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+"""Tokenizer wrapper for Lucidia."""
+
+
+class TokenizerWrapper:
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer):
+        self.tokenizer = tokenizer
+
+    def encode(self, text):
+        """Encode text into token ids (placeholder)."""
+        raise NotImplementedError("Encode method not implemented")
+
+    def decode(self, token_ids):
+        """Decode token ids into text (placeholder)."""
+        raise NotImplementedError("Decode method not implemented")