Fixed Chat Template for Qwen 3.8: Enables Reasoning Effort Control and Tool Calling

ex-arman68 · reddit · 2026-08-14

A developer released a fixed Jinja chat template for Qwen 3.5, 3.6, and 3.8 models. Qwen 3.8 introduces prompt-steered reasoning effort, but the official template has issues like inability to disable thinking, poisoned chat history, and tool calling crashes. The fixed template supports full reasoning effort control, thinking toggle, KV cache hits, native llama.cpp support, and works with various inference engines.

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