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AskResponse

AskResponse schema from Aider CLI

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Properties

Name	Type	Description
answer	string	Markdown answer from the LLM. No files are modified.
files_referenced	array	Files the LLM cited in its answer.

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JSON Schema

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aider/refs/heads/main/json-schema/aider-cli-ask-response-schema.json",
  "title": "AskResponse",
  "description": "AskResponse schema from Aider CLI",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "answer": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Markdown answer from the LLM. No files are modified.",
      "example": "The retry policy in `src/http/retry.py` wraps the rate limiter from `src/http/limiter.py` ..."
    },
    "files_referenced": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Files the LLM cited in its answer.",
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "example": "src/http/retry.py"
      },
      "example": [
        "src/http/retry.py",
        "src/http/limiter.py"
      ]
    }
  }
}