From 4090400dff77ca8aa6566625386251b54956085e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Concedo <39025047+LostRuins@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:51:29 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] improved gemma toolcall handling

---
 koboldcpp.py | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/koboldcpp.py b/koboldcpp.py
index 818d0fc9f..26341d5a4 100755
--- a/koboldcpp.py
+++ b/koboldcpp.py
@@ -3346,10 +3346,11 @@ def toolcall_to_normalized_json(text,start_tag,end_tag): #convert weird formats
     def parse_gemma4(text: str) -> str:
         if text.startswith("call:"):
             text = text[len("call:"):]
-        text = text.replace('<|"|>', '!$$REAL_QUOTE$$!')
-        text = text.replace('\\', '\\\\')
-        text = text.replace('"', '\\"')
-        text = text.replace('!$$REAL_QUOTE$$!','"')
+        if '<|"|>' in text:
+            text = text.replace('<|"|>', '!$$REAL_QUOTE$$!')
+            text = text.replace('\\', '\\\\')
+            text = text.replace('"', '\\"')
+            text = text.replace('!$$REAL_QUOTE$$!','"')
         fn_match = re.match(r'^([a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*)\{(.*)\}$', text.strip(), re.DOTALL) # extract fn name
         if not fn_match:
             return text