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Retrospective edition / MODELS

Route by capability profile

Describe modality, tool support, latency, quality, context, and budget, then resolve the profile to a current model in configuration.

01 / DECIDE

Architecture decision

Use it when fast, deep, visual, and coding workloads have different requirements.

Describe modality, tool support, latency, quality, context, and budget, then resolve the profile to a current model in configuration. Map input, output, state, tools, and side effects as one observable path, then name the owner of route by capability profile.

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 when fast, deep, visual, and coding workloads have different requirements.

  2. 02

    Run one bounded path

    Build one end-to-end path with correlation, typed state, and reversible failure handling. Describe modality, tool support, latency, quality, context, and budget, then resolve the profile to a current model in configuration.

  3. 03

    Verify the signal

    Turn acceptance into a repeatable fixture, contract test, or browser test. A route change passes task-specific evals and records quality, latency, tools, and usage.

03 / BOUND

Operational boundary

Catalog names and availability change; keep identifiers out of domain logic and preserve rollback.

04 / PROVE

Acceptance evidence

A route change passes task-specific evals and records quality, latency, tools, and usage.

SOURCE / HTTP

Reproducible source probe

curl -fsSI 'https://docs.x.ai/developers/models' | sed -n '1,5p'

PRIMARY / OFFICIAL

Official xAI sources

Sources checked · 2026-08-10

  1. 01Models