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# Pydantic AI

> GenAI Agent Framework, the Pydantic way

Pydantic AI is a Python agent framework designed to make it less painful to build production grade applications with Generative AI.

## ~Overview

- [Pydantic AI](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/overview/index.md): How Python does AI: agents, realtime voice, image generation, embeddings. Every model, every interface, typed end to end.
- [Installation](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/overview/install/index.md): Install Pydantic AI with pip or uv on Python 3.10+, or install pydantic-ai-slim with only the optional extras for the model providers and integrations you use.
- [Coding Agent Skills](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/overview/coding-agent-skills/index.md): Install the Pydantic AI skill so coding agents like Claude Code and Codex get current framework knowledge when they build Pydantic AI applications for you.
- [Getting Help](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/overview/help/index.md): Where to get help with Pydantic AI, from getting started to advanced usage: ask the community in the Pydantic Slack or open an issue on GitHub.
- [Enterprise Support](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/overview/enterprise-support/index.md): Commercial support for Pydantic AI with an SLA: 24/7 priority help from Pydantic AI engineers on production incidents, architecture, upgrades and security.
- [Troubleshooting](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/overview/troubleshooting/index.md): Fix common Pydantic AI errors: 'This event loop is already running' in Jupyter, 'Event loop is closed', run_sync inside a tool, and missing provider API keys.

## Core Concepts

- [Agents](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/core-concepts/agent/index.md): Create and run Pydantic AI agents: run, run_sync, streaming and step-by-step iteration, plus instructions, model settings, usage limits and cancellation.
- [Dependencies](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/core-concepts/dependencies/index.md): Pass data and services to a Pydantic AI agent's instructions, tools and output validators with type-safe dependency injection, and override them in tests.
- [Output](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/core-concepts/output/index.md): Get structured output from Pydantic AI agents as validated Pydantic models or text, with tool, native or prompted output modes, validators and streaming.
- [Multimodal Input](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/core-concepts/input/index.md): Send images, audio, video, PDFs and other documents to a Pydantic AI agent by URL, as binary content, or as files uploaded to a provider's Files API.
- [Hooks](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/core-concepts/hooks/index.md): Add lifecycle hooks to a Pydantic AI agent to log, modify, retry or skip model requests, tool calls, output and stream events, without subclassing.
- [Workspaces](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/core-concepts/workspace/index.md)
- [Capabilities](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/overview/index.md): Bundle tools, instructions, model settings and hooks into reusable Pydantic AI capabilities, and browse the built-in capabilities you can add to any agent.
- [On-Demand Capabilities](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/on-demand/index.md): Load Pydantic AI capabilities on demand like Agent Skills: the model sees a one-line catalog entry and pulls in instructions and tools only when needed.
- [Building Custom Capabilities](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/custom/index.md): Write your own Pydantic AI capability by subclassing AbstractCapability to bundle tools, instructions, settings and hooks, for guardrails or middleware.
- [Agent Specs](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/core-concepts/agent-spec/index.md): Define Pydantic AI agents declaratively in YAML or JSON (model, instructions, capabilities) and load them with one line, without agent construction code.
- [Messages and chat history](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/core-concepts/message-history/index.md): Continue multi-turn conversations with Pydantic AI message history: reuse and store messages as JSON, inject messages mid-run, and trim or summarize history.
- [Persistence](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/core-concepts/persistence/index.md): Choose how to persist Pydantic AI conversations: store message history in your database, use the Harness for persistence and memory, or use durable execution.
- [Direct Model Requests](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/core-concepts/direct/index.md): Make low-level requests to any LLM with the Pydantic AI direct API when you only need input and output schema translation, not the full Agent machinery.
- [Retries](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/core-concepts/retries/index.md): Configure retries in Pydantic AI: HTTP transport retries for rate limits and 5xx errors, provider SDK retries, tool and output retries, and how they multiply.
- [Timeouts](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/core-concepts/timeouts/index.md): Set timeouts in Pydantic AI for model requests, tool calls, hooks, MCP servers and realtime sessions, bound a whole run, and end a run early from inside a tool.
- [Multi-Agent Patterns](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/guides/multi-agent-applications/index.md): Build multi-agent systems with Pydantic AI: delegate to sub-agents through tools, hand off between agents in your code, or orchestrate them with graphs.

