Output Control Vocabulary

an explicit agreement about the fields, format, rules, and failure behavior of a response

“The output contract required JSON with a status field and an empty result on no match.”

a formal description of a data structure, including its fields, types, and allowed values

“The output schema required amount to be a number and currency to use a three-letter code.”

a response produced in a predictable machine-readable shape, often constrained by a schema

“Structured output returned one validated object instead of prose that needed parsing.”

the amount of detail and explanation in a response

“Set verbosity to low for the alert and high for the troubleshooting guide.”

the degree of language complexity expected of a response's reader

“A middle-school reading level made the health instructions easier to understand.”

the degree to which available evidence leaves an answer unknown, ambiguous, or unreliable

“The response separated confirmed facts from uncertainty about next quarter.”

a deliberate refusal to answer when evidence, authorization, or capability is insufficient

“The classifier used abstention when no label was supported strongly enough.”

a rule that ends generation or an agent loop once a stated state is reached

“The stop condition ended research after two independent sources confirmed each claim.”