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| `-ctv, --cache-type-v TYPE` | KV cache data type for V<br/>allowed values: f32, f16, bf16, q8_0, q4_0, q4_1, iq4_nl, q5_0, q5_1<br/>(default: f16)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CACHE_TYPE_V) |
| `-dt, --defrag-thold N` | KV cache defragmentation threshold (DEPRECATED)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_DEFRAG_THOLD) |
| `-np, --parallel N` | number of parallel sequences to decode (default: 1)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_N_PARALLEL) |
| `--mlock` | force system to keep model in RAM rather than swapping or compressing<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_MLOCK) |
| `--mmap, --no-mmap` | whether to memory-map model. (if mmap disabled, slower load but may reduce pageouts if not using mlock) (default: enabled)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_MMAP) |
| `-dio, --direct-io, -ndio, --no-direct-io` | use DirectIO if available. (default: disabled)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_DIO) |
| `--mlock` | DEPRECATED: force system to keep model in RAM rather than swapping or compressing<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_MLOCK) |
| `--mmap, --no-mmap` | DEPRECATED: whether to memory-map model. (if mmap disabled, slower load but may reduce pageouts if not using mlock)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_MMAP) |
| `-dio, --direct-io, -ndio, --no-direct-io` | DEPRECATED: use DirectIO if available<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_DIO) |
| `-lm, --load-mode MODE` | model loading mode (default: mmap)<br/>- mlock: force system to keep model in RAM rather than swapping or compressing.<br/>- mmap: memory-map model. (if mmap disabled, slower load but may reduce pageouts if not using mlock)<br/>- dio: use DirectIO if available.<br/><br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_LOAD_MODE) |
| `--numa TYPE` | attempt optimizations that help on some NUMA systems<br/>- distribute: spread execution evenly over all nodes<br/>- isolate: only spawn threads on CPUs on the node that execution started on<br/>- numactl: use the CPU map provided by numactl<br/>if run without this previously, it is recommended to drop the system page cache before using this<br/>see https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues/1437<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_NUMA) |
| `-dev, --device <dev1,dev2,..>` | comma-separated list of devices to use for offloading (none = don't offload)<br/>use --list-devices to see a list of available devices<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_DEVICE) |
| `--list-devices` | print list of available devices and exit |
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| -------- | ----------- |
| `--display-prompt, --no-display-prompt` | whether to print prompt at generation (default: true) |
| `-co, --color [on\|off\|auto]` | Colorize output to distinguish prompt and user input from generations ('on', 'off', or 'auto', default: 'auto')<br/>'auto' enables colors when output is to a terminal |
| `--ctx-checkpoints, --swa-checkpoints N` | max number of context checkpoints to create per slot (default: 8)[(more info)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/15293)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CTX_CHECKPOINTS) |
| `-ctxcp, --ctx-checkpoints, --swa-checkpoints N` | max number of context checkpoints to create per slot (default: 32)[(more info)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/15293)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CTX_CHECKPOINTS) |
| `-cpent, --checkpoint-every-n-tokens N` | create a checkpoint every n tokens during prefill (processing), -1 to disable (default: 8192)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CHECKPOINT_EVERY_NT) |
| `-cram, --cache-ram N` | set the maximum cache size in MiB (default: 8192, -1 - no limit, 0 - disable)[(more info)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/16391)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CACHE_RAM) |
| `--context-shift, --no-context-shift` | whether to use context shift on infinite text generation (default: disabled)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CONTEXT_SHIFT) |
| `-sys, --system-prompt PROMPT` | system prompt to use with model (if applicable, depending on chat template) |
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| `--chat-template-kwargs STRING` | sets additional params for the json template parser, must be a valid json object string, e.g. '{"key1":"value1","key2":"value2"}'<br/>(env: LLAMA_CHAT_TEMPLATE_KWARGS) |
| `--jinja, --no-jinja` | whether to use jinja template engine for chat (default: enabled)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_JINJA) |
| `--reasoning-format FORMAT` | controls whether thought tags are allowed and/or extracted from the response, and in which format they're returned; one of:<br/>- none: leaves thoughts unparsed in `message.content`<br/>- deepseek: puts thoughts in `message.reasoning_content`<br/>- deepseek-legacy: keeps `<think>` tags in `message.content` while also populating `message.reasoning_content`<br/>(default: auto)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_THINK) |
