GenAI Basic — 064: design rollback levers on `Structured output pilots` — memo `689036 [64]`

Lesson 064: Structured output pilots

Focus

Prefer explicit failure rehearsals over aspirational wording. Token Structured output pilots:64 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: Structured output pilots · drill v4 · spin 664798.
• Habit: pair every model utterance with a trace_id you could paste into Grafana.
• Guardrail: write one RACI bullet referencing this lesson tomorrow.

Deep dive notebook

Synthetic drill artefacts

Tool-contract rehearsal

{
  "name": "forecastBacklog",
  "arguments": {
    "hours": 42,
    "team": "team-6"
  }
}

Preconditions documented in directory snapshot 202506
FAILURE: escalate if horizons > 720h without VP approval memo.

Practice

Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; screenshot graceful degradation copy. — 64 Bump literals mindset by 26.