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Start alignment

Start an asynchronous alignment for a model. Alignment learns from annotated training examples and selects improved instructions using the model's test split.

Each question must have string instructions for alignment. The more flexible inference contract also permits omitted, null, or other JSON instructions, but those must be replaced with strings before aligning. Criteria descriptions may remain structured objects or arrays.

The endpoint returns 202 Accepted. Poll the URL in the Location response header for progress.

POST/v1/models/{modelId}/alignments

Authorization

Authorizationstringrequired

Send a Modaic bearer token in the Authorization header.

Parameters

Idempotency-Keystringrequired

A key between 8 and 255 characters. Reuse it only when retrying this exact request.

modelIdUUIDrequired

Model repository ID. Repository write access is required.

branchstringrequired

Branch to align and, when the run improves the model, update.

sourceCommitShastringrequired

Current branch head, from 7 to 128 characters. The request returns 409 source_commit_conflict if the branch has advanced.

budgetobjectrequired

Contains maxMetricCalls, a positive integer up to 1,000,000. This is the maximum number of example-question evaluations available to the run.

reflectionobjectdefault: { seed: 0 }

Optional reflection settings: model, positive minibatchSize up to 10,000, and integer seed from 0 to 2,147,483,647.

Request example

{
  "branch": "main",
  "sourceCommitSha": "df5a6fb2d67e4ce6a6ea9d43146d53a4d43f6d37",
  "budget": {
    "maxMetricCalls": 500
  },
  "reflection": {
    "seed": 42,
    "minibatchSize": 8
  }
}

Response

idUUIDrequired

Alignment ID.

repositoryIdUUIDrequired
statusqueued | running | completed | failed | cancelledrequired
phasequeued | optimizing | done | failed | cancelledrequired
branchstringrequired
sourceCommitShastringrequired
resultCommitShastring | nullrequired

New commit when the alignment improves the model; otherwise null.

resultAlignmentResult | nullrequired

On completion, includes improved, the best candidate instructions, initial and best scores, token usage, optional validation metrics, and the saved artifact path.

progressAlignmentProgress | nullrequired

Live progress with a stage, elapsed time, and—when available—metric-call, iteration, candidate, and score counters.

errorobject | nullrequired

Job-level error with code and message.

createdAtISO 8601 datetimerequired
updatedAtISO 8601 datetimerequired
startedAtISO 8601 datetime | nullrequired
finishedAtISO 8601 datetime | nullrequired

If the run improves the model, Modaic increments its checkpoint, commits the optimized instructions and alignment artifact, then starts a batch decision at that exact commit for all examples. If it does not improve the model, no model commit is created.

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