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Glossary

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Structured output

A tool result returned as typed data with a declared schema, rather than as prose the model has to parse.

In detail.

A tool that returns a table of numbers with named columns lets the model compute on them. A tool that returns the same numbers inside a sentence forces it to extract them first, which it usually does correctly and occasionally does not.

The gain is largest exactly where the cost of an error is highest: currency amounts, date ranges, and identifiers that will be passed into a later write call.