OpenRouter’sDecember release spotlight includes a repair step for AI responses that an application cannot parse as JSON, a structured data format. Response Healing fixes formatting defects such as trailing commas and missing closing brackets before returning the response to the application.
The companion Response Healing release explains the boundary: repairing syntax does not check whether required fields are present or values have the expected types. Its technical announcement describes the feature as opt-in and limited to non-streamingSending a model's response token by token as it is generated, so the reader sees text immediately instead of waiting for the whole answer.Full definition → responses. Applications can use it to reduce parsing failures while retaining their own checks on the data’s structure and meaning.
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streaming — Sending a model's response token by token as it is generated, so the reader sees text immediately instead of waiting for the whole answer.
context window — The maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.
