guidance
Guidance: Constrained LLM Generation
When to Use This Skill
Use Guidance when you need to:
- Control LLM output syntax with regex or grammars
- Guarantee valid JSON/XML/code generation
- Reduce latency vs traditional prompting approaches
- Enforce structured formats (dates, emails, IDs, etc.)
- Build multi-step workflows with Pythonic control flow
- Prevent invalid outputs through grammatical constraints
GitHub Stars: 18,000+ | From: Microsoft Research
Installation
# Base installation
pip install guidance
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