## Models & Providers

- [Overview](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/overview/index.md): Find supported model developers, cloud platforms, inference services, gateways and local servers, with setup guides, model selection and fallback configuration.
- [Pydantic AI Gateway](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/overview/gateway/index.md): Pydantic AI Gateway: one API key for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq and Bedrock models, with spending limits, failover, load balancing and observability.
- [OpenAI](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/openai/index.md): Use OpenAI GPT models with Pydantic AI via the Responses or Chat Completions API, with native tools, background mode, conversations and compaction.
- [Anthropic](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/anthropic/index.md): Use Anthropic Claude models with Pydantic AI, with prompt caching, task budgets and compaction, directly or via Bedrock, Vertex AI or Microsoft Foundry.
- [Google](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/google/index.md): Use Google Gemini models with Pydantic AI through the Gemini API or Vertex AI, with video and file input, image generation, thinking and safety settings.
- [AWS Bedrock](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/bedrock/index.md): Use Amazon Bedrock models like Claude, Nova and GPT-OSS with Pydantic AI via the Converse or Mantle API, with guardrails, prompt caching and inference profiles.
- [Google Cloud](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/google-cloud/index.md): Use Gemini, Model Garden models and Claude on Google Cloud (Vertex AI) with Pydantic AI: application default credentials, service accounts, API keys and regions.
- [Microsoft Azure / Foundry](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/azure/index.md): Use Azure OpenAI and Microsoft Foundry model deployments with Pydantic AI through the Chat Completions or Responses API, or Claude via the Anthropic SDK.
- [Cerebras](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/cerebras/index.md): Use models hosted on Cerebras with Pydantic AI: install the cerebras optional group, set your API key, and configure the Cerebras provider for your agents.
- [Cohere](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/cohere/index.md): Use Cohere models with Pydantic AI: install the cohere optional group, set your API key, configure the provider and SDK retries, and pass Cohere model settings.
- [Crusoe](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/crusoe/index.md): Use open-weight models from Crusoe Serverless Inference with Pydantic AI, with lab-prefixed model names and native structured output across the whole catalog.
- [DeepSeek](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/deepseek/index.md): Use DeepSeek V4 models with Pydantic AI through the Chat Completions or Responses API, with thinking, structured output and the deepseek: prefix.
- [GitHub Copilot](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/github-copilot/index.md): Use Claude, Gemini, GPT and Kimi models from your GitHub Copilot subscription with Pydantic AI, with device login, plan-dependent model IDs and thinking.
- [Groq](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/groq/index.md): Use models hosted on Groq with Pydantic AI: install the groq optional group, set your API key, configure the provider, and tune the SDK's retry behavior.
- [Hugging Face](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/huggingface/index.md): Use open source models like Qwen and DeepSeek through Hugging Face Inference Providers with Pydantic AI, choosing the provider and the organization billed.
- [Mistral](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/mistral/index.md): Use Mistral models with Pydantic AI: install the mistral optional group, set your API key, and configure the Mistral provider for your agents.
- [Moonshot AI / Kimi](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/moonshotai/index.md): Use Moonshot AI's Kimi models with Pydantic AI through MoonshotAIProvider and the OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions API, with the moonshotai: prefix.
- [Ollama](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/ollama/index.md): Run local models or Ollama Cloud with Pydantic AI through Ollama's OpenAI-compatible API, with native structured output on self-hosted Ollama servers.
- [OpenAI Codex](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/openai-codex/index.md): Use your ChatGPT or Codex subscription with Pydantic AI instead of a pay-per-token API key, logging in through the same OAuth flow as the Codex CLI.
- [OpenRouter](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/openrouter/index.md): Use models from many labs through OpenRouter with Pydantic AI, with app attribution, OpenRouter model settings, tool choice, prompt caching and web search.
- [Snowflake Cortex](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/snowflake/index.md): Use Claude, GPT, Llama, Mistral and other models through Snowflake Cortex with Pydantic AI, so your data stays inside your Snowflake account's perimeter.
- [System One API](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/system-one/index.md): Run Pydantic AI agents on any decision model behind the /v1/systemone API, such as Contrastive Language Models (CLM), Laya, and the decision models Ollama runs locally.
- [TypeSafe (Jev)](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/typesafe/index.md): Run Pydantic AI agents on Jev from TypeSafe, a classifier that answers typed questions with confidence scores, for routing, guards and judging conversations.
- [xAI](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/xai/index.md): Use xAI Grok models with Pydantic AI: configure the provider and use image generation, X search, file attachments, reasoning effort and multi-agent models.
- [Z.AI](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/zai/index.md): Use Z.AI (Zhipu AI) GLM models with Pydantic AI: install the zai optional group, set your API key, and enable thinking mode with preserved thinking.
- [Other compatible APIs](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/compatible-apis/index.md): Use OpenAI-compatible inference platforms and gateways such as Fireworks AI, Together AI, Vercel AI Gateway, LiteLLM and vLLM with Pydantic AI, or connect to any custom endpoint.
- [Decision models](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/decision/index.md): Use a decision model with Pydantic AI for classification, routing and yes-or-no judgements: typed answers with a confidence, cheaper and faster than an LLM.