| `--reasoning-budget N` | controls the amount of thinking allowed; currently only one of: -1 for unrestricted thinking budget, or 0 to disable thinking (default: -1)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_THINK_BUDGET) |
| `-rea, --reasoning [on\|off\|auto]` | Use reasoning/thinking in the chat ('on', 'off', or 'auto', default: 'auto' (detect from template))<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_REASONING) |
| `--reasoning-budget N` | token budget for thinking: -1 for unrestricted, 0 for immediate end, N>0 for token budget (default: -1)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_THINK_BUDGET) |
| `--reasoning-budget-message MESSAGE` | message injected before the end-of-thinking tag when reasoning budget is exhausted (default: none)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_THINK_BUDGET_MESSAGE) |
| `--chat-template JINJA_TEMPLATE` | set custom jinja chat template (default: template taken from model's metadata)<br/>if suffix/prefix are specified, template will be disabled<br/>only commonly used templates are accepted (unless --jinja is set before this flag):<br/>list of built-in templates:<br/>bailing, bailing-think, bailing2, chatglm3, chatglm4, chatml, command-r, deepseek, deepseek2, deepseek3, exaone-moe, exaone3, exaone4, falcon3, gemma, gigachat, glmedge, gpt-oss, granite, grok-2, hunyuan-dense, hunyuan-moe, kimi-k2, llama2, llama2-sys, llama2-sys-bos, llama2-sys-strip, llama3, llama4, megrez, minicpm, mistral-v1, mistral-v3, mistral-v3-tekken, mistral-v7, mistral-v7-tekken, monarch, openchat, orion, pangu-embedded, phi3, phi4, rwkv-world, seed_oss, smolvlm, solar-open, vicuna, vicuna-orca, yandex, zephyr<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CHAT_TEMPLATE) |
| `--chat-template-file JINJA_TEMPLATE_FILE` | set custom jinja chat template file (default: template taken from model's metadata)<br/>if suffix/prefix are specified, template will be disabled<br/>only commonly used templates are accepted (unless --jinja is set before this flag):<br/>list of built-in templates:<br/>bailing, bailing-think, bailing2, chatglm3, chatglm4, chatml, command-r, deepseek, deepseek2, deepseek3, exaone-moe, exaone3, exaone4, falcon3, gemma, gigachat, glmedge, gpt-oss, granite, grok-2, hunyuan-dense, hunyuan-moe, kimi-k2, llama2, llama2-sys, llama2-sys-bos, llama2-sys-strip, llama3, llama4, megrez, minicpm, mistral-v1, mistral-v3, mistral-v3-tekken, mistral-v7, mistral-v7-tekken, monarch, openchat, orion, pangu-embedded, phi3, phi4, rwkv-world, seed_oss, smolvlm, solar-open, vicuna, vicuna-orca, yandex, zephyr<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CHAT_TEMPLATE_FILE) |
| `--skip-chat-parsing, --no-skip-chat-parsing` | force a pure content parser, even if a Jinja template is specified; model will output everything in the content section, including any reasoning and/or tool calls (default: disabled)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_SKIP_CHAT_PARSING) |
| `--simple-io` | use basic IO for better compatibility in subprocesses and limited consoles |
| `--draft, --draft-n, --draft-max N` | number of tokens to draft for speculative decoding (default: 16)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_DRAFT_MAX) |
| `--draft-min, --draft-n-min N` | minimum number of draft tokens to use for speculative decoding (default: 0)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_DRAFT_MIN) |

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| `-ctv, --cache-type-v TYPE` | KV cache data type for V<br/>allowed values: f32, f16, bf16, q8_0, q4_0, q4_1, iq4_nl, q5_0, q5_1<br/>(default: f16)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CACHE_TYPE_V) |
| `-dt, --defrag-thold N` | KV cache defragmentation threshold (DEPRECATED)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_DEFRAG_THOLD) |
| `-np, --parallel N` | number of parallel sequences to decode (default: 1)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_N_PARALLEL) |
| `--mlock` | force system to keep model in RAM rather than swapping or compressing<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_MLOCK) |
| `--mmap, --no-mmap` | whether to memory-map model. (if mmap disabled, slower load but may reduce pageouts if not using mlock) (default: enabled)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_MMAP) |
| `-dio, --direct-io, -ndio, --no-direct-io` | use DirectIO if available. (default: disabled)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_DIO) |
| `--mlock` | DEPRECATED: force system to keep model in RAM rather than swapping or compressing<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_MLOCK) |
| `--mmap, --no-mmap` | DEPRECATED: whether to memory-map model. (if mmap disabled, slower load but may reduce pageouts if not using mlock)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_MMAP) |
| `-dio, --direct-io, -ndio, --no-direct-io` | DEPRECATED: use DirectIO if available<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_DIO) |
