diff --git a/public/script.js b/public/script.js
index f655d6fe1..f7c88cc6a 100644
--- a/public/script.js
+++ b/public/script.js
@@ -267,6 +267,7 @@ import { applyBrowserFixes } from './scripts/browser-fixes.js';
 import { initServerHistory } from './scripts/server-history.js';
 import { initSettingsSearch } from './scripts/setting-search.js';
 import { initBulkEdit } from './scripts/bulk-edit.js';
+import { deriveTemplatesFromChatTemplate } from './scripts/chat-cemplates.js';
 
 //exporting functions and vars for mods
 export {
@@ -1235,6 +1236,31 @@ async function getStatusTextgen() {
         const supportsTokenization = response.headers.get('x-supports-tokenization') === 'true';
         supportsTokenization ? sessionStorage.setItem(TOKENIZER_SUPPORTED_KEY, 'true') : sessionStorage.removeItem(TOKENIZER_SUPPORTED_KEY);
 
+        const supportsChatTemplate = response.headers.get('x-supports-chat-template') === 'true';
+
+        if (supportsChatTemplate) {
+            const response = await fetch('/api/backends/text-completions/chat_template', {
+                method: 'POST',
+                headers: getRequestHeaders(),
+                body: JSON.stringify({
+                    api_server: endpoint,
+                    api_type: textgen_settings.type,
+                }),
+            });
+
+            const data = await response.json();
+            if (data) {
+                const chat_template = data.chat_template;
+                console.log(`We have chat template ${chat_template.split('\n')[0]}...`);
+                const templates = await deriveTemplatesFromChatTemplate(chat_template);
+                if (templates) {
+                    const { context, instruct } = templates;
+                    selectContextPreset(context, { isAuto: true });
+                    selectInstructPreset(instruct, { isAuto: true });
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
         // We didn't get a 200 status code, but the endpoint has an explanation. Which means it DID connect, but I digress.
         if (online_status === 'no_connection' && data.response) {
             toastr.error(data.response, t`API Error`, { timeOut: 5000, preventDuplicates: true });
diff --git a/public/scripts/chat-cemplates.js b/public/scripts/chat-cemplates.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f70f9fc18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/scripts/chat-cemplates.js
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+// https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SubtleCrypto/digest
+async function digestMessage(message) {
+    const msgUint8 = new TextEncoder().encode(message); // encode as (utf-8) Uint8Array
+    const hashBuffer = await window.crypto.subtle.digest('SHA-256', msgUint8); // hash the message
+    const hashArray = Array.from(new Uint8Array(hashBuffer)); // convert buffer to byte array
+    const hashHex = hashArray
+        .map((b) => b.toString(16).padStart(2, '0'))
+        .join(''); // convert bytes to hex string
+    return hashHex;
+}
+
+// the hash can be obtained from command line e.g. via: MODEL=path_to_model; python -c "import json, hashlib, sys; print(hashlib.sha256(json.load(open('"$MODEL"/tokenizer_config.json'))['chat_template'].strip().encode()).hexdigest())"
+// note that chat templates must be trimmed to match the llama.cpp metadata value
+const derivations = {
+    // Meta
+    '93c0e9aa3629bbd77e68dbc0f5621f6e6b23aa8d74b932595cdb8d64684526d7': {
+        // Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
+        // Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct
+        context: 'Llama 3 Instruct',
+        instruct: 'Llama 3 Instruct',
+    },
+    'd82792f95932f1c9cef5c4bd992f171225e3bf8c7b609b4557c9e1ec96be819f': {
+        // Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct
+        // Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct
+        context: 'Llama 3 Instruct',
+        instruct: 'Llama 3 Instruct',
+    },
+
+    // Mistral
