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 autogen.beta import Agent
from autogen.beta.config import OpenAIConfig