Module Gate

Gate: Response Engineering

10 min

Check that you can guarantee response shape, validate meaning, and execute tool requests safely.

01Synthesize the guarantee ladder, validation/repair loop, and idempotent tool calling into reliable design decisions

You’ve walked the ladder and the loop. The throughline: a schema-valid output is just a well-typed claim from an unreliable, retry-prone producer of untrusted input — so the real reliability work lives in validation, bounded repair, safe fallbacks, and idempotent side effects.

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Question 1 of 3

An LLM extraction pipeline uses JSON mode and a downstream consumer expects a strict schema with specific enum fields. Outputs are syntactically valid JSON but enum values keep drifting. What's the most accurate diagnosis?

JSON mode guarantees syntax, not your schema — move up to schema-constrained decoding and validate enumsJSON mode is broken; switch back to prompt-onlyEnum drift means the model executed the wrong toolConstrained decoding caused the drift; remove the schema