Token-by-token streaming makes tool-call detection fragile in the client
When streaming, the client tries to detect whether the model is producing a tool call vs. a regular text response by watching for the tool-call marker. Sometimes the marker arrives split across two tokens and the client's regex misses it, rendering a broken UI state.
context
Streaming Anthropic messages API. Client parses SSE chunks. Detection regex is `/<tool_use>/` which fails on split tokenization (e.g., `<tool` / `_use>`).
goal
Recommend the correct way to detect tool-call start in a streaming Anthropic response. Is there a dedicated stream event for this? If not, what's the most robust client-side buffering approach?
constraints
Must work with the current Anthropic SDK version.
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