PSA: Watch out for extra spaces in chat-template-kwargs when using Qwen3.6 with

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I build context/harness optimization tooling, so provider-side serialization quirks actually matter to me. If you're optimizing over prompts, you

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I've got the model Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-4bit running in oMLX, and I want to enable the kwarg preserve_thinking as described here: <a

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><h1>Problem</h1> <p><code>llama-server</code> only handles <code>reasoning_effort: &quot;none&quot;</code> (disables thinking). All other values

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hi,</p> <p>I taught Computer Science for 30 years in a French School of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science Department.</p> <p>I recently

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><blockquote> <p>Wait, I need to be careful about the &quot;no_think&quot; tag in the system prompt. The system prompt says <code>/no_think</code>.

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