diff --git a/unsloth/tokenizer_utils.py b/unsloth/tokenizer_utils.py
index c445879df7..03771d1fbe 100644
--- a/unsloth/tokenizer_utils.py
+++ b/unsloth/tokenizer_utils.py
@@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ def load_correct_tokenizer(
     # Ignore mistral type models since they don't have an add_generation_prompt
     if any(
         s in str(getattr(tokenizer, "name_or_path", "")).lower()
-        for s in ["mistral", "qwen3guard"]
+        for s in ["mistral", "qwen3guard", "hermes"]
     ):
         chat_template = old_chat_template