+    // Mistral Reference: https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-common
+    'cafb64e0e9e5fd2503054b3479593fae39cbdfd52338ce8af9bb4664a8eb05bd': {
+        // Mistral-Small-Instruct-2409
+        // Mistral-Large-Instruct-2407
+        context: 'Mistral V2 & V3',
+        instruct: 'Mistral V2 & V3',
+    },
+    '3c4ad5fa60dd8c7ccdf82fa4225864c903e107728fcaf859fa6052cb80c92ee9': {
+        // Mistral-Large-Instruct-2411
+        context: 'Mistral V7', // https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Large-Instruct-2411
+        instruct: 'Mistral V7',
+    },
+    'e7deee034838db2bfc7487788a3013d8a307ab69f72f3c54a85f06fd76007d4e': {
+        // Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407
+        context: 'Mistral V3-Tekken',
+        instruct: 'Mistral V3-Tekken',
+    },
+    '26a59556925c987317ce5291811ba3b7f32ec4c647c400c6cc7e3a9993007ba7': {
+        // Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3
+        context: 'Mistral V2 & V3',
+        instruct: 'Mistral V2 & V3',
+    },
+
+    // Gemma
+    'ecd6ae513fe103f0eb62e8ab5bfa8d0fe45c1074fa398b089c93a7e70c15cfd6': {
+        // gemma-2-9b-it
+        // gemma-2-27b-it
+        context: 'Gemma 2',
+        instruct: 'Gemma 2',
+    },
+
+    // Cohere
+    '3b54f5c219ae1caa5c0bb2cdc7c001863ca6807cf888e4240e8739fa7eb9e02e': {
+        // command-r-08-2024
+        context: 'Command R',
+        instruct: 'Command R',
+    },
+};
+
+export async function deriveTemplatesFromChatTemplate(chat_template) {
+    const hash = await digestMessage(chat_template);
+    if (hash in derivations) {
+        return derivations[hash];
+    }
+    console.log(`Unknown chat template hash: ${hash}`);
+    return null;
+}
diff --git a/src/endpoints/backends/text-completions.js b/src/endpoints/backends/text-completions.js
index 9a3dac2ce..1c5bdb75a 100644
--- a/src/endpoints/backends/text-completions.js
+++ b/src/endpoints/backends/text-completions.js
@@ -218,6 +218,18 @@ router.post('/status', jsonParser, async function (request, response) {
             } catch (error) {
                 console.error(`Failed to get TabbyAPI model info: ${error}`);
             }
+        } else if (apiType == TEXTGEN_TYPES.KOBOLDCPP) {
+            try {
+                const chatTemplateUrl = baseUrl + '/api/extra/chat_template';
+                const chatTemplateReply = await fetch(chatTemplateUrl);
+                if (chatTemplateReply.ok) {
+                    response.setHeader('x-supports-chat-template', 'true');
+                } else {
+                    console.log(`ct res = ${JSON.stringify(chatTemplateReply)}`);
+                }
+            } catch (error) {
+                console.error(`Failed to fetch chat template info: ${error}`);
+            }
         }
 
         return response.send({ result, data: data.data });
@@ -227,6 +239,34 @@ router.post('/status', jsonParser, async function (request, response) {
     }
 });
 
+router.post('/chat_template', jsonParser, async function (request, response) {
+    if (!request.body.api_server) return response.sendStatus(400);
+
+    try {
+        const baseUrl = trimV1(request.body.api_server);
+        const args = {
+            headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+        };
+
+        setAdditionalHeaders(request, args, baseUrl);
+
+        const chatTemplateUrl = baseUrl + '/api/extra/chat_template';
+        const chatTemplateReply = await fetch(chatTemplateUrl, args);
+
+        if (!chatTemplateReply.ok) {
+            console.log('Chat template endpoint is offline.');
+            return response.status(400);
+        }
+
+        /** @type {any} */
+        const chatTemplate = await chatTemplateReply.json();
+        return response.send(chatTemplate);
+    } catch (error) {
+        console.error(error);
+        return response.status(500);
+    }
+});
+
 router.post('/generate', jsonParser, async function (request, response) {
     if (!request.body) return response.sendStatus(400);