## Tools & Toolsets

- [Function Tools](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/tools-toolsets/tools/index.md): Give a Pydantic AI agent function tools for LLM tool calling with @agent.tool, validating arguments from type hints and using docstrings as descriptions.
- [Advanced Tool Features](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/tools-toolsets/tools-advanced/index.md): Advanced Pydantic AI function tools: return images and files, custom schemas, strict mode, dynamic tools, tool choice, retries, parallel calls and tool search.
- [Toolsets](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/tools-toolsets/toolsets/index.md): Group tools into reusable Pydantic AI toolsets that you can register in one go, swap at runtime or in tests, and compose to filter, rename or wrap tool calls.
- [Deferred Tools](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/tools-toolsets/deferred-tools/index.md): Add human-in-the-loop tool approval to Pydantic AI agents, or hand tool calls to a frontend or background worker, and resume the run with the results.
- [Native Tools](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/tools-toolsets/native-tools/index.md): Use provider-executed native tools (formerly builtin tools) in Pydantic AI: web search, code execution, web fetch, image generation, file search, MCP and more.
- [Common Tools](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/tools-toolsets/common-tools/index.md): Add ready-made tools to a Pydantic AI agent, such as DuckDuckGo and Tavily web search and web fetch, implemented in Pydantic AI and runnable with any model.
- [Third-Party Tools](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/tools-toolsets/third-party-tools/index.md): Use tools from third-party libraries such as LangChain and from MCP servers in your Pydantic AI agents, as toolsets or as capabilities.

## Capabilities

- [Pydantic AI Harness](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/index.md): Pydantic AI Harness is the official capability library for Pydantic AI: a coding agent, file and shell tools, memory, subagents, and context management.

### Harnesses

- [Coder](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/coder/index.md): Build a coding agent with Pydantic AI Harness: Coder gives any model read, write, edit, grep, and shell tools, delegation to a fresh run of itself, plus repo instructions and context management.
- [Researcher](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/researcher/index.md): Build a web research agent with Pydantic AI Harness: Researcher combines web search, page fetching, and a research subagent to answer with cited sources.

### Execution Environments

- [FileSystem](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/filesystem/index.md): Give a Pydantic AI agent tools to read, write, edit, list, and search files in the run's workspace, bounded by one directory with allow, deny, and read-only glob patterns.
- [Shell](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/shell/index.md): Give a Pydantic AI agent shell command execution with allow/deny controls, environment scrubbing, and managed background processes.
- [Modal Sandbox](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/modal-sandbox/index.md): Run a Pydantic AI agent's commands and file edits in an isolated Modal cloud sandbox instead of on your machine.
- [E2B Sandbox](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/e2b-sandbox/index.md): Run a Pydantic AI agent's commands and file edits in an isolated E2B cloud sandbox instead of on your machine.
- [Sprites Sandbox](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/sprites-sandbox/index.md): Run a Pydantic AI agent's commands and file edits in a persistent Fly.io Sprite instead of on your machine.
- [SSH Workspace](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/ssh-workspace/index.md): Run a Pydantic AI agent's commands and file edits on another machine over SSH, with your own ssh client and configuration.
- [Bubblewrap Sandbox](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/bubblewrap-sandbox/index.md): Run a Pydantic AI agent's commands in a Linux bubblewrap sandbox on the host they run on, over SSH or locally.
- [Durable Execution](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/durable-execution/index.md): Run Pydantic AI Harness workspace capabilities such as Coder, Shell, and FileSystem under Temporal, DBOS, or Prefect, and see exactly which features work on each engine.

