Handbook

mechanism_compare_prose v1

Input: mechanisms (list of strings), objectives.

Updated

Output: { "scores", "rationale", "ranked" }.

Failure modes

  • TransportFailure — chat transport errors.
  • ParseFailure — assistant output not valid JSON.
  • SchemaFailure — input or output rejected vs contract schemas.
  • GatewayFailure — upstream/provider errors.

Verification

Task-internal validation and JSON schema checks per contract.json verification_policy.

Changelog

  • v1 — Maintained in catalog; see git history for semantic changes.