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  "markdown": "[View Clef in the Terminal](/tools/cloudflare-clef)\n\n## What you will build\n\nAdd a structured outage check to a Cloudflare-backed agent. You will submit one incident report, inspect both the HTTP/API status and the model answer, and keep a proposed alert separate from actually paging anyone.\n\n## 1. Before you start\n\nEnable Workers AI for your Cloudflare account. Set `CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID` and `CLOUDFLARE_AUTH_TOKEN` to credentials with Workers AI access.\n\nObtain the account ID from Cloudflare and an API token authorised for Workers AI in that account. These are different values; an account ID is not a secret token. Keep the token in the shell environment, and add `--output decision.json` to the request to preserve the response for inspection.\n\n## 2. Try the task\n\nThe URL identifies the Cloudflare account and the Clef deployment. The JSON `state` is the report under examination. The question named `outage` asks about an active failure. Keep all users, some users, scheduled work and resolved incidents distinct in your test set; those differences drive your alert policy.\n\n```sh\ncurl --fail-with-body -sS \"https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/$CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID/ai/run/@cf/cloudflare/clef\" \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_AUTH_TOKEN\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  --data-binary @- \u003c\u003c'JSON'\n{\n  \"model\": \"clef\",\n  \"state\": \"The login endpoint returns 503 for all users.\",\n  \"questions\": {\n    \"outage\": {\n      \"type\": \"noul\",\n      \"instructions\": \"Does this report describe an active outage?\"\n    }\n  }\n}\nJSON\n```\n\n## 3. Check the result\n\nCheck the API success/error envelope, then inspect the returned `outage` answer. A noul value expresses probability. Compare with a routine password-reset question before deciding an alert threshold.\n\n### Inspect the response in two stages\n\nFirst check whether the HTTP request completed successfully and whether the API envelope reports an error. Only then inspect the model answer. Save the full JSON locally so you can see where the inference result sits; do not assume that a hosted API's wrapper matches a local model server.\n\nThen extract the `outage` probability and validate that it is a number in the expected range. Do not use a generic truthiness check. Decide in your application what to do with a high, low or uncertain value, and send malformed or missing results to a review path.\n\nFor this exercise, log the proposed alert to a file. This lets you compare behaviour without triggering your incident system.\n\n## 4. Troubleshooting\n\n- Authentication failures: verify the token's permissions and the account in the request URL.\n- An API error is not a negative outage answer. Keep the original error body for diagnosis.\n- If \"We had an outage last week\" triggers escalation, refine the question around an active incident and include current status in the evidence.\n- If every report looks urgent, separate outage detection from impact severity.\n\n## 5. Try it on your task\n\nTry an active login failure, a resolved failure and a routine password-reset request. Write down expected handling before running them. Next, try a single-user problem and a platform-wide report. Compare false alerts with missed incidents and record the model version, where available. Share what the test revealed rather than inferring reliability from the service accepting the request.\n\n## Documentation\n\n- [Official documentation: Clef endpoint](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/models/clef/)\n\n## Final step: review what you tried\n\nTried Clef? Share the result, including an unsuccessful attempt. 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