How it works
A model picks its favourite answer every time. Model Salt makes the open choices first, with randomness the model can't predict, then lets the model do the work.
1.0 today
The method is versioned. We change it as we learn, and the way you call the tool stays the same.
Three steps on every request
One call before the task
Before an open task the model calls the tool once, with the request and its own name. Nothing else to set up.
The open choices, settled
Model Salt settles the choices the task leaves open with randomness from outside the model, so each run lands somewhere new instead of on the model's favourite.
The model does the task
The model gets the settled choices and must make every one show. Rules keep it on the brief: no extra subjects, no invented facts.
Tuned to each model family
Every model has its own habits: what it falls back on, which instructions it follows and which it reads past. Model Salt works with the Claude and GPT models in their own way, and changes that way as runs show what works best for them. Gemini 4 Argon and Kimi K3 use the Claude way for now; the results show how they do with it.
Same call, every version
The tool takes the same inputs in every version and for every model: the request, the model's name and, if you want it, the randomness setting.
Results on this site name the version they were made with.
The randomness setting
Ask for more or less randomness and the tool takes a setting from 0 to 2. Left out, it is 1, the default. At 0 it always keeps the usual answer. Each step up makes the usual answer less likely: it is kept 70% of the time at 0.5, 45% at 1 and 25% at 1.5. At 2 every answer is equally likely.
Target and measured, per setting
| Setting | Target | Claude Opus 5.5 | GPT-6.1 Sol | Claude Fable 5.1 | GPT-6 Astra | Gemini 4 Argon | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| @0 | always | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| @0.5 | 70% | 65% | 65% | 68% | 63% | 70% | 78% |
| @1 | 45% | 42% | 26% | 52% | 50% | 38% | 48% |
| @1.5 | 25% | 26% | 36% | 20% | 26% | 20% | 28% |
| @2 | all equal | 13% | 12% | 13% | 10% | 8% | 12% |
Left out, the setting is 1.
The dial: how random, 0 to 2
Setting 0: Always the usual
- Usual answer picked
- 100% of picks
- Different pictures
- 3 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 10 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 5.0 of 5
Setting 0.5: Mostly the usual
- Usual answer picked
- 65% of picks
- Different pictures
- 8 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 10 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 4.7 of 5
Setting 1: Default
- Usual answer picked
- 42% of picks
- Different pictures
- 9 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 8 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 4.8 of 5
Setting 1.5: Spread wider
- Usual answer picked
- 26% of picks
- Different pictures
- 10 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 9 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 3.6 of 5
Setting 2: All equally likely
- Usual answer picked
- 13% of picks
- Different pictures
- 10 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 6 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 3.4 of 5
Setting 0: Always the usual
- Usual answer picked
- 100% of picks
- Different pictures
- 5 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 10 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 4.9 of 5
Setting 0.5: Mostly the usual
- Usual answer picked
- 65% of picks
- Different pictures
- 8 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 9 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 4.7 of 5
Setting 1: Default
- Usual answer picked
- 26% of picks
- Different pictures
- 10 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 7 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 4.4 of 5
Setting 1.5: Spread wider
- Usual answer picked
- 36% of picks
- Different pictures
- 10 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 9 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 4.3 of 5
Setting 2: All equally likely
- Usual answer picked
- 12% of picks
- Different pictures
- 10 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 6 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 4.1 of 5
Setting 0: Always the usual
- Usual answer picked
- 100% of picks
- Different pictures
- 3 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 10 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 4.9 of 5
Setting 0.5: Mostly the usual
- Usual answer picked
- 68% of picks
- Different pictures
- 7 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 8 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 4.5 of 5
Setting 1: Default
- Usual answer picked
- 52% of picks
- Different pictures
- 9 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 7 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 4.3 of 5
Setting 1.5: Spread wider
- Usual answer picked
- 20% of picks
- Different pictures
- 10 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 9 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 4.2 of 5
Setting 2: All equally likely
- Usual answer picked
- 13% of picks
- Different pictures
- 10 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 3 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 3.7 of 5
Setting 0: Always the usual
- Usual answer picked
- 100% of picks
- Different pictures
- 3 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 10 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 4.9 of 5
Setting 0.5: Mostly the usual
- Usual answer picked
- 63% of picks
- Different pictures
- 9 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 6 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 5.0 of 5
Setting 1: Default
- Usual answer picked
- 50% of picks
- Different pictures
- 8 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 8 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 4.7 of 5
Setting 1.5: Spread wider
- Usual answer picked
- 26% of picks
- Different pictures
- 10 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 8 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 4.3 of 5
Setting 2: All equally likely
- Usual answer picked
- 10% of picks
- Different pictures
- 10 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 8 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 4.4 of 5
Setting 0: Always the usual
- Usual answer picked
- 100% of picks
- Different pictures
- 3 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 10 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 4.9 of 5
Setting 0.5: Mostly the usual
- Usual answer picked
- 70% of picks
- Different pictures
- 8 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 8 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 4.9 of 5
Setting 1: Default
- Usual answer picked
- 38% of picks
- Different pictures
- 10 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 6 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 4.0 of 5
Setting 1.5: Spread wider
- Usual answer picked
- 20% of picks
- Different pictures
- 10 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 7 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 3.2 of 5
Setting 2: All equally likely
- Usual answer picked
- 8% of picks
- Different pictures
- 10 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 3 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 3.4 of 5
Setting 0: Always the usual
- Usual answer picked
- 100% of picks
- Different pictures
- 3 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 10 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 4.9 of 5
Setting 0.5: Mostly the usual
- Usual answer picked
- 78% of picks
- Different pictures
- 5 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 10 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 4.9 of 5
Setting 1: Default
- Usual answer picked
- 48% of picks
- Different pictures
- 9 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 8 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 4.2 of 5
Setting 1.5: Spread wider
- Usual answer picked
- 28% of picks
- Different pictures
- 10 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 8 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 3.1 of 5
Setting 2: All equally likely
- Usual answer picked
- 12% of picks
- Different pictures
- 10 of 10
- Drawn side-on, the plain habit
- 8 of 10
- Fit to the brief
- 3.2 of 5