chat: make tool description and parameters optional per OpenAI spec (#18478)

* chat: make tool description and parameters optional per OpenAI spec

Per the OpenAI API specification, both 'description' and 'parameters'
fields in tool function definitions are optional. Previously, the parser
would throw an exception if these fields were missing.

Attempts to fix #17667

* refactor: use value() for cleaner optional field access

common/chat.cpp

@@ -380,8 +380,8 @@ std::vector<common_chat_tool> common_chat_tools_parse_oaicompat(const json & too
                 const auto & function = tool.at("function");
                 result.push_back({
                     /* .name = */ function.at("name"),
-                    /* .description = */ function.at("description"),
-                    /* .parameters = */ function.at("parameters").dump(),
+                    /* .description = */ function.value("description", ""),
+                    /* .parameters = */ function.value("parameters", json::object()).dump(),
                 });
             }
         }

tests/test-chat.cpp

@@ -724,6 +724,30 @@ static void test_tools_oaicompat_json_conversion() {
             "]"
         ),
         common_chat_tools_to_json_oaicompat<json>({special_function_tool}).dump(2));
+
+    {
+        auto tools_no_params = common_chat_tools_parse_oaicompat(json::parse(
+            R"([{"type": "function", "function": {"name": "test_func", "description": "A test"}}])"));
+        assert_equals((size_t) 1, tools_no_params.size());
+        assert_equals(std::string("test_func"), tools_no_params[0].name);
+        assert_equals(std::string("A test"), tools_no_params[0].description);
+        assert_equals(std::string("{}"), tools_no_params[0].parameters);
+    }
+    {
+        auto tools_no_desc = common_chat_tools_parse_oaicompat(json::parse(
+            R"([{"type": "function", "function": {"name": "test_func", "parameters": {"type": "object"}}}])"));
+        assert_equals((size_t) 1, tools_no_desc.size());
+        assert_equals(std::string("test_func"), tools_no_desc[0].name);
+        assert_equals(std::string(""), tools_no_desc[0].description);
+    }
+    {
+        auto tools_minimal = common_chat_tools_parse_oaicompat(json::parse(
+            R"([{"type": "function", "function": {"name": "test_func"}}])"));
+        assert_equals((size_t) 1, tools_minimal.size());
+        assert_equals(std::string("test_func"), tools_minimal[0].name);
+        assert_equals(std::string(""), tools_minimal[0].description);
+        assert_equals(std::string("{}"), tools_minimal[0].parameters);
+    }
 }
 
 static void test_template_output_parsers() {