### Tools & Native Abilities

- [MCP](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/mcp/index.md): Connect a Pydantic AI agent to local or remote MCP servers with the MCP capability, calling tools from your own process or via provider-native MCP.
- [Image Generation](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/image-generation/index.md): Let a Pydantic AI agent generate images when it decides to, via the provider's native image tool or a fallback image model or image-capable subagent.
- [StackOne](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/stackone/index.md): Connect a Pydantic AI agent to a user's linked business apps, such as BambooHR, Salesforce, Workday, or Zendesk, and run their actions through StackOne.
- [LocalStack](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/localstack/index.md): Give a Pydantic AI agent access to an emulated AWS environment through the AWS CLI, with an optional Docker-managed LocalStack container lifecycle.
- [Macroscope](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/macroscope/index.md): Run a local Macroscope code review from a Pydantic AI agent and get structured findings it can verify and fix with its own file and shell tools.
- [Day AI](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/day-ai/index.md): Connect a Pydantic AI agent to Day AI's hosted MCP server to search and update CRM records and meeting context.
- [GitHub](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/github/index.md): Give a Pydantic AI agent GitHub tools through GitHub's hosted MCP server: read and change repositories, issues, and pull requests with per-user tokens.
- [Google Workspace](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/google-workspace/index.md): Give a Pydantic AI agent Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive, Docs, and Sheets tools through Google's hosted MCP servers, with per-user OAuth tokens.
- [Grain](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/grain/index.md): Connect a Pydantic AI agent to Grain's hosted MCP server to search and read meetings, transcripts, and notes.
- [Linear](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/linear/index.md): Give a Pydantic AI agent Linear tools through Linear's hosted MCP server: read and update issues, projects, and comments, with per-user tokens or OAuth.
- [Logfire MCP](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/logfire-mcp/index.md): Give a Pydantic AI agent Logfire tools through the hosted Logfire MCP server: query traces and telemetry and manage projects, with per-user API keys.
- [Notion](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/notion/index.md): Give a Pydantic AI agent Notion tools through Notion's hosted MCP server: search and edit pages in a workspace, with per-user OAuth access tokens.
- [Ordinal](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/ordinal/index.md): Connect a Pydantic AI agent to Ordinal's hosted MCP server to draft, schedule, and analyze social posts.
- [PostHog](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/posthog/index.md): Connect a Pydantic AI agent to PostHog's hosted MCP server to query product analytics and manage feature flags, experiments, and dashboards.
- [Pylon](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/pylon/index.md): Connect a Pydantic AI agent to Pylon's hosted MCP server to work with support issues, accounts, and contacts.
- [Slack](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/slack/index.md): Give a Pydantic AI agent Slack tools through Slack's hosted MCP server: read and send messages, browse channels, and edit canvases as a Slack user.

### Web & Research

- [Web Search](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/web-search/index.md): Give a Pydantic AI agent web search with the WebSearch capability, using the provider's native search when available and a local fallback such as DuckDuckGo.
- [Web Fetch](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/web-fetch/index.md): Let a Pydantic AI agent fetch the contents of URLs with the WebFetch capability, using the provider's native web fetch tool or a local fallback on other models.
- [X Search](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/x-search/index.md): Let a Pydantic AI agent search X (Twitter) posts with the XSearch capability, natively on xAI models or delegated to an xAI subagent from other models.
- [Exa Search](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/exa-search/index.md): Give a Pydantic AI agent Exa web search: relevant excerpts per result, full-page reads, opt-in deep search with cited answers, and Exa Agent research runs.
- [You.com](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/youdotcom/index.md): Give a Pydantic AI agent You.com web search, page reads, cited answers, and multi-step deep research, including a finance research mode, via the You.com APIs.
- [Browser Use](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/browser-use/index.md): Hand open-ended web tasks from a Pydantic AI agent to a browser-use agent that drives a real Chromium browser and returns text or validated JSON results.
- [Playwright Browser](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/playwright/index.md): Give a Pydantic AI agent a real Chromium browser through Playwright to navigate, click, type, read, run JavaScript, and screenshot dynamic or logged-in pages.

