generate_items
Generate practice questions from a passage
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Generate new practice items from a passage the learner supplies — their own reading, or the material they got wrong.
This is the PAID tier and it costs real money per call, unlike the curated bank. Prefer draw_items unless the learner specifically needs questions from their own material.
model is a priced choice: "economy" at $0.002 per item (Fast and cheap. Good enough for straightforward vocabulary in clear prose.); "standard" at $0.008 per item (Better at writing distractors that are genuinely tempting, which is the hard part of a good practice item.). Pick economy for straightforward prose and standard when the distractors need to be genuinely tempting, which is the hard part of a good question.
Limits: passage 200 characters minimum, and count at most 5 per call. Generation is capped at 10 calls per caller per day, separately from the free quota.
Generated items are NOT reviewed by a person. Every response carries a caveat saying so. Check the answer and the distractor reasons before giving them to a learner — a generated question with two defensible answers is worse than no question.
Returns 503 when generation is not enabled on the deployment; fall back to draw_items.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| source | string | yes | A passage of at least 200 characters. The learner's own reading. |
| count | integer | no | How many items, 1-5. Default 3. |
| model | string | no | Priced choice. "economy" is cheaper; "standard" writes more tempting distractors. Default economy. |
| difficulty | string | no | Target difficulty. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"source": {
"type": "string",
"description": "A passage of at least 200 characters. The learner's own reading."
},
"count": {
"description": "How many items, 1-5. Default 3.",
"type": "integer",
"minimum": -9007199254740991,
"maximum": 9007199254740991
},
"model": {
"description": "Priced choice. \"economy\" is cheaper; \"standard\" writes more tempting distractors. Default economy.",
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"economy",
"standard"
]
},
"difficulty": {
"description": "Target difficulty.",
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"foundation",
"core",
"stretch"
]
}
},
"required": [
"source"
]
}