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Retrospective edition / TEXT

Treat text generation as a typed product contract

Define instructions, user input, expected output, terminal states, and retention instead of exposing a raw completion throughout the app.

01 / DECIDE

Architecture decision

Use it for any feature whose generated text enters a UI, workflow, or stored record.

Define instructions, user input, expected output, terminal states, and retention instead of exposing a raw completion throughout the app. Map input, output, state, tools, and side effects as one observable path, then name the owner of treat text generation as a typed product contract.

02 / OPERATE

Three-step field procedure

  1. 01

    Lock the contract

    Write down the caller, data classification, success condition, timeout, cancellation, and ownership. Use it for any feature whose generated text enters a UI, workflow, or stored record.

  2. 02

    Run one bounded path

    Build one end-to-end path with correlation, typed state, and reversible failure handling. Define instructions, user input, expected output, terminal states, and retention instead of exposing a raw completion throughout the app.

  3. 03

    Verify the signal

    Turn acceptance into a repeatable fixture, contract test, or browser test. Fixtures cover success, refusal, empty output, truncation, timeout, and policy rejection.

03 / BOUND

Operational boundary

Generated prose can be incomplete or wrong; consequential facts and actions require independent validation.

04 / PROVE

Acceptance evidence

Fixtures cover success, refusal, empty output, truncation, timeout, and policy rejection.

SOURCE / HTTP

Reproducible source probe

curl -fsSI 'https://docs.x.ai/developers/model-capabilities/text/generate-text' | sed -n '1,5p'

PRIMARY / OFFICIAL

Official xAI sources

Sources checked · 2026-08-10

  1. 01Generate Text