ollama/cmd/prompt-rendering

HuggingFace Prompt Renderer MCP Server

Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for rendering conversation messages into model-specific prompt strings using HuggingFace tokenizer chat templates.

Requirements

• uv - Fast Python package installer

Usage

MCP Server Mode

Run the MCP server over stdio for use with MCP clients:

uv run cmd/prompt-rendering/server.py --mcp

Add to your MCP client configuration (e.g., for Claude Desktop):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "huggingface-prompt-renderer": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "--directory",
        "<path-to-ollama-repo>",
        "cmd/prompt-rendering/server.py",
        "--mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

FastAPI Server Mode

Start a FastAPI server for manual HTTP testing:

# Start on default port 8000
uv run cmd/prompt-rendering/server.py --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000

# Start on custom port
uv run cmd/prompt-rendering/server.py --host 0.0.0.0 --port 9000

Endpoints

Method	Path	Description
POST	/generate-prompt	Generate prompt from messages
GET	/health	Health check

Test with curl

# Basic user message
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/generate-prompt \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

# With tools
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/generate-prompt \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "messages": [
      {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},
      {"role": "user", "content": "What is the weather?"}
    ],
    "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct",
    "tools": [{
      "type": "function",
      "function": {
        "name": "get_weather",
        "description": "Get the current weather",
        "parameters": {
          "type": "object",
          "required": ["location"],
          "properties": {
            "location": {"type": "string", "description": "The city"}
          }
        }
      }
    }]
  }'

# With tool calls
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/generate-prompt \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "messages": [
      {"role": "user", "content": "What is the weather in SF?"},
      {
        "role": "assistant",
        "tool_calls": [{
          "id": "call_1",
          "type": "function",
          "function": {
            "name": "get_weather",
            "arguments": {"location": "San Francisco"}
          }
        }]
      },
      {"role": "tool", "content": "{\"temperature\": 68}", "tool_call_id": "call_1"}
    ],
    "tools": [{
      "type": "function",
      "function": {
        "name": "get_weather",
        "parameters": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {"location": {"type": "string"}}
        }
      }
    }]
  }'

Supported Message Formats

The server supports multiple message formats:

Format	Description
OpenAI	Standard role, content, tool_calls, tool_call_id
OLMo	Adds functions and function_calls fields
DeepSeek	Tool call arguments must be JSON strings

Tool Support

Setting	Description
inject_tools_as_functions=true	Injects tools into system message as functions key (OLMo-style)
inject_tools_as_functions=false	Passes tools separately to apply_chat_template (standard transformers)

Models

The server uses HuggingFace's transformers library and supports any model with a chat template. Default: Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct

Dependencies

The script uses PEP 723 inline dependency metadata. When run with uv, dependencies are automatically installed into an isolated environment:

• fastapi - Web framework
• uvicorn - ASGI server
• transformers - HuggingFace tokenizer
• jinja2 - Template engine
• mcp - Model Context Protocol