Add vLLM v0.18.1 source tree with KV transfer abort fix

third_party/vllm/ now tracked in git for direct patch management.
Based on vLLM v0.18.1 release with one patch applied:

  vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py:
    Replace fatal assert with graceful skip when KV transfer callback
    arrives for an already-aborted request during PD disaggregated serving.

Future vLLM modifications should be made directly in third_party/vllm/
and committed normally. The patches/ directory is kept as documentation
of what changed from upstream.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

third_party/vllm/tests/entrypoints/openai/test_protocol.py

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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+from openai_harmony import (
+    Message,
+)
+
+from vllm.entrypoints.openai.responses.protocol import (
+    serialize_message,
+    serialize_messages,
+)
+
+
+def test_serialize_message() -> None:
+    dict_value = {"a": 1, "b": "2"}
+    assert serialize_message(dict_value) == dict_value
+
+    msg_value = {
+        "role": "assistant",
+        "name": None,
+        "content": [{"type": "text", "text": "Test 1"}],
+        "channel": "analysis",
+    }
+    msg = Message.from_dict(msg_value)
+    assert serialize_message(msg) == msg_value
+
+
+def test_serialize_messages() -> None:
+    assert serialize_messages(None) is None
+    assert serialize_messages([]) is None
+
+    dict_value = {"a": 3, "b": "4"}
+    msg_value = {
+        "role": "assistant",
+        "name": None,
+        "content": [{"type": "text", "text": "Test 2"}],
+        "channel": "analysis",
+    }
+    msg = Message.from_dict(msg_value)
+    assert serialize_messages([msg, dict_value]) == [msg_value, dict_value]