When LLMs return JSON wrapped in markdown code blocks (e.g. ```json...```),
the Converter.to_pydantic() method failed to parse the response, causing
Pydantic validation errors when saving to long-term memory.
Changes:
- Add _strip_markdown_fences() helper to remove markdown code-block delimiters
- Apply fence stripping before model_validate_json() in both function-calling
and non-function-calling paths of Converter.to_pydantic()
- Add handle_partial_json() fallback in the function-calling path
- Apply fence stripping in convert_to_model() before json.loads()
- Add 11 tests covering the fix
Co-Authored-By: João <joao@crewai.com>
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