Single-prompt mode
A simpler Playground mode for a one-off text continuation instead of a back-and-forth conversation.
Single-prompt mode is a simpler way to try a model in the Playground: type one prompt, get one text continuation back — no conversation history, no back-and-forth.
When to use it
Reach for single-prompt mode when you just want to see how a model continues a piece of text — finishing a sentence, drafting a quick paragraph, or testing a prompt idea — rather than holding a multi-turn conversation. For anything conversational, use Chat instead.
Playground fields
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
Modelrequired | select | A model from the catalog that supports single-prompt mode. |
Promptrequired | text | The text to continue. |
Temperature | slider | How random the continuation is. |
Max length | number | Caps how long the generated continuation is allowed to be. |
When to adjust temperature and max length
- Keep temperature low when checking whether a prompt reliably produces the same kind of continuation — useful for sanity-checking a prompt template before you rely on it repeatedly.
- Raise temperature when you want several noticeably different continuations of the same prompt, to see the range of what the model can produce.
- Raise max length for a longer draft; lower it when you only need to glance at the first few lines a prompt produces.
What you see back
The Playground shows the generated continuation directly beneath your prompt, ready to copy.
Note
New to the Playground? Start with Chat — it covers system prompts, streaming replies, and multi-turn conversations, and works for most use cases single-prompt mode also covers.