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rbuchmayer-pplx de9502525a feat(perplexity): bind_tools and Responses-API tool round-trip (#37934)
## Summary

Follow-up to #37911 (released in `langchain-perplexity` 1.3.2). That PR
fixed the outbound `ToolMessage` / `AIMessage.tool_calls` serialization;
this one implements **`ChatPerplexity.bind_tools`**, which flips
`has_tool_calling` to `True` and lights up the full `langchain-tests`
standard tool-calling suite — the suite that would have caught #37911 in
the first place.

Verified live against the Perplexity Agent API (`openai/gpt-5.5`,
`use_responses_api=True`): a client-side function-tool round-trip
(invoke + stream) works end-to-end.

## Core change (the `bind_tools` work + the Responses-API follow-up)

- **`bind_tools`** mirrors `langchain-openai`: converts tools via
`convert_to_openai_tool`, normalizes `tool_choice`, and passes
Perplexity built-in tools (`web_search`, etc.) through unchanged.
- **`_to_responses_payload`** now translates tool turns into the
Responses (Agent) API's typed input items: `AIMessage.tool_calls` →
`function_call`, `ToolMessage` → `function_call_output`, and flattens
function tool specs. (The Responses API has no `tool` role, so this
translation is required for round-trips.)

## Changes required to make standard-suite tests pass on the Responses
route

- Streaming: `_convert_responses_stream_event_to_chunk` emits a
`tool_call_chunk` on `response.output_item.done` function calls —
required by `test_tool_calling` (which streams and asserts tool calls).
- `_content_to_text` reduces list-shaped assistant content to text in
the tool-call branch — required by `test_agent_loop` and
`test_tool_message_histories_list_content`.
- `response_metadata["model_name"]` on the Responses route, mirroring
Chat Completions — required by `test_usage_metadata` /
`test_usage_metadata_streaming` (used by `langchain_core` usage
callbacks).

## Tests

- `sonar` standard class marked `has_tool_calling=False` (the family
returns 400 "Tool calling is not supported for this model").
- New `TestPerplexityResponsesStandard` runs the full suite on
`openai/gpt-5.5` + `use_responses_api` with `has_tool_choice=False`:
**35 passed, 13 skipped, 2 xfailed**.
- The 2 xfails (`test_unicode_tool_call_integration`,
`test_structured_few_shot_examples`) hard-code `tool_choice="any"`. The
Responses (Agent) API does not support `tool_choice` (verified: every
form returns HTTP 200 without forcing a call), which `ChatPerplexity`
surfaces as `ValueError` — **existing behavior, unchanged here.**
Softening that to a warning can be a separate change.

`make format lint` clean; unit + standard tests green.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Mason Daugherty <mason@langchain.dev>
Co-authored-by: Mason Daugherty <github@mdrxy.com>
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