fix: support Anthropic tool_use and tool_result in token counter #16351
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Title
Fix token counting for Anthropic tool interactions
Relevant issues
Fixes #14236
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🐛 Bug Fix
✅ Test
Changes
Adds support for counting tokens in Anthropic's tool_use and tool_result
content blocks. Previously, these content types caused "Invalid content
type" errors in the router's pre-call checks, preventing proper context
window filtering for Claude Code requests with tool interactions.
tool_usecontent type handler in_count_content_list()to count tokens from tool name and input parameterstool_resultcontent type handler supporting both string and nested list content formats