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title: 'Official skills for Pydantic Validation, Pydantic AI, and Logfire'
description: >-
  Pydantic Validation, Pydantic AI, and Logfire now have skills, built and
  maintained by the Pydantic team for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other
  coding agents.
date: '2026-07-29'
authors:
  - Aditya Vardhan
categories:
  - Pydantic Validation
  - Pydantic AI
  - Pydantic Logfire
  - Engineering
canonical: 'https://pydantic.dev/articles/pydantic-ai-logfire-claude-code-skills'
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Pydantic Validation, Pydantic AI, and Logfire now have official skills, built and maintained by the Pydantic team. Pydantic AI and Logfire are live on Claude's plugin marketplace ([Pydantic AI](https://claude.com/plugins/pydantic-ai), [Logfire](https://claude.com/plugins/logfire)), and all three work across every coding agent that follows the [agentskills.io](https://agentskills.io) spec through the [pydantic/skills](https://github.com/pydantic/skills) repository. In Python projects, the Pydantic AI and Logfire skills also ship with the packages themselves and can be installed via [library-skills.io](https://library-skills.io).

## Why official skills

Skills for Pydantic Validation, Pydantic AI, and Logfire already exist, thanks to the OSS community, and we're glad they do. The catch is that all three libraries move fast, and skills maintained outside the repo tend to fall behind. A stale skill is worse than no skill: the agent confidently calls APIs that don't exist anymore.

## What's in them

The Pydantic Validation skill covers data modeling with Pydantic: constraints and field metadata, validators, type coercion, unions, forward annotations, and model hierarchies.

The Pydantic AI skill covers the basics of building an agent: dependencies and output types, tools and run context, structured output, streaming, and stepping through the agent graph.

The Logfire skill covers instrumentation across Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Rust: spans and structured logging, framework and library integrations, metrics, and querying telemetry.

## Install

In Claude Code, install from the official marketplace: [Pydantic AI](https://claude.com/plugins/pydantic-ai) and [Logfire](https://claude.com/plugins/logfire).

For Pydantic Validation, add the Pydantic marketplace and install the plugin:

```bash
claude plugin marketplace add pydantic/skills
claude plugin install pydantic@pydantic-skills
```

In Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, or any other agent, install the specific skill you need from the `pydantic/skills` repository:

```bash
npx skills add pydantic/skills --skill pydantic
npx skills add pydantic/skills --skill building-pydantic-ai-agents
npx skills add pydantic/skills --skill logfire-instrumentation
```

The `logfire-instrumentation` skill supports Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Rust. It tells the agent to inspect `pyproject.toml` or `requirements.txt`, `package.json`, or `Cargo.toml`, then follow the matching SDK guidance.

### Python

For Python projects, you can instead pull the skills straight from your installed dependencies via [library-skills.io](https://library-skills.io):

```bash
uvx library-skills --all
```

The `--all` flag scans transitive dependencies, which Pydantic AI needs because the skill ships in `pydantic-ai-slim`. For Logfire alone you can drop it (`uvx library-skills`).

The `library-skills` route here is specific to the Python packages.

### JavaScript/TypeScript

For Logfire, use the `logfire-instrumentation` `skills` CLI command above.

### Rust

For Logfire, use the same `logfire-instrumentation` command. The skill includes Rust-specific guidance for `Cargo.toml` projects.

If something's wrong or missing, open an issue on [pydantic](https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic), [pydantic-ai](https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai), or [logfire](https://github.com/pydantic/logfire). We'd rather hear it from you than guess.