AI workflow glossary
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Plain-language definitions to help you read the guides and judge assistant outputs.
- Prompt
- the instruction and context you give an assistant.
- Fixture
- a fixed practice input used for repeatable checking.
- Reference answer
- an authored example of an acceptable result; not a captured test run.
- Evaluation
- observing a real model response and judging it against explicit criteria.
- Hallucination
- unsupported information presented as if it were true.
- Constraint
- a boundary the result must respect, such as time or a deadline.
- Entitlement
- a verified right to access a purchased file.
- Webhook
- a server notification from another service; not proof by itself that a customer should receive access.
- Gross revenue
- sales amount before deductions under the stated definition.
- Net profit
- revenue minus applicable costs; cannot be established from an incomplete expense list.
- Conversion rate
- qualifying outcomes divided by qualifying opportunities for the same scope and period.
- Percentage point
- the arithmetic difference between two percentages, not their relative percentage change.