| `-lm, --load-mode MODE` | model loading mode (default: mmap)<br/>- mlock: force system to keep model in RAM rather than swapping or compressing.<br/>- mmap: memory-map model. (if mmap disabled, slower load but may reduce pageouts if not using mlock)<br/>- dio: use DirectIO if available.<br/><br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_LOAD_MODE) |
| `--numa TYPE` | attempt optimizations that help on some NUMA systems<br/>- distribute: spread execution evenly over all nodes<br/>- isolate: only spawn threads on CPUs on the node that execution started on<br/>- numactl: use the CPU map provided by numactl<br/>if run without this previously, it is recommended to drop the system page cache before using this<br/>see https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues/1437<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_NUMA) |
| `-dev, --device <dev1,dev2,..>` | comma-separated list of devices to use for offloading (none = don't offload)<br/>use --list-devices to see a list of available devices<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_DEVICE) |
| `--list-devices` | print list of available devices and exit |
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| `-gaw, --grp-attn-w N` | group-attention width (default: 512)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_GRP_ATTN_W) |
| `--jinja, --no-jinja` | whether to use jinja template engine for chat (default: disabled)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_JINJA) |
| `--reasoning-format FORMAT` | controls whether thought tags are allowed and/or extracted from the response, and in which format they're returned; one of:<br/>- none: leaves thoughts unparsed in `message.content`<br/>- deepseek: puts thoughts in `message.reasoning_content`<br/>- deepseek-legacy: keeps `<think>` tags in `message.content` while also populating `message.reasoning_content`<br/>(default: auto)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_THINK) |
| `--reasoning-budget N` | controls the amount of thinking allowed; currently only one of: -1 for unrestricted thinking budget, or 0 to disable thinking (default: -1)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_THINK_BUDGET) |
| `-rea, --reasoning [on\|off\|auto]` | Use reasoning/thinking in the chat ('on', 'off', or 'auto', default: 'auto' (detect from template))<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_REASONING) |
| `--reasoning-budget N` | token budget for thinking: -1 for unrestricted, 0 for immediate end, N>0 for token budget (default: -1)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_THINK_BUDGET) |
| `--reasoning-budget-message MESSAGE` | message injected before the end-of-thinking tag when reasoning budget is exhausted (default: none)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_THINK_BUDGET_MESSAGE) |
| `--chat-template JINJA_TEMPLATE` | set custom jinja chat template (default: template taken from model's metadata)<br/>if suffix/prefix are specified, template will be disabled<br/>only commonly used templates are accepted (unless --jinja is set before this flag):<br/>list of built-in templates:<br/>bailing, bailing-think, bailing2, chatglm3, chatglm4, chatml, command-r, deepseek, deepseek2, deepseek3, exaone-moe, exaone3, exaone4, falcon3, gemma, gigachat, glmedge, gpt-oss, granite, grok-2, hunyuan-dense, hunyuan-moe, kimi-k2, llama2, llama2-sys, llama2-sys-bos, llama2-sys-strip, llama3, llama4, megrez, minicpm, mistral-v1, mistral-v3, mistral-v3-tekken, mistral-v7, mistral-v7-tekken, monarch, openchat, orion, pangu-embedded, phi3, phi4, rwkv-world, seed_oss, smolvlm, solar-open, vicuna, vicuna-orca, yandex, zephyr<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CHAT_TEMPLATE) |
| `--chat-template-file JINJA_TEMPLATE_FILE` | set custom jinja chat template file (default: template taken from model's metadata)<br/>if suffix/prefix are specified, template will be disabled<br/>only commonly used templates are accepted (unless --jinja is set before this flag):<br/>list of built-in templates:<br/>bailing, bailing-think, bailing2, chatglm3, chatglm4, chatml, command-r, deepseek, deepseek2, deepseek3, exaone-moe, exaone3, exaone4, falcon3, gemma, gigachat, glmedge, gpt-oss, granite, grok-2, hunyuan-dense, hunyuan-moe, kimi-k2, llama2, llama2-sys, llama2-sys-bos, llama2-sys-strip, llama3, llama4, megrez, minicpm, mistral-v1, mistral-v3, mistral-v3-tekken, mistral-v7, mistral-v7-tekken, monarch, openchat, orion, pangu-embedded, phi3, phi4, rwkv-world, seed_oss, smolvlm, solar-open, vicuna, vicuna-orca, yandex, zephyr<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CHAT_TEMPLATE_FILE) |
| `--skip-chat-parsing, --no-skip-chat-parsing` | force a pure content parser, even if a Jinja template is specified; model will output everything in the content section, including any reasoning and/or tool calls (default: disabled)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_SKIP_CHAT_PARSING) |
| `--simple-io` | use basic IO for better compatibility in subprocesses and limited consoles |
