# `prompt.free_text_in_instructions`

A free-text placeholder is written in a prompt's instructions.

Area 21, [AI](../topics/ai.md); not declinable; the next step is usually the agent's.

Free text (text, `Markdown`, objects and lists) is only ever sent as data,
under `# Request`; only a closed value is written in the instructions.



```jadpo
# Instructions

Answer this question in the language of {reader_locale}: {question}

# Request

{question}
```

```text
error: `{question}` is free text in the instructions of `AnswerQuestion`
 --> domains/support/prompts/answer_question.prompt:3:58
  |
3 | Answer this question in the language of {reader_locale}: {question}
  |                                                          ^^^^^^^^^^ free text
  reason: `question` is free text, which can carry instructions of its own. Free text is only ever sent as data, under `# Request`, inside a block tagged `<question>` that it can't close, so it can't pass itself off as the application's instructions. A closed value (an enum, a number, a date, a `Locale`) may be written in the instructions.
  next: Move `{question}` under `# Request` (agent)
  rule: prompt.free_text_in_instructions
  help: https://jadpo.dev/docs/errors/prompt.free_text_in_instructions

check failed: 1 error, 2 files
```