calling script and documentation can be updated. But really I think this should be part of the main functionality. Let's discuss.

tool-autoselect.py

[Classic298]

Just call the task model with a chat completions call then?

And publish it on openwebui.com for everyone to use!

[profoundvision]

I think I can figure out how to use the task model.
After I have fully tested the filter I will share it in the community page.

But my main point of discussion is: why this is not a feature now and if it is on the roadmap.

[Classic298]

Anything that can be done well via plugins/filters/functions should be done so.

Every extra first party feature is extra work and maintenance work from the maintainer and us contributors and if it breaks or something doesn't work it's extra work - and people will come around and ask for 10 extra features regarding this function and it's just all around extra work for something that could be easily done via filter/plugin instead

That's why the plugin system exists.

Wordpress also has plugins. Barebones wordpress basically has very little features. You get a lot of functionality only via Plugins. And yet nobody asks why you need a plugin in wordpress to make reusable buttons for pages.

[profoundvision]

I can see that. I think this is still a useful feature but maybe I can later create a convincing PR myself.

What I think may be a bit confusing at the moment is that the documentation mentions:
TOOLS_FUNCTION_CALLING_PROMPT_TEMPLATE
Which seems to be aimed at automatically selecting tools.

A quick look at the code seems to suggest that it is not really used at the moment.
If it is not a plan at the moment maybe it could be removed from the docs?

[Classic298]

its not really used because that is just the template

it is parsed into the actual function calling prompt then
and if you use native tool calling mode it is not used at all of course