instructor SKILL.md skillA
instructor from orchestra-research/ai-research-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add orchestra-research/ai-research-skills/instructor@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- orchestra-research/ai-research-skills
- Path
16-prompt-engineering/instructor/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Nov 20, 2025
- First version recorded
- Nov 13, 2025
- Size
- 16,827 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13,718
- License
- MIT
Extract structured data from LLM responses with Pydantic validation, retry failed extractions automatically, parse complex JSON with type safety, and stream partial results with Instructor - battle-tested structured output library.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Instructor: Structured LLM Outputs
## When to Use This Skill
Use Instructor when you need to:
- **Extract structured data** from LLM responses reliably
- **Validate outputs** against Pydantic schemas automatically
- **Retry failed extractions** with automatic error handling
- **Parse complex JSON** with type safety and validation
- **Stream partial results** for real-time processing
- **Support multiple LLM providers** with consistent API
**GitHub Stars**: 15,000+ | **Battle-tested**: 100,000+ developers
## Installation
```bash
# Base installation
pip install instructor
# With specific providers
pip install "instructor[anthropic]" # Anthropic Claude
pip install "instructor[openai]" # OpenAI
pip install "instructor[all]" # All providers
```
## Quick Start
### Basic Example: Extract User Data
```python
import instructor
from pydantic import BaseModel
from anthropic import Anthropic
# Define output structure
class User(BaseModel):
name: str
age: int
email: str
# Create instructor client
client = instructor.from_anthropic(Anthropic())
# Extract structured data
user = client.messages.create(
model="claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929",
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How to install
mdr add orchestra-research/ai-research-skills/instructor@sha256:7be950beb848b05aThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Nov 13, 2025 and Nov 20, 2025, about one every 2 days. Its first recorded version is graded C and its latest A.
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2025-11-20 | 0a9ded4 | 16,827 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2025-11-20 | 51fc3a3 | 16,840 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2025-11-20 | 81c38fe | 16,839 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2025-11-19 | bd4461f | 16,838 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20251113.50bcd8a | 2025-11-13 | 50bcd8a | 16,290 B | C | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (16827 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
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- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
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Source
orchestra-research/ai-research-skills · 13,718 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-11 · branch main
API
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