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| `-ctk, --cache-type-k TYPE` | KV cache data type for K<br/>allowed values: f32, f16, bf16, q8_0, q4_0, q4_1, iq4_nl, q5_0, q5_1<br/>(default: f16)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CACHE_TYPE_K) |
| `-ctv, --cache-type-v TYPE` | KV cache data type for V<br/>allowed values: f32, f16, bf16, q8_0, q4_0, q4_1, iq4_nl, q5_0, q5_1<br/>(default: f16)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CACHE_TYPE_V) |
| `-dt, --defrag-thold N` | KV cache defragmentation threshold (DEPRECATED)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_DEFRAG_THOLD) |
| `--mlock` | force system to keep model in RAM rather than swapping or compressing<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_MLOCK) |
| `--mmap, --no-mmap` | whether to memory-map model. (if mmap disabled, slower load but may reduce pageouts if not using mlock) (default: enabled)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_MMAP) |
| `-dio, --direct-io, -ndio, --no-direct-io` | use DirectIO if available. (default: disabled)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_DIO) |
| `--mlock` | DEPRECATED: force system to keep model in RAM rather than swapping or compressing<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_MLOCK) |
| `--mmap, --no-mmap` | DEPRECATED: whether to memory-map model. (if mmap disabled, slower load but may reduce pageouts if not using mlock)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_MMAP) |
| `-dio, --direct-io, -ndio, --no-direct-io` | DEPRECATED: use DirectIO if available<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_DIO) |
| `-lm, --load-mode MODE` | model loading mode (default: mmap)<br/>- mlock: force system to keep model in RAM rather than swapping or compressing.<br/>- mmap: memory-map model. (if mmap disabled, slower load but may reduce pageouts if not using mlock)<br/>- dio: use DirectIO if available.<br/><br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_LOAD_MODE) |
| `--numa TYPE` | attempt optimizations that help on some NUMA systems<br/>- distribute: spread execution evenly over all nodes<br/>- isolate: only spawn threads on CPUs on the node that execution started on<br/>- numactl: use the CPU map provided by numactl<br/>if run without this previously, it is recommended to drop the system page cache before using this<br/>see https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues/1437<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_NUMA) |
| `-dev, --device <dev1,dev2,..>` | comma-separated list of devices to use for offloading (none = don't offload)<br/>use --list-devices to see a list of available devices<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_DEVICE) |
| `--list-devices` | print list of available devices and exit |
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| -------- | ----------- |
| `-lcs, --lookup-cache-static FNAME` | path to static lookup cache to use for lookup decoding (not updated by generation) |
| `-lcd, --lookup-cache-dynamic FNAME` | path to dynamic lookup cache to use for lookup decoding (updated by generation) |
| `--ctx-checkpoints, --swa-checkpoints N` | max number of context checkpoints to create per slot (default: 8)[(more info)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/15293)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CTX_CHECKPOINTS) |
| `-ctxcp, --ctx-checkpoints, --swa-checkpoints N` | max number of context checkpoints to create per slot (default: 32)[(more info)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/15293)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CTX_CHECKPOINTS) |
| `-cpent, --checkpoint-every-n-tokens N` | create a checkpoint every n tokens during prefill (processing), -1 to disable (default: 8192)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CHECKPOINT_EVERY_NT) |
| `-cram, --cache-ram N` | set the maximum cache size in MiB (default: 8192, -1 - no limit, 0 - disable)[(more info)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/16391)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CACHE_RAM) |
| `-kvu, --kv-unified, -no-kvu, --no-kv-unified` | use single unified KV buffer shared across all sequences (default: enabled if number of slots is auto)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_KV_UNIFIED) |
| `--context-shift, --no-context-shift` | whether to use context shift on infinite text generation (default: disabled)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CONTEXT_SHIFT) |
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| `--api-prefix PREFIX` | prefix path the server serves from, without the trailing slash (default: )<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_API_PREFIX) |
| `--webui-config JSON` | JSON that provides default WebUI settings (overrides WebUI defaults)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_WEBUI_CONFIG) |
| `--webui-config-file PATH` | JSON file that provides default WebUI settings (overrides WebUI defaults)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_WEBUI_CONFIG_FILE) |
| `--webui-mcp-proxy, --no-webui-mcp-proxy` | experimental: whether to enable MCP CORS proxy - do not enable in untrusted environments (default: disabled)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_WEBUI_MCP_PROXY) |
