Jev glossary
Evaluation & TrainingMulti-hop questions
Indirection
Questions about a property of a property, or with double negatives, cost accuracy; write instructions as directly as possible.
- Category
- Evaluation & Training
- Also known as
- Multi-hop questions
- Reading time
- 1 min
- Related terms
- 4
- Directory entries
- 2
- Docs
- docs.typesafe.ai
- Added
- 2026-09-24
Definition
The jaggedness page groups double negatives and multi-hop questions as System Two tasks that Jev answers less reliably. Each hop away from the literal state costs accuracy.
The guardrail is to name the relevant parts of state explicitly with backticked paths, reduce hops, and ask the direct form of the question rather than a negated or nested one.
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Related terms
Definitions that connect to this one.
JaggednessThe documented set of jev-1.13 failure modes (literal reading, counting, dates, indirection, context rot), each with a guardrail.Evaluation & TrainingBacktick path referenceNaming a state field inside instructions with backticked dot-and-index paths, such as `ticket.messages[0].text`.PrimitivesSystem Two taskWork that needs extended, multi-step reasoning; the docs treat it as a signal to decompose rather than a job for Jev.Core ConceptsLiteral readingJev answers the question you wrote, not the one you meant; scoping words, negations, and implied conditions are read at face value.Evaluation & Training
From the Jev directory
Directory entries that go deeper on this term.
A maintained list of jev-1.13's known failure modes, literal reading, unreliable counting, dates as text, indirection, context rot, and contradictory criteria, each with a guardrail.
Jev Practices & PatternsDocs#official#docs#evaluation
Official
The three TypeSafe question types, the typed answers they return, how to choose between them, and how to ask several in a single call.
Jev Practices & PatternsDocs#official#primitives#choice
Official
From the Jev AI model community
Posts from builders shipping with Jev right now.