Pydantic
Type-safe Python infrastructure — now including agents.
Pydantic builds the data-validation library underlying most of the Python AI ecosystem, plus Logfire (observability) and Pydantic AI (typed agent framework) — the type-safety layer of the harness.
Open-source project
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