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Previously we decoded and re-encoded JSON schemas during validation,
which served no purpose since json.RawMessage already validates JSON
syntax. Worse, the re-encoding lost field ordering from the original
schema, which affects inference quality during step-by-step reasoning.

While fixing this ordering issue by using json.RawMessage directly,
testing revealed that schema_to_grammar (from llama.cpp) also fails to
preserve field order during grammar generation. This appears to be the
root cause of inference degradation.

This change prevents us from mangling the user's original schema order,
but we still need to address the ordering issue in schema_to_grammar.
That will be a separate change.

Updates #7978