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The ChatML (Chat Markup Language) Handbook

Preface
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Part I — Foundations of ChatML
Chapter 1: The Evolution of Structured Prompting
Chapter 2: Anatomy of a ChatML Message
Chapter 3: Roles and Responsibilities
Chapter 4: Context and Continuity
Chapter 5: Design Principles of ChatML
Part II — Engineering with ChatML
Chapter 6: Building a ChatML Pipeline
Chapter 7: Rendering with Templates
Chapter 8: Tool Invocation and Function Binding
Chapter 9: Memory Persistence Layer
Chapter 10: Testing and Observability
Part III — The Support Bot Project
Chapter 11: Building a Support Bot Using ChatML
Part IV – Appendices (Ecosystem & Reference)
Appendix A: ChatML Syntax Reference
Appendix B: Integration Ecosystem
Appendix C: Template and Snippet Library
Appendix D: Glossary and Design Checklist
The End

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Keywords

ChatML, LLMs, Prompt Engineering, LangChain, LlamaIndex

To my family — whose love, patience, and faith make every creation possible. This book is as much theirs as it is mine.

The ChatML Handbook

Part I — Foundations of ChatML