diff --git a/stacks/vllm/compose.yaml b/stacks/vllm/compose.yaml
index 28ec332..1a0334d 100644
--- a/stacks/vllm/compose.yaml
+++ b/stacks/vllm/compose.yaml
@@ -210,7 +210,6 @@ services:
       - "${PHI4_PORT}:8000"
     volumes:
       - /tank/aimodels/huggingface:/hfcache
-      - /opt/docker/conf/vllm/phi4-chat-template.jinja:/config/phi4-chat-template.jinja:ro
     environment:
       - HF_HOME=/hfcache
       - HF_HUB_CACHE=/hfcache/hub
@@ -238,10 +237,6 @@ services:
       # FP8 KV cache — halves KV memory at 128K ctx on Ada (cc 8.9); near-lossless.
       - --kv-cache-dtype
       - ${PHI4_KV_CACHE_DTYPE}
-      # Ollama-matching scaffold (drops the system-turn <|end|>) so vLLM reproduces
-      # brokkr's R15 canonical baseline. See conf/phi4-chat-template.jinja.
-      - --chat-template
-      - /config/phi4-chat-template.jinja
     deploy:
       resources:
         reservations:
diff --git a/stacks/vllm/conf/phi4-chat-template.jinja b/stacks/vllm/conf/phi4-chat-template.jinja
deleted file mode 100644
index 31b930b..0000000
--- a/stacks/vllm/conf/phi4-chat-template.jinja
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-{#-
-  Phi-4-mini chat template — OLLAMA-MATCHING variant.
-
-  Why this exists: the official HF tokenizer template emits <|end|> after the
-  SYSTEM turn; Ollama's phi4 template does NOT (its system-block <|end|> is only
-  in the tools branch). That single boundary token regressed brokkr's R15 P02
-  admission eval on vLLM vs the Ollama-measured canonical (type macro-F1 -33pp)
-  while valid_format held at 1.0. Operator chose (2026-06-04) to make vLLM match
-  Ollama's leaner scaffold globally so baseline == production.
-
-  Renders (system + user, add_generation_prompt):
-    <|system|>{sys}<|user|>{usr}<|end|><|assistant|>
-  i.e. NO <|end|> after the system turn (the only delta from official).
--#}
-{%- for message in messages -%}
-{%- if message['role'] == 'system' -%}
-{{- '<|system|>' + message['content'] -}}
-{%- else -%}
-{{- '<|' + message['role'] + '|>' + message['content'] + '<|end|>' -}}
-{%- endif -%}
-{%- endfor -%}
-{%- if add_generation_prompt -%}
-{{- '<|assistant|>' -}}
-{%- endif -%}