It basically gets addressed in the chat_template (the composed text that gets presented to the tokenizer after you press enter). For qwen3's gguf, the tool injection looks like this:
{%- if tools %}
{{- '<|im_start|>system\n' }}
{%- if messages[0].role == 'system' %}
{{- messages[0].content + '\n\n' }}
{%- endif %}
{{- "# Tools\n\nYou may call one or more functions to assist with the user query.\n\nYou are provided with function signatures within <tools></tools> XML tags:\n<tools>" }}
{%- for tool in tools %}
{{- "\n" }}
{{- tool | tojson }}
{%- endfor %}
{{- "\n</tools>\n\nFor each function call, return a json object with function name and arguments within <tool_call></tool_call> XML tags:\n<tool_call>\n{\"name\": <function-name>, \"arguments\": <args-json-object>}\n</tool_call><|im_end|>\n" }}
{%- else %}
chat_template
(the composed text that gets presented to the tokenizer after you press enter). For qwen3's gguf, the tool injection looks like this: