**NOTE**: There are two chat template systems in SGLang project. This document is about setting a custom chat template for the OpenAI-compatible API server (defined at [conversation.py](https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/blob/main/python/sglang/srt/conversation.py)). It is NOT related to the chat template used in the SGLang language frontend (defined at [chat_template.py](https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/blob/main/python/sglang/lang/chat_template.py)).