Pydantic AI is a typed Python SDK for building AI agents that can use different language models and interfaces, including voice, image generation, and embeddings. Developers use it for applications ranging from structured data extraction to long-running multi-agent work. The catalogue entries provide workflows and configuration for its coding-agent and harness features.
Getting it into your agent
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00090 | $0.01275 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00036 | $0.00510 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00018 | $0.00255 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00128 |
Grade A, and why
migrating-claude-agent-sdk-to-pydantic-ai 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 1mo 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- migrating-claude-agent-sdk-to-pydantic-ai — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Migrate Claude Agent SDK to Pydantic AI
Preserve observable behavior, not the Claude Code process or API shape. Migrate the smallest complete caller path and keep application infrastructure in place.
Trace the source before choosing a target
- Read repository instructions, dependencies, tests, and the runtime entrypoint. Record the installed Claude Agent SDK, bundled Claude Code CLI, Pydantic AI, and Harness versions.
- Trace one real request from
query()orClaudeSDKClientthrough prompts, tools, events, results, state, persistence, approvals, and side effects that callers use. Establish a focused baseline or characterization test. - Separate these source contracts when present:
- fresh
query()calls, liveClaudeSDKClientcontinuation, disk/external-store resume, transcript forks, and file rewind; - tool availability, automatic approval, policy callbacks, and OS/container isolation;
- completed messages, raw token deltas, lifecycle events, and terminal results;
- conversation history, workflow checkpoints, model-owned plans, long-term memory, and workspace state;
- model-directed subagents from application-owned loops, queues, retries, and schedulers.
- fresh
- Record each observed contract, its owner, semantic difference, and executable proof. An unobserved Claude Code feature is not migration scope.
Read Research and concept mapping for the detected source features. Read Verification and cutover before implementation.
Choose the smallest target
- Core: use
pydantic_ai.Agentfor model calls, the agent loop, typed dependencies, tools, outputs, normalized messages, generic hooks, streaming, MCP, approvals, usage limits, instrumentation, and durable-runtime integrations. - Harness: add
pydantic-ai-harnessonly for observed reusable policy such as coding filesystem/shell tools, repository context, planning, memory, model-directed subagents, model-agnostic context management, or Agent Skills. Harness capabilities compose through the core agent loop; Harness is not a second runtime. - Application: retain authentication, service clients, databases, queues, schedulers, deployment, product state, session lookup, tenant policy, and existing transports unless the requested slice includes them.
- Gap: name behavior that no supported public seam preserves, explain its impact, and test a bounded adapter. Do not create a lookalike
ClaudeSDKClientor emulate Claude transcript files merely to hide a difference.
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.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 58 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A 72f0b0308584
migrating-claude-agent-sdk-to-pydantic-ai is a skill published in the GitHub repository pydantic/pydantic-ai (20,645 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 1,275 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-16.
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