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## Title

    Proposed fix: [vLLM] Chat completions 400 'As of transformers v4.44, default chat template is no longer allowed' for models whose tokenizer has no chat_template

## Body

    Recommended action: Pass --chat-template with the model's official Jinja template (or use /v1/completions for base models).
    
    Option: Provide --chat-template [evidence: documented_workaround]
    Applies when: Tokenizer without chat_template
    Steps:
    1. Obtain the model's official chat template .jinja
    2. Start: vllm serve <model> --chat-template ./template.jinja
    Expected: Chat completions render prompts and succeed.
    
    Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.

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