fix: keep parameter descriptions for docstrings without a summary line#3795
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`generate_func_documentation` passes `inspect.getdoc(func)` to griffe, whose Google parser treats the docstring's first line as the summary. `inspect.getdoc()` strips the leading blank line, so a docstring that opens directly with `Args:` has the whole section swallowed as the summary and every parameter description is dropped from the generated tool schema. Add a leading newline so the section is parsed. Only the previously-broken case changes; docstrings that start with a summary are unaffected.
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Thanks for investigating this. I traced the example through the locked griffelib==2.0.1 implementation, and the proposed change is a no-op: Docstring immediately applies inspect.cleandoc(...), which removes the added leading newline. More importantly, the Google parser already treats an Args: header at offset 0 as a valid section, so the added test should also pass unchanged on the PR's base. I am going to close this PR because it does not demonstrate a base failure or change runtime behavior. |
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No linked issue — found while reading
function_schema.py.Summary
A function tool silently loses all of its parameter descriptions when the docstring omits a summary line and opens directly with the
Args:section — a very common style when the opening"""is on its own line:Before this change the generated schema for
query/limithas nodescription, and the function description wrongly becomes the rawArgs:block, so the model never sees the parameter descriptions.Root cause
generate_func_documentationpassesinspect.getdoc(func)to griffe'sDocstring. griffe's Google parser treats the docstring's first line as the summary, andinspect.getdoc()strips the leading blank line that would otherwise mark an empty summary. AnArgs:-first docstring therefore has its whole section swallowed as the summary and every parameter description dropped.Fix
Re-add a leading newline before parsing, so griffe sees an empty summary and parses the section normally:
This only changes the previously-broken case. I ran a matrix over google/numpy/sphinx docstrings with and without summaries — every shape except the broken one is byte-identical, and docstrings that begin with a summary keep their description exactly as before.
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test_docstring_without_summary_keeps_param_descriptionstotests/test_function_schema.py(fails before, passes after).test_function_schema.py,test_function_tool.py,test_function_tool_decorator.py, andtest_strict_schema.pypass (104 tests);ruffcheck + format clean.