# Creating protocols - [Overview](https://ldevumd.gitbook.io/bittsy/creating-protocols/structure-of-a-protocol-file.md) - [Starting definitions: SIDES, LIGHTS, DISPLAYS, and AUDIO](https://ldevumd.gitbook.io/bittsy/creating-protocols/starting-definitions.md) - [Optional experiment settings](https://ldevumd.gitbook.io/bittsy/creating-protocols/optional-experiment-settings.md) - [Tags](https://ldevumd.gitbook.io/bittsy/creating-protocols/tags.md) - [Tags referencing files](https://ldevumd.gitbook.io/bittsy/creating-protocols/tags/tags-referencing-files.md) - [Groups](https://ldevumd.gitbook.io/bittsy/creating-protocols/tags/groups.md) - [Dynamic tags](https://ldevumd.gitbook.io/bittsy/creating-protocols/tags/dynamic-tags.md) - [Phases, trials, and steps](https://ldevumd.gitbook.io/bittsy/creating-protocols/phases-trials-and-steps.md) - [Selection from a group & randomization](https://ldevumd.gitbook.io/bittsy/creating-protocols/selection-and-randomization.md) - [Action statements](https://ldevumd.gitbook.io/bittsy/creating-protocols/action-statements.md) - [Step terminating conditions](https://ldevumd.gitbook.io/bittsy/creating-protocols/step-terminating-conditions.md) - [Loops](https://ldevumd.gitbook.io/bittsy/creating-protocols/loops.md) - [JUMP](https://ldevumd.gitbook.io/bittsy/creating-protocols/jump.md) - [Habituation](https://ldevumd.gitbook.io/bittsy/creating-protocols/habituation.md) - [Setting habituation criteria](https://ldevumd.gitbook.io/bittsy/creating-protocols/habituation/setting-criteria.md) - [Meeting a criterion](https://ldevumd.gitbook.io/bittsy/creating-protocols/habituation/meeting-a-criterion.md) - [Successful and unsuccessful trials](https://ldevumd.gitbook.io/bittsy/creating-protocols/habituation/successful-and-unsuccessful-trials.md) - [Putting it all together: Example protocols](https://ldevumd.gitbook.io/bittsy/creating-protocols/example-protocols.md) - [Preferential looking example - word recognition](https://ldevumd.gitbook.io/bittsy/creating-protocols/example-protocols/preferential-looking-example-word-recognition.md) - [Preferential looking example - fast-mapping](https://ldevumd.gitbook.io/bittsy/creating-protocols/example-protocols/preferential-looking-example-fast-mapping.md) - [Headturn preference paradigm example](https://ldevumd.gitbook.io/bittsy/creating-protocols/example-protocols/headturn-preference-paradigm-example.md) - [Habituation example - familiarization to a category](https://ldevumd.gitbook.io/bittsy/creating-protocols/example-protocols/more-complex-habituation-category-learning-example.md) - [Habituation example - word-object pairings](https://ldevumd.gitbook.io/bittsy/creating-protocols/example-protocols/simple-habituation-example.md) - [Conditioned Headturn - signal detection](https://ldevumd.gitbook.io/bittsy/creating-protocols/example-protocols/conditioned-headturn-signal-detection.md) --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://ldevumd.gitbook.io/bittsy/creating-protocols.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.