agentsop-structured-output-picker

agentsop-structured-output-picker is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from agentsope/SkillAlchemy. It costs 105 tokens per session (5,428 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision guide for making language-model output follow a required structure, such as a typed object or JSON. It compares constraining generation with Outlines, validating and retrying with Instructor, and using grammars with Guidance, then helps choose how failures should be handled.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after choosing an output format to select an enforcement library and decide whether invalid output should cause a hard failure or a softer retry.
Why use it?
It prevents malformed model responses from breaking the code that consumes them and makes the trade-offs between strict failure and graceful recovery explicit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for aider. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; built for aider.

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agentsope/skillalchemy/agentsop-structured-output-picker
Any agent
npx skills add agentsope/SkillAlchemy --skill agentsop-structured-output-picker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentsope/SkillAlchemy

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,428 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00105 $0.05428
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.02714
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.01086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00543

Measured 6d ago against content hash dc3c3913fd51, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agentsop-structured-output-picker 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 6d ago.

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/agentsop-structured-output-picker/SKILL.md · 386 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 386 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Structured-Output-Picker — 在解码处约束,还是在校验处约束?

One-liner: Three local libraries (Outlines, Instructor, Guidance) plus provider-native structured outputs all "make the model emit valid structure", but they enforce at different points and fail differently. Pick by how costly a malformed output is and whether you control the decoder. Then pick the failure stance — Assert (hard-fail + retry) vs Suggest (soft nudge, degrade gracefully) — borrowed from DSPy's constraint primitives.

This is an ENHANCE overlay. The four enforcement mechanisms each have a working local skill; what no single one provides is the cross-library *which-one

  • how-to-handle-failure* decision. That gap is hit every time an LM output is consumed by code. For what shape the content should take (code vs JSON vs prose), descend first to [[agentsop-output-format-by-model]] — this skill assumes the shape is already chosen and asks only how to enforce it.

1. 何时激活 (When to activate)

Activate after you have decided the output shape (via [[agentsop-output-format-by-model]]) and the answer was "a typed/validated object", and before you write the parsing code.

Trigger Signal
LM output feeds a parser json.loads(resp) / Model.model_validate(...) is in the next line of code
You picked a typed shape format-by-model said "JSON / Pydantic / typed field" — now: who enforces it?
Repeated parse failures JSONDecodeError, ValidationError, truncated/extra-prose responses in logs
Library is already installed outlines, instructor, or guidance is in the env and you must choose between them
An enum / regex / range must hold output must be one of N labels, a valid date, a bounded int
You must decide failure stance "if the model returns garbage, do I crash, retry, or accept-and-flag?"

Anti-triggers (skip this skill):

  • The content is code / multi-step reasoning / long prose — go back to [[agentsop-output-format-by-model]]; enforcing a JSON grammar on code is the headline anti-pattern there (Aider 61%→20%). Enforcement strength is the wrong question when the shape is wrong.
  • No code consumes the output yet (one-shot exploration).
  • The shape is one token / one number — any parser works; no library needed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 386 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 6d ago First seen · 386 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A dc3c3913fd51

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agentsop-structured-output-picker is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentsope/SkillAlchemy (361 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 5,428 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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