diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8ff7a89..b28cbb5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ completion_request = ChatCompletionRequest(
         ],
 )
 
+tokens = tokenizer.encode_chat_completion(completion_request).tokens
+
 out_tokens, _ = generate([tokens], model, max_tokens=64, temperature=0.0, eos_id=tokenizer.instruct_tokenizer.tokenizer.eos_id)
 result = tokenizer.instruct_tokenizer.tokenizer.decode(out_tokens[0])