{ "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema", "$id": "https://kb.local/wire/v1/answer.schema.json", "title": "Answer v1", "description": "Stub schema — declares the schema_version label and the required fields per design §2.3.", "type": "object", "required": [ "schema_version", "answer", "citations", "grounded", "model", "prompt_template_version", "retrieval", "usage", "created_at" ], "properties": { "schema_version": { "const": "answer.v1" }, "answer": { "type": "string" }, "citations": { "type": "array" }, "grounded": { "type": "boolean" }, "refusal_reason": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string", "enum": [ "score_gate", "llm_self_judge", "no_index", "no_chunks", "llm_stream_aborted", "multi_hop_decompose_failed", "nli_verification_failed", "nli_model_unavailable" ] }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "p9-fb-41: `multi_hop_decompose_failed` added in PR-2 alongside the multi-hop pipeline skeleton (only emitted when AskOpts.multi_hop = true and the decompose LLM call fails to parse). `nli_verification_failed` + `nli_model_unavailable` added in PR-9c-1 — both emitted only on the multi-hop path when `[rag].nli_threshold > 0`; surface declared in PR-9c-1, behavior wired in PR-9c-2." }, "model": { "type": "object" }, "embedding": { "type": ["object", "null"] }, "prompt_template_version": { "type": "string" }, "retrieval": { "type": "object" }, "usage": { "type": "object" }, "created_at": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time" }, "conversation_id": { "type": ["string", "null"], "description": "p9-fb-15: same conversation 의 turn 들이 공유. CLI single-shot / TUI 첫 turn 은 null." }, "turn_index": { "type": ["integer", "null"], "minimum": 0, "description": "p9-fb-15: 같은 conversation 안 0-based 순서. null 이면 single-shot." }, "hops": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "array", "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/HopRecord" } }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "p9-fb-41 multi-hop trace. Present (non-null array) only when the ask routed through the multi-hop pipeline (`AskOpts.multi_hop = true`); single-pass answers omit the field entirely (serde `skip_serializing_if = None`). Each entry records one LLM hop — decompose / decide / synthesize — with sub-queries, retrieval count, and per-hop latency. Wire-additive: pre-fb-41 readers tolerate the missing field; new readers branch on its presence to render the per-hop trace." }, "verification": { "anyOf": [ { "$ref": "#/$defs/VerificationSummary" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "p9-fb-41 PR-9c-1: NLI-based groundedness verification summary. Present only when `[rag].nli_threshold > 0` and multi-hop ask reached step 8.5 (single-pass ask never verifies). Surface declared in PR-9c-1; the actual stamp lands in PR-9c-2. Wire-additive: pre-v0.18 readers tolerate the missing field." } }, "$defs": { "HopRecord": { "type": "object", "required": ["iter", "kind", "context_chunks_added", "forced_stop", "llm_call_ms"], "properties": { "iter": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 0, "description": "0-based hop index. iter=0 is always the initial decompose; subsequent iters are decide calls; the final iter is the synthesize call." }, "kind": { "type": "string", "enum": ["decompose", "decide", "synthesize"] }, "sub_queries": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Per-kind semantics. Decompose: the initial sub-queries the LLM produced. Decide: the *new* sub-queries to retrieve next iter (empty when the LLM signalled stop or when forced_stop=true). Synthesize: always empty." }, "context_chunks_added": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 0, "description": "Number of *new* chunks the retrieval round contributed to the pool (deduped by chunk_id). 0 for decompose / synthesize hops." }, "forced_stop": { "type": "boolean", "description": "True when the pipeline cut the loop short due to a safety cap (max_depth / max_pool_chunks) rather than the LLM's own stop signal. Tracing signal, not a refusal." }, "llm_call_ms": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 0, "description": "Wall-clock latency of the LLM call for this hop. `0` is overloaded — means 'no LLM call happened' when (a) the Decide hop was skipped due to forced_stop or (b) the pool was empty before any decide could run. Treat 0 as absent or instantaneous." } } }, "VerificationSummary": { "type": "object", "required": ["nli_score", "nli_threshold", "nli_passed"], "properties": { "nli_score": { "type": "number", "description": "p9-fb-41 PR-9c-1: NLI entailment channel score (faithfulness) — `NliScores::faithfulness()` of `(premise = packed chunks, hypothesis = answer)`." }, "nli_threshold": { "type": "number", "description": "p9-fb-41 PR-9c-1: mirror of `[rag].nli_threshold` at the time the verification ran (audit field — same value the pipeline gates on)." }, "nli_passed": { "type": "boolean", "description": "p9-fb-41 PR-9c-1: `nli_score >= nli_threshold`. When false, the matching wire emit also carries `refusal_reason = \"nli_verification_failed\"`." } } } } }