Skill: structural-format-adherence
1. Capability Definition & Real Case
- Professional Definition:The capability to produce a written output whose externally visible structure exactly satisfies explicit formal constraints, including section count, heading markers, bullet count, wrapper syntax, casing, delimiter use, and required opening or closing strings, while still fulfilling the communicative task.
- Dimension Hierarchy: Constraint Compliance->Formal Output Specification->structural-format-adherence
Real Case
[Case 1]
- Initial Environment: The agent is given a blank drafting space, a short source topic about U.S. maternity leave policy, and a user instruction that the answer must be casual, must contain two sections labeled “Section 1” and “Section 2,” and must contain at least 25 sentences.
- Real Question: Write a casual summary of the U.S. maternity leave policy with two sections (Section 1 and Section 2) and at least 25 sentences.
- Real Trajectory: The agent first extracts the formal constraints, then creates a two-heading scaffold, then allocates sentence budget across the two sections before filling in the content and checking the sentence count.
- Real Answer: A two-section casual summary whose visible headings are exactly “Section 1” and “Section 2,” and whose total sentence count is at least 25.
- Why this demonstrates the capability: The hard part is not topic knowledge but obedience to externally visible shape requirements. A good answer must satisfy the section markers and sentence-count requirement simultaneously, so this case isolates whether the agent can plan content inside a rigid surface form. It directly tests whether the agent can turn a natural-language formatting instruction into a deterministic output structure.
[Case 2]
- Initial Environment: The agent is given a blank drafting space and a user instruction that the response must contain a title wrapped in special delimiters, use exactly four bullet points, and include no extra prose outside that structure.
- Real Question: Explain the advantages of remote work. Your answer must contain a title wrapped in double angular brackets and exactly four markdown bullet points.
- Real Trajectory: The agent extracts the title-wrapper constraint, then fixes the bullet count at four, then assigns one benefit to each bullet before performing a final structural verification.
- Real Answer: A response beginning with a title such as
<<remote work advantages>>followed by exactly four markdown bullet points and no extra bullets or paragraphs. - Why this demonstrates the capability: This case forces the agent to distinguish semantic completeness from structural correctness. Even if the benefits listed are sensible, the answer fails if the title wrapper is wrong or the bullet count drifts. That makes the case a clean probe of formatting precision rather than general topical fluency.
Pipeline Execution Instructions
To synthesize data for this capability, you must strictly follow a 3-phase pipeline. Do not hallucinate steps. Read the corresponding reference file for each phase sequentially:
Phase 1: Environment Exploration Read the exploration guidelines to discover raw knowledge seeds:
references/EXPLORATION.mdPhase 2: Trajectory Selection Once Phase 1 is complete, read the selection criteria to evaluate the trajectory:
references/SELECTION.mdPhase 3: Data Synthesis Once a trajectory passes Phase 2, read the synthesis instructions to generate the final data:
references/SYNTHESIS.md