ContentBlock - Amazon Bedrock
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ContentBlock

A block of content for a message that you pass to, or receive from, a model with the Converse or ConverseStream API operations.

Contents

Important

This data type is a UNION, so only one of the following members can be specified when used or returned.

audio

An audio content block containing audio data in the conversation.

Type: AudioBlock object

Required: No

cachePoint

CachePoint to include in the message.

Type: CachePointBlock object

Required: No

citationsContent

A content block that contains both generated text and associated citation information, providing traceability between the response and source documents.

Type: CitationsContentBlock object

Required: No

document

A document to include in the message.

Type: DocumentBlock object

Required: No

guardContent

Contains the content to assess with the guardrail. If you don't specify guardContent in a call to the Converse API, the guardrail (if passed in the Converse API) assesses the entire message.

For more information, see Use a guardrail with the Converse API.

Type: GuardrailConverseContentBlock object

Note: This object is a Union. Only one member of this object can be specified or returned.

Required: No

image

Image to include in the message.

Note

This field is only supported by Anthropic Claude 3 models.

Type: ImageBlock object

Required: No

reasoningContent

Contains content regarding the reasoning that is carried out by the model. Reasoning refers to a Chain of Thought (CoT) that the model generates to enhance the accuracy of its final response.

Type: ReasoningContentBlock object

Note: This object is a Union. Only one member of this object can be specified or returned.

Required: No

searchResult

Search result to include in the message.

Type: SearchResultBlock object

Required: No

text

Text to include in the message.

Type: String

Required: No

toolResult

The result for a tool request that a model makes.

Type: ToolResultBlock object

Required: No

toolUse

Information about a tool use request from a model.

Type: ToolUseBlock object

Required: No

video

Video to include in the message.

Type: VideoBlock object

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: