ag2-structured-output

ag2-structured-output is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ag2ai/ag2-skills. It costs 117 tokens per session (1,657 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A way to make an AG2 agent return a checked Python value—such as a model, data record, number, or list—instead of only free-form text.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for classification, data extraction, scoring, normalisation, and other tasks where later code needs a defined response shape.
Why use it?
It helps software use an agent's response reliably without manually parsing prose. Invalid responses can be checked and retried.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for classification, data extraction, scoring, normalisation, and other tasks where later code needs a defined response shape.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ag2ai/ag2-skills/ag2-structured-output
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add ag2ai/ag2-skills --skill ag2-structured-output
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ag2ai/ag2-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 117 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,657 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00117 $0.01657
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.00829
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00331
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00166

Measured 10d ago against content hash fd3f62ee4159, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ag2-structured-output scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (assets/recipe_builder.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/ag2-structured-output/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Structured output

When to use

  • The user wants a Pydantic model, dataclass, dict, primitive, or union back — not a string.
  • They're doing classification, extraction, scoring, normalisation, or anything where downstream code parses the reply.
  • They want automatic retry on validation failure.

60-second recipe

from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
from typing import Annotated

from ag2 import Agent
from ag2.config import OpenAIConfig

class TicketTriage(BaseModel):
    category: Annotated[str, Field(description="e.g. billing, bug, account_access")]
    urgency: Annotated[str, Field(description="low, medium, or high")]
    summary_one_line: Annotated[str, Field(description="Max 120 characters", max_length=120)]

agent = Agent(
    "triage",
    prompt="You triage support messages. Be conservative with urgency.",
    config=OpenAIConfig(model="gpt-4o-mini"),
    response_schema=TicketTriage,
)

reply = await agent.ask("I was charged twice and can't export reports. Quarter close blocked.")
triage = await reply.content()      # → typed TicketTriage
print(triage.category, triage.urgency)

reply.body is still the raw model text; await reply.content() runs validation and returns the parsed value. If validation fails, content() raises (e.g. pydantic.ValidationError).

Schema types you can pass

Type What you get
Primitive (int, float, bool) Bare value, framework wraps in {"data": ...} for the API
dataclass Instance of the dataclass
Pydantic BaseModel Instance of the model
Union (int | str, (int, str)) One of the alternatives
dict[K, V], TypedDict Validated dict
ResponseSchema(...) Same as above, with explicit name / description for the provider
@response_schema callable Custom validation/parsing logic
PromptedSchema(inner) Schema injected into the system prompt for providers without native structured output

ResponseSchema — name your payload

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 177 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A fd3f62ee4159

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ag2-structured-output is a skill published in the GitHub repository ag2ai/ag2-skills (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 1,657 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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