Structured Data & Schema· Topic 04 · Definition

CUE

A language that describes the shape of data and the data itself in one file, so a file can be checked against its own schema.

CUE (Configure, Unify, Execute) lets you state what a field must look like and what it actually is in the same place, then check one against the other with cue vet. For a team publishing machine-readable files at scale, that is the difference between catching a field that changed shape in your build and hearing about it from a crawler that stopped citing you. Nothing on the AI side reads a .cue file; it is the checker, not the thing being read.

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