diff --git a/convert/convert_test.go b/convert/convert_test.go
index f71ff8cd..9eb1632f 100644
--- a/convert/convert_test.go
+++ b/convert/convert_test.go
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
 	os.Exit(m.Run())
 }
 
-func TestConvertFull(t *testing.T) {
+func TestConvertModel(t *testing.T) {
 	cases := []string{
 		"Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct",
 		"Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct",
diff --git a/convert/tokenizer.go b/convert/tokenizer.go
index 653df6d2..14d6ba66 100644
--- a/convert/tokenizer.go
+++ b/convert/tokenizer.go
@@ -100,8 +100,21 @@ func parseTokenizer(fsys fs.FS, specialTokenTypes []string) (*Tokenizer, error)
 		}
 
 		if template, ok := p["chat_template"]; ok {
-			if err := json.Unmarshal(template, &t.Template); err != nil {
-				return nil, err
+			var s []struct {
+				Name     string `json:"name"`
+				Template string `json:"template"`
+			}
+			if err := json.Unmarshal(template, &t.Template); err == nil {
+				// noop
+			} else if err := json.Unmarshal(template, &s); err == nil {
+				for _, e := range s {
+					if e.Name == "default" {
+						t.Template = e.Template
+						break
+					}
+				}
+			} else {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid chat_template: %w", err)
 			}
 		}
 
@@ -141,7 +154,6 @@ func parseTokenizer(fsys fs.FS, specialTokenTypes []string) (*Tokenizer, error)
 }
 
 type tokenizer struct {
-	Version     string  `json:"version"`
 	AddedTokens []token `json:"added_tokens"`
 	Model       struct {
 		Type   string         `json:"type"`
@@ -239,7 +251,7 @@ func parseVocabulary(fsys fs.FS) (*Vocabulary, error) {
 		return pattern.Func(fsys)
 	}
 
-	return nil, errors.New("unknown tensor format")
+	return nil, errors.New("unknown tokenizer format")
 }
 
 type SpecialVocabulary struct {
diff --git a/convert/tokenizer_test.go b/convert/tokenizer_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d9550e09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/convert/tokenizer_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,208 @@
+package convert
+
+import (
+	"io"
+	"io/fs"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/google/go-cmp/cmp"
+)
+
+func createTokenizerFS(t *testing.T, dir string, files map[string]io.Reader) fs.FS {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	for k, v := range files {
+		if err := func() error {
+			f, err := os.Create(filepath.Join(dir, k))
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			defer f.Close()
+
+			if _, err := io.Copy(f, v); err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+
+			return nil
+		}(); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	return os.DirFS(dir)
+}
+
+func TestParseTokenizer(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		name              string
+		fsys              fs.FS
+		specialTokenTypes []string
+		want              *Tokenizer
+	}{
+		{
+			name: "string chat template",
+			fsys: createTokenizerFS(t, t.TempDir(), map[string]io.Reader{
+				"tokenizer.json": strings.NewReader(`{}`),
+				"tokenizer_config.json": strings.NewReader(`{
+					"chat_template": "<default template>"
+				}`),
+			}),
+			want: &Tokenizer{
+				Vocabulary: &Vocabulary{Model: "gpt2"},
+				Pre:        "default",
+				Template:   "<default template>",
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "list chat template",
+			fsys: createTokenizerFS(t, t.TempDir(), map[string]io.Reader{
+				"tokenizer.json": strings.NewReader(`{}`),
+				"tokenizer_config.json": strings.NewReader(`{
+					"chat_template": [
+						{
+							"name": "default",
+							"template": "<default template>"
+						},
+						{
+							"name": "tools",
+							"template": "<tools template>"
+						}
+					]
+				}`),
+			}),
+			want: &Tokenizer{
+				Vocabulary: &Vocabulary{Model: "gpt2"},
+				Pre:        "default",
+				Template:   "<default template>",
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "added tokens",
+			fsys: createTokenizerFS(t, t.TempDir(), map[string]io.Reader{
+				"tokenizer.json": strings.NewReader(`{
+					"added_tokens": [
+						{
+							"id": 999,
+							"content": "<unused999>",
+							"special": false
+						}
+					]
+				}`),
+			}),
+			want: &Tokenizer{
+				Vocabulary: &Vocabulary{
+					Model:  "gpt2",
+					Tokens: []string{"<unused999>"},
+					Scores: []float32{999},
+					Types:  []int32{4},
+				},
+				Pre: "default",
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "added tokens overlap vocab",
+			fsys: createTokenizerFS(t, t.TempDir(), map[string]io.Reader{
+				"tokenizer.json": strings.NewReader(`{
+					"added_tokens": [
+						{
+							"id": 0,
+							"content": "<pad>",
+							"special": true
+						}
+					],
+					"model": {
+						"vocab": {
+							"<pad>": 0
+						}
+					}
+				}`),
+			}),
+			want: &Tokenizer{
+				Vocabulary: &Vocabulary{
+					Model:  "gpt2",
+					Tokens: []string{"<pad>"},
+					Scores: []float32{0},
+					Types:  []int32{3},
+				},
+				Pre: "default",
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "special token types",
+			fsys: createTokenizerFS(t, t.TempDir(), map[string]io.Reader{
+				"tokenizer.json": strings.NewReader(`{
+					"added_tokens": [
+						{
+							"id": 0,
+							"content": "<pad>",
+							"special": true
+						},
+						{
+							"id": 1,
+							"content": "<eos>",
+							"special": true
+						},
+						{
+							"id": 2,
+							"content": "<bos>",
+							"special": true
+						},
+						{
+							"id": 3,
+							"content": "<unk>",
+							"special": true
+						}
+					],
+					"model": {
+						"vocab": {
+							"<pad>": 0,
+							"<eos>": 1,
+							"<bos>": 2,
+							"<unk>": 3
+						}
+					}
+				}`),
+				"tokenizer_config.json": strings.NewReader(`{
+					"add_bos_token": true,
+					"add_eos_token": false,
+					"bos_token": "<bos>",
+					"eos_token": "<eos>",
+					"pad_token": "<pad>",
+					"unk_token": "<unk>"
+				}`),
+			}),
+			specialTokenTypes: []string{"pad", "eos", "bos", "unk"},
+			want: &Tokenizer{
+				Vocabulary: &Vocabulary{
+					Model:  "gpt2",
+					Tokens: []string{"<pad>", "<eos>", "<bos>", "<unk>"},
+					Scores: []float32{0, 1, 2, 3},
+					Types:  []int32{3, 3, 3, 3},
+				},
+				SpecialVocabulary: []*SpecialVocabulary{
+					{Type: "pad", Content: "<pad>", ID: 0, AddToken: false},
+					{Type: "eos", Content: "<eos>", ID: 1, AddToken: false},
+					{Type: "bos", Content: "<bos>", ID: 2, AddToken: true},
+					{Type: "unk", Content: "<unk>", ID: 3, AddToken: false},
+				},
+				Pre: "default",
+			},
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range cases {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			tokenizer, err := parseTokenizer(tt.fsys, tt.specialTokenTypes)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %v", err)
+			}
+
+			if diff := cmp.Diff(tt.want, tokenizer); diff != "" {
+				t.Errorf("unexpected tokenizer (-want +got):\n%s", diff)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}