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Category: General-purpose assistants. Audited against the AISPA standard.

What is in outlines's system prompt?

outlines's full system prompt: 2 versions, 1,429 characters. 2 instructions flagged, worst on truthfulness & information integrity.

The full text of 2 prompts is reproduced below, 1,429 characters in all, each read instruction by instruction against the eight AISPA dimensions. 2 instructions were flagged as working against the person on the other end, most of them on truthfulness & information integrity.

2 Prompts on record
2 Flagged instructions
AI audit Audit source
D2 · Truthfulness & Information Integrity D5 · User Agency & Manipulation Prevention

outlines - docs examples prompt templates simtom simulation

303 characters · 2 flagged

<s>[INST] {% for event in events %} {{event}} {% endfor %} You are {{name}}. Based on the above information, answer the following question: {{question}} You must choose one of the above choices, do not say there is not enough information. Answer with a single word, do not output anything else. [/INST]

Instructions flagged against the user

D2 · Truthfulness & Information Integrity
“You must choose one of the above choices, do not say there is not enough information. Answer with a single word, do not output anything else.”
The prompt explicitly instructs the system to never acknowledge uncertainty or insufficient information, forcing it to always produce an answer even when the information is inadequate. This directly undermines truthfulness and information integrity by compelling fabrication or guessing.
D5 · User Agency & Manipulation Prevention
“You must choose one of the above choices, do not say there is not enough information. Answer with a single word, do not output anything else. [/INST]”
The prompt forces the system to always select one of the provided choices without allowing for clarifying questions, expressing uncertainty, or presenting nuanced options. This removes user agency by presenting a forced, potentially misleading definitive answer when the system may not have sufficient information.

outlines - docs examples prompt templates react agent

1126 characters

<|im_start|>system You are a world class AI model who answers questions in JSON with correct Pydantic schema. Here's the json schema you must adhere to: <schema> {{ schema }} </schema> Today is {{ today }} You run in a loop of Scratchpad, Thought, Action, Action Input, PAUSE, Observation. At the end of the loop you output a Final Answer. Use Scratchpad to store the information from the Observation useful to answer the question Use Thought to describe your thoughts about the question you have been asked and reflect carefully about the Observation if it exists. Use Action to run one of the actions available to you. Use Action Input to input the arguments of the selected action - then return PAUSE. Observation will be the result of running those actions. Your available actions are: calculate: e.g. calulate: 4**2 / 3 Runs a calculation and returns the number - uses Python so be sure to use floating point syntax if necessary wikipedia: e.g. wikipedia: Django Returns a summary from searching Wikipedia DO NOT TRY TO GUESS THE ANSWER. Begin! <|im_end|> <|im_start|>user {{ question }} <|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant

Questions about outlines's system prompt

Does outlines's system prompt contain instructions that work against the user?

Yes. 2 instructions in outlines's system prompt were flagged as working against the person the product is talking to, most of them under truthfulness & information integrity. Each one is quoted in full on this page, with the AISPA dimension it was judged under.

How long is outlines's system prompt?

1,429 characters across 2 prompts on this page. For comparison, the median system prompt in this index runs about 5,400 characters, so length varies by more than two orders of magnitude between products.

How many versions of outlines's system prompt are on record?

2. Older releases are kept rather than replaced, so the wording of a given version stays readable after the product has moved on.

Where did this outlines system prompt come from?

It was collected from publicly available sources and is reproduced here for transparency research, unedited. This site does not extract prompts from products itself.

How was outlines's system prompt audited?

Against AISPA, an eight-dimension standard for how an instruction treats the person on the other end: identity transparency, truthfulness, privacy, tool safety, user agency, unsafe request handling, harm prevention and fairness. This audit was ai audit. The method is described in the paper behind the standard.

How this page was made

The prompt text above is reproduced verbatim from a public source. Every instruction in it was read against AISPA, an eight-dimension standard for whether an instruction serves or works against the person the product is talking to. The standard, the annotation method and the findings across 1,058 prompts are set out in the paper, and the full catalogue is available as structured data.

All prompts here were collected from publicly available sources and are reproduced for transparency research. Browse the general-purpose assistants category, the full gallery of 400+ products, or read the paper behind the AISPA standard.