instructionsuch

Instructionsuch is a neologism used in discussions of instruction design and artificial intelligence to denote a class of directives that specify not only what action to take but the precise circumstances and criteria for judging that action as correct. The term appears in theoretical papers and some industry contexts to emphasize explicitness and verifiability of instructions.

Core characteristics include explicit context and conditions, hierarchical and modular structure, and clearly defined evaluation criteria. Instructions such as these aim to produce reproducible behavior across agents and environments.

Applications include prompt design for language models, specification of policies for automated systems, and the creation of testable user instructions in software and human-computer interfaces.

Example: A directive states, "Execute procedure P only if condition C holds, perform step sequence S in order, ensure validation by metric M reaching threshold T, and report success or detailed failure if any subcondition fails."

See also: instruction following, prompt engineering, formal methods.