diff --git a/llama_cpp/llama.py b/llama_cpp/llama.py
index 1241f81e2..848706a90 100644
--- a/llama_cpp/llama.py
+++ b/llama_cpp/llama.py
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ class Llama:
     def __init__(
         self,
         model_path: str,
+        clip_model_path: Optional[str] = None,
         *,
         # Model Params
         n_gpu_layers: Union[int, Literal["auto", "all"]] = "auto",
@@ -608,6 +609,17 @@ def __init__(
 
         if self.verbose:
             print(f"Model metadata: {self.metadata}", file=sys.stderr)
+        
+        if clip_model_path is not None:
+            if self.chat_handler is not None and self.verbose:
+                print("Warning: Both `chat_handler` and `clip_model_path` are not null. Chat handler will be overwritten.", flush = True)
+
+            self.chat_handler = llama_chat_format.GenericMTMDChatHandler(
+                gguf_metadata = self.metadata,
+                clip_model_path = clip_model_path,
+                model_arch = None,
+                verbose = self.verbose
+            )
 
         eos_token_id = self.token_eos()
         bos_token_id = self.token_bos()
diff --git a/llama_cpp/llama_chat_format.py b/llama_cpp/llama_chat_format.py
index a0d8d25db..ab5e438d3 100644
--- a/llama_cpp/llama_chat_format.py
+++ b/llama_cpp/llama_chat_format.py
@@ -2887,10 +2887,14 @@ def __init__(
             raise ValueError(f"{self.log_prefix}(__init__): Clip model path does not exist: {clip_model_path}")
 
         # Pre-compile Jinja template
+        if not hasattr(self, "chat_format") or self.chat_format is None:
+            self.chat_format = self.CHAT_FORMAT
+
+        self._chat_format_parser_tags = []
         self.chat_template = ImmutableSandboxedEnvironment(
             trim_blocks=True,
             lstrip_blocks=True,
-        ).from_string(self.CHAT_FORMAT)
+        ).from_string(self.chat_format)
 
         self._exit_stack = ExitStack()
 
@@ -3116,6 +3120,13 @@ def _process_mtmd_prompt(
             tool_choice=tool_choice,
             **getattr(self, 'extra_template_arguments', {})
         )
+        
+        for tag in self._chat_format_parser_tags:
+            if tag not in text:
+                continue
+
+            text = text.replace(tag, media_marker)
+
         # Replace image_url by media_marker in text
         for item in media_items:
             text = text.replace(item["url"], media_marker)
@@ -3827,6 +3838,42 @@ def from_pretrained(
             **kwargs,
         )
 
+class GenericMTMDChatHandler(MTMDChatHandler):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        gguf_metadata: Dict[str, Any],
+        clip_model_path: str,
+        model_arch: Optional[str] = None,
+        verbose: bool = True,
+        **kwargs
+    ) -> None:
+        self.model_metadata = gguf_metadata
+
+        self.chat_format = self.model_metadata.get("tokenizer.chat_template", None)
+        self.arch = self.model_metadata.get("general.architecture", None) if model_arch is None else model_arch
+
+        if verbose:
+            print(f"Got chat template from model:\n```jinja\n{self.chat_format}\n```", flush = True)
+        
+        if self.arch is None:
+            if verbose:
+                print("Unknown model architecture. Will use general/most-common tags.")
+            
+            self.arch = "unknown"
+
+        if self.chat_format is None:
+            raise ValueError("Failed to get model chat template automatically.")
+        
+        super().__init__(clip_model_path = clip_model_path, verbose = verbose, **kwargs)
+        
+        if self.arch in ["unknown", "qwen3vl", "qwen35moe", "qwen35"]:
+            self._chat_format_parser_tags += ["<|image_pad|>", "<|audio_pad|>", "<|video_pad|>"]
+        elif self.arch in ["gemma4"]:
+            self._chat_format_parser_tags += ["<|image|>", "<|audio|>", "<|video|>"]
+        elif self.arch in ["mistral3", "mistral4", "deepseek2"]:
+            self._chat_format_parser_tags += ["[IMG]"]
+        elif verbose:
+            print("Warning: Could not determine chat format parser tags.", flush = True)
 
 class Llava15ChatHandler(MTMDChatHandler):
     CHAT_FORMAT = (