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Chat Template: From Messages To Tokens
Community description: How Messages Get Rendered into Model Inputs In an AI Agent, context is usually carried by...
Dev.to | Mar 10, 2026 | TingLei Feng
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In an AI Agent, context is usually carried by messages. Open-source models typically ship their model files on Hugging Face. In practice, API servers often render messages into the model’s real input using this Jinja template.
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