diff --git a/tests/test_birr_outputs.py b/tests/test_birr_outputs.py
index 96f8b26..bf720ea 100644
--- a/tests/test_birr_outputs.py
+++ b/tests/test_birr_outputs.py
@@ -128,4 +128,47 @@ class TestBirrTokenization(unittest.TestCase):
         print(end_token_len - start_token_len + 1, " max image tokens")
 
         print(compute_number_of_image_tokens(1024, 1024))
-        
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+        
+    def testBirrChatTemplate(self):
+        import yaml
+        import json
+        import os
+
+        from birr.tokenization import ModelTokenizer
+        from birr.core.config import FormatConfig, LLMModelConfig
+        from birr.batch_inference.data_models import RawInputItem
+
+        from pdelfin.birrpipeline import build_page_query
+
+        TEST_INSTANCES = [json.dumps(build_page_query(os.path.join(
+            os.path.dirname(__file__),
+            "gnarly_pdfs",
+            "edgar.pdf"
+        ), "test.pdf", 1, 1024, 4096)),
+        ]
+
+        TEST_INSTANCES = [
+            RawInputItem.from_message_dicts(i, json.loads(json_string)["chat_messages"]).messages
+            for i, json_string in enumerate(TEST_INSTANCES)
+        ]
+
+        MODEL_NAME = "Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B"
+
+        CONFIG_FILE = "/home/ubuntu/mise/birr/configs/inference/qwen2-vl-test.yaml"
+
+
+        with open(CONFIG_FILE, "r")  as f:
+            file_contents = f.read()
+            config_dict = yaml.safe_load(file_contents)
+
+        model_config = LLMModelConfig(name_or_path=MODEL_NAME)
+        format_config = FormatConfig(**config_dict.get("format", {}))
+
+        tokenizer = ModelTokenizer(model_config, format_config)
+
+        formatted = tokenizer.batch_format(TEST_INSTANCES)
+
+        print(formatted)
+
+        for formatted_instance in formatted:
+            print(f"========================================\n{formatted_instance}\n========================================")
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