diff --git a/src/user/mod.rs b/src/user/mod.rs
index 554cab9..a73954a 100644
--- a/src/user/mod.rs
+++ b/src/user/mod.rs
@@ -522,6 +522,13 @@ pub enum SubCmd {
 
 #[tokio::main]
 pub async fn main() {
+    // Initialize the Qwen tokenizer for direct token generation
+    let tokenizer_path = dirs::home_dir().unwrap_or_default()
+        .join(".consciousness/tokenizer-qwen35.json");
+    if tokenizer_path.exists() {
+        crate::agent::tokenizer::init(&tokenizer_path.to_string_lossy());
+    }
+
     let cli = CliArgs::parse();
 
     if cli.show_config {