@MaximeRivest: Tool calling in open source LLMs is wildly different from one model to another. I just wipped up: http://chattemplatepl…

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A new web tool, Chat Template Playground, lets users visualize how different open-source LLMs render their chat templates, highlighting differences in prompting and tokenization.

Tool calling in open source LLMs is wildly different from one model to another. I just wipped up: http://chattemplateplayground.com to help me vizualize how models on huggingface renders their chat Same messages very different prompt and tokenization! Try it and contrast gemma, with qwen, with gpt-oss, with kimi-2.6, with glm-5.1
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Tool calling in open source LLMs is wildly different from one model to another.

I just wipped up: http://chattemplateplayground.com to help me vizualize how models on huggingface renders their chat

Same messages very different prompt and tokenization!

Try it and contrast gemma, with qwen, with gpt-oss, with kimi-2.6, with glm-5.1


Chat Template Playground

Source: https://chattemplateplayground.com/ Some models are gated (e.g. Meta Llama 3) or hosted in private repositories. Provide a Hugging Face User Access Token (Read) to fetch their templates directly.

Hugging Face API Token

This token is stored locally in your browser’s local storage and is sent only to the official Hugging Face API (huggingface.co).

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