| `--webui, --no-webui` | whether to enable the Web UI (default: enabled)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_WEBUI) |
| `--embedding, --embeddings` | restrict to only support embedding use case; use only with dedicated embedding models (default: disabled)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_EMBEDDINGS) |
| `--rerank, --reranking` | enable reranking endpoint on server (default: disabled)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_RERANKING) |
@ -215,11 +218,12 @@ For the full list of features, please refer to [server's changelog](https://gith
| `--models-autoload, --no-models-autoload` | for router server, whether to automatically load models (default: enabled)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_MODELS_AUTOLOAD) |
| `--jinja, --no-jinja` | whether to use jinja template engine for chat (default: enabled)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_JINJA) |
| `--reasoning-format FORMAT` | controls whether thought tags are allowed and/or extracted from the response, and in which format they're returned; one of:<br/>- none: leaves thoughts unparsed in `message.content`<br/>- deepseek: puts thoughts in `message.reasoning_content`<br/>- deepseek-legacy: keeps `<think>` tags in `message.content` while also populating `message.reasoning_content`<br/>(default: auto)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_THINK) |
| `-rea, --resoning [on\|off\|auto]` | Use reasoning/thinking in the chat ('on', 'off', or 'auto', default: 'auto' (detect from template))<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_REASONING) |
| `-rea, --reasoning [on\|off\|auto]` | Use reasoning/thinking in the chat ('on', 'off', or 'auto', default: 'auto' (detect from template))<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_REASONING) |
| `--reasoning-budget N` | token budget for thinking: -1 for unrestricted, 0 for immediate end, N>0 for token budget (default: -1)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_THINK_BUDGET) |
| `--reasoning-budget-message MESSAGE` | message injected before the end-of-thinking tag when reasoning budget is exhausted (default: none)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_THINK_BUDGET_MESSAGE) |
| `--chat-template JINJA_TEMPLATE` | set custom jinja chat template (default: template taken from model's metadata)<br/>if suffix/prefix are specified, template will be disabled<br/>only commonly used templates are accepted (unless --jinja is set before this flag):<br/>list of built-in templates:<br/>bailing, bailing-think, bailing2, chatglm3, chatglm4, chatml, command-r, deepseek, deepseek2, deepseek3, exaone-moe, exaone3, exaone4, falcon3, gemma, gigachat, glmedge, gpt-oss, granite, grok-2, hunyuan-dense, hunyuan-moe, kimi-k2, llama2, llama2-sys, llama2-sys-bos, llama2-sys-strip, llama3, llama4, megrez, minicpm, mistral-v1, mistral-v3, mistral-v3-tekken, mistral-v7, mistral-v7-tekken, monarch, openchat, orion, pangu-embedded, phi3, phi4, rwkv-world, seed_oss, smolvlm, solar-open, vicuna, vicuna-orca, yandex, zephyr<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CHAT_TEMPLATE) |
| `--chat-template-file JINJA_TEMPLATE_FILE` | set custom jinja chat template file (default: template taken from model's metadata)<br/>if suffix/prefix are specified, template will be disabled<br/>only commonly used templates are accepted (unless --jinja is set before this flag):<br/>list of built-in templates:<br/>bailing, bailing-think, bailing2, chatglm3, chatglm4, chatml, command-r, deepseek, deepseek2, deepseek3, exaone-moe, exaone3, exaone4, falcon3, gemma, gigachat, glmedge, gpt-oss, granite, grok-2, hunyuan-dense, hunyuan-moe, kimi-k2, llama2, llama2-sys, llama2-sys-bos, llama2-sys-strip, llama3, llama4, megrez, minicpm, mistral-v1, mistral-v3, mistral-v3-tekken, mistral-v7, mistral-v7-tekken, monarch, openchat, orion, pangu-embedded, phi3, phi4, rwkv-world, seed_oss, smolvlm, solar-open, vicuna, vicuna-orca, yandex, zephyr<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_CHAT_TEMPLATE_FILE) |
| `--skip-chat-parsing, --no-skip-chat-parsing` | force a pure content parser, even if a Jinja template is specified; model will output everything in the content section, including any reasoning and/or tool calls (default: disabled)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_SKIP_CHAT_PARSING) |
| `--prefill-assistant, --no-prefill-assistant` | whether to prefill the assistant's response if the last message is an assistant message (default: prefill enabled)<br/>when this flag is set, if the last message is an assistant message then it will be treated as a full message and not prefilled<br/><br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_PREFILL_ASSISTANT) |
| `-sps, --slot-prompt-similarity SIMILARITY` | how much the prompt of a request must match the prompt of a slot in order to use that slot (default: 0.10, 0.0 = disabled) |
| `--lora-init-without-apply` | load LoRA adapters without applying them (apply later via POST /lora-adapters) (default: disabled) |