This could be used in a scenario when the model is connected to other services such as calendar and scheduling API.

**Prompt**

````txt
# Customer 
I want to book an appointment for a haircut next Friday at 3pm. 

# Available times 
2024-03-11 Monday 5pm - 6pm 
2024-03-13 Wednesday 12pm - 3pm 
2024-03-15 Friday 4pm - 5pm 

# Context
Now is 2024-03-11 3:27pm 

# Instruction 
Each appointment takes 1 hour. If there is availabiltiy within "available times" that meets
Customer's schedule, output a start time of the appointment that can be scheduled in the following
format "%Y-%m-%d %H". 

If there are multiple times, choose the earliest. If no times are available, output None. 

Output should be in JSON format: 
```json JSON
{
   next_available_time: "%Y-%m-%d %H"
}
```
````

**Output**

```
{
   "next_available_time": "2024-03-15 4pm"
}

```

**API Request**

````python PYTHON
import cohere

co = cohere.ClientV2(api_key="<YOUR API KEY>")

response = co.chat(
    model="command-a-plus-05-2026",
    messages=[
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": """
    # Customer 
    I want to book an appointment for a haircut next Friday at 3pm. 

    # Available times 
    2024-03-11 Monday 5pm - 6pm 
    2024-03-13 Wednesday 12pm - 3pm 
    2024-03-15 Friday 4pm - 5pm 

    # Context
    Now is 2024-03-11 3:27pm 

    # Instruction 
    Each appointment takes 1 hour. If there is availabiltiy within "available times" that meets Customer's schedule, output a start time of the appointment that can be scheduled in the following format "%Y-%m-%d %H". 

    If there are multiple times, choose the earliest. If no times are available, output None. 

    Output should be in JSON format: 
    ```json
    {
    next_available_time: "%Y-%m-%d %H"
    }
    ```
    """,
        }
    ],
)

print(response.message.content[0].text)
````

Also check out the [Structured Outputs feature](https://docs.cohere.com/fern/pages/v2/text-generation/structured-outputs.mdx) which guarantees that output of the model will be a valid JSON object.

## Related pages

- [Changelog](../changelog.md)
- [Cohere](../index.md)
- [Cohere API](./cohere-api-index.md)
- [Cohere Labs](./cohere-labs-index.md)
- [Cohere Platform](./cohere-platform-index.md)
- [Cookbooks](./cookbooks-index.md)
- [Deployment Options](./deployment-options-index.md)
- [Embeddings (Vectors, Search, Retrieval)](./embeddings-vectors-search-retrieval-index.md)
- [Get Started](./get-started-index.md)
- [Going to Production](./going-to-production-index.md)

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