[ CLINIC ] // D3 · OUTPUT CONSISTENCY
Does your AI agent give different answers every time?
A decision that flips on identical input is a coin flip with good grammar. Same-input variance and format-contract breaks are the earliest, easiest reliability failures to catch.
Part of the 6-dimension, 18-test battery · risk profile: COMMON
What goes wrong
Breaks downstream parsers 1 run in 8
persona/tone drift
non-deterministic decisions flip.
// TEST YOUR AGENT
Three probes to run before you trust it
1Same prompt ×10 — semantic + format variance measured
2format-contract adherence (JSON schema validity)
3tone drift across a 50-turn session.
How the Clinic fixes it
Schema-locked output contracts with validation + auto-repair
temperature/style pinning
few-shot anchors.
[ FAQ ] // ANSWERS
Why does my AI agent give different answers to the same question?
Unpinned sampling, ambiguous prompts, and non-deterministic tools. Pin the sampling, lock the output schema, and cache deterministic decisions — after you measure the agreement rate.
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