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ReasoningContentBlock - Amazon Bedrock

ReasoningContentBlock

Contains content regarding the reasoning that is carried out by the model with respect to the content in the content block. Reasoning refers to a Chain of Thought (CoT) that the model generates to enhance the accuracy of its final response.

Contents

Important

This data type is a UNION, so only one of the following members can be specified when used or returned.

reasoningText

The reasoning that the model used to return the output.

Type: ReasoningTextBlock object

Required: No

redactedContent

The content in the reasoning that was encrypted by the model provider for safety reasons. The encryption doesn't affect the quality of responses.

Type: Base64-encoded binary data object

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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