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 "id": "https://redfinchadvisory.com/lexicon/interface",
 "slug": "interface",
 "prefLabel": "Interface",
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  "User interface",
  "UI"
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 "definition": "The way a person interacts with an AI system: free text, document and image upload, audio, buttons and forms, in a chat window, terminal or IDE.",
 "scopeNote": "A component of the harness. More isn't always better: a customer-facing chatbot may deliberately offer only fixed options with no free text. Rich features like generated forms and artifacts are hard for in-house builds to keep up with, which is part of the reason to buy a harness rather than build one.",
 "tier": null,
 "group": "Connections and systems",
 "broader": [
  "https://redfinchadvisory.com/lexicon/agent-harness"
 ],
 "narrower": [],
 "related": [
  {
   "id": "https://redfinchadvisory.com/lexicon/multimodal",
   "type": "related"
  }
 ],
 "links": [],
 "modified": "2026-10-21",
 "markdown": "https://redfinchadvisory.com/lexicon/interface.md",
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