Take tinyagents' null-tolerant sequence decoder

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What changed

The vendor/tinyagents gitlink, to b27d716 — the merge of
tinyhumansai/tinyagents#138, which itself carries
tinyhumansai/tinyinference#4. Nothing else.

Two of the four commits here are older local bumps that had never been sent
upstream (e0f3210 → a538888, i.e. tinyagents v2.1.2, and an intermediate step),
so this lands them at the same time. The net effect on main is one gitlink
moving.

vendor/tinybus is deliberately left at upstream's value. The oldest local
commit on this branch predates upstream moving tinybus forward, so merging it
unchanged would have quietly reverted eleven commits; nothing on this branch is
about tinybus.

Why

Several OpenAI-compatible endpoints spell "no tool calls" as "tool_calls": null
rather than by omitting the key, and Mistral-family models do it on every
plain-text completion:

{"choices":[{"index":0,"finish_reason":"stop",
  "message":{"role":"assistant","tool_calls":null,"content":"Hi!"}}]}

#[serde(default)] covers an absent key and nothing else — a key present with
null still reaches the Vec visitor and fails the whole response with
invalid type: null, expected a sequence.

The consequence is not a degraded response but a role that cannot function.
Found in a downstream loop where a sub-agent handoff to a Lean-specialised rung
(labs-leanstral-1-5) failed on 100% of calls while the model itself was
answering correctly.

Public API or behavior changes

None. One behavior change inherited from the bump, pinned by a test two levels
up: a body carrying "choices": null now fails with
Model("openai response contained no choices") rather than a serde error.

Validation

cargo check cannot run in this checkout (found a virtual manifest at vendor/tinyagents/Cargo.toml instead of a package manifest), so verification is
from the consumer and from upstream:

• downstream (math-agent, which depends on this): cargo build --all-targets --all-features ok, cargo test --all-features 1070 passed,
  cargo clippy -D warnings 0 warnings, against this exact tree;
• tinyagents#138: Rust SDK CI green, cargo check --workspace ok;
• tinyinference#4: fmt, clippy -D warnings, and 266 lib tests green, with
  three new tests for the null shapes.

The handoff that failed on every call now completes; confirmed on a live run.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Updated the bundled TinyAgents component to a newer revision.
  • No user-facing features or behavior changes were introduced.

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The vendor/tinyagents submodule reference changed from one commit to another. No exported or public declarations changed.

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Tinyagents update

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The vendored dependency currently points to a workspace root rather than a package-bearing revision, so consumers may be unable to load it and builds can fail outright. This is merge-blocking until the gitlink or dependency path is corrected.

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CI failed on the first push, and the cause was not the gitlink itself — it was what the gitlink now points at.

vendor/tinyagents was a single package up to 2.1.1 and is a virtual manifest from 2.1.2, so path = "vendor/tinyagents" stopped resolving the moment it moved:

error: failed to get `tinyagents` as a dependency of package `tinyloops v0.2.1`
Caused by: found a virtual manifest at .../vendor/tinyagents/Cargo.toml instead of a package manifest

That is cargo failing to load the source before any code is read, which is why all four jobs failed identically in under 35s and none of them named the reason. It is also, almost certainly, why the oldest bump on this branch was written locally and never sent: it would have hit exactly this.

Pushed bf543d2, which ports it:

• Cargo.toml — tinyagents { path = "vendor/tinyagents", version = "2.1.1" } becomes tinyagents-graph { path = "vendor/tinyagents/crates/tinyagents-graph", version = "2.1.2" };
• crates/tinyloops/Cargo.toml — the optional dep and the tinyagents feature's dep:;
• examples/tinyagents_harness.rs — two lines, tinyagents:: to tinyagents_graph::.

The umbrella tinyagents crate is gone in the new layout, and tinyagents-graph re-exports every item the example used (END, GraphBuilder, NodeContext, NodeResult, TinyAgentsError), so nothing else changed. The tinyagents feature keeps its name.

Locally, against this tree:

cargo fmt --all -- --check                            ok
cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -D warnings 0 warnings
cargo test --all-features                             592 passed, 0 failed

(The first local test run showed 57 link failures. They were LLVM ERROR: IO failure on output stream: Disk quota exceeded — a full tmpfs on the machine, not this branch. Re-run with TMPDIR elsewhere, green.)

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