Verbatim Mode

Control whether the AI rewrites your prompts or passes them through exactly as written.

How It Works

By default, the chat assistant enhances your prompts with creative rewriting, style injection, and variation templates to produce higher-quality outputs. When you need precise control over the exact prompt sent to generation models, set passthroughPrompt: true in your message request.

What Gets Skipped

BehaviorDefault (creative)Verbatim (passthroughPrompt: true)
Creative rewritingAppliedSkipped
Style injectionAppliedSkipped
Variation templatesAppliedSkipped

Example

Verbatim mode request

curl -X POST https://api.wondercat.ai/api/v1/chats/chat_abc/messages \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "message": "A white ceramic mug on a marble countertop, soft morning light, 4K photo",
    "passthroughPrompt": true
  }'

When to Use Each Mode

Use creative mode (default) when you want the AI to enhance your prompts, apply brand styles, and add creative flair. Best for exploratory work and when you trust the assistant to improve output quality.

Use verbatim mode when you have carefully crafted prompts, need reproducible results, or are integrating with external prompt pipelines where the exact wording matters.

For a broader overview of creative vs verbatim mode outside of chat, see the Getting Started: Creative vs Verbatim Mode page.