### Reasoning, Planning & Delegation

- [Thinking](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/thinking/index.md): Enable thinking and reasoning effort in Pydantic AI with the Thinking capability, or use native settings for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Bedrock and more.
- [Planning](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/planning/index.md): Give a Pydantic AI agent a todo list it plans and updates itself, with subtasks, dependencies, SQLite, Postgres, or Redis storage, and a cache-safe reminder.
- [Subagents](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/subagents/index.md): Let a Pydantic AI agent delegate tasks to named subagents through one delegate_task tool, with per-subagent budgets, model choice, and Markdown agent files.
- [Dynamic Workflow](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/dynamic-workflow/index.md): Let a Pydantic AI orchestrator agent coordinate subagents by writing one sandboxed Python script: fan out in parallel, chain, vote, and retry in one tool call.
- [Advisor](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/advisor/index.md): Let a Pydantic AI agent consult a second, often stronger model mid-run, via the provider-native advisor tool on Anthropic or OpenRouter, or a local fallback.
- [Background Tools](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/background-tools/index.md): Run slow Pydantic AI tools in the background so the agent keeps working, then deliver each tool's result to the model as a follow-up message when it finishes.

### Context Management

- [Code Mode](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/code-mode/index.md): Let a Pydantic AI agent call its tools from one sandboxed Python script (programmatic tool calling) instead of one model round-trip per tool call.
- [Tool Search](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/tool-search/index.md): Let the model discover deferred tools on demand with the Pydantic AI ToolSearch capability, so agents with many tools only pay tokens for the ones they use.
- [Provider-Native Compaction](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/compaction/index.md): Keep long Pydantic AI conversations within the context window using OpenAI or Anthropic native compaction, or trim and summarize message history on any model.
- [Compaction Strategies](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/compaction/index.md): Keep a long Pydantic AI agent run within the context window on any model: clear old tool results, trim, or summarize history, with tiered escalation.
- [Tool Output Limits](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/tool-output-limits/index.md): Keep large tool outputs from filling a Pydantic AI agent's context window: truncate them, spill them to a file the model can page through, or summarize them.
- [Warn On Cache Busts](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/warn-on-cache-busts/index.md): Catch prompt cache busts in Pydantic AI: warn when the cached prefix read back collapses between model requests or turns, from a moved prefix or expired cache.

### Knowledge & Memory

- [Memory](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/memory/index.md): Give a Pydantic AI agent long-term memory across runs: a Markdown notebook it writes and searches, per-user namespaces, and file, SQLite, or Postgres stores.
- [Conversation Search](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/conversation-search/index.md): Let a Pydantic AI agent search its past conversation history, including messages compaction removed from context, with BM25 over Step Persistence snapshots.
- [Skills](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/skills/index.md): Load Agent Skills (SKILL.md files) from the run's workspace into a Pydantic AI agent on demand: the model sees each skill's name and description and loads its instructions when needed.
- [Repo Context](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/repo-context/index.md): Load a repo's AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md instruction files into a Pydantic AI agent and inventory its skills, subagents, and hooks under .claude or .agents.
- [Pydantic AI Docs](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/pydantic-ai-docs/index.md): Give an agent a tool that locates and returns Pydantic AI documentation on demand instead of preloading it into the system prompt.

### Control & Safety

- [Guardrails](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/guardrails/index.md): Add input, output, and tool call guardrails to a Pydantic AI agent: block, redact, retry, or require approval, with built-in secret and PII detectors.
- [Prompt Injection Defender](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/prompt-injection-defender/index.md): Scan a Pydantic AI agent's tool results (emails, tickets, web pages) for indirect prompt injection with StackOne Defender, and optionally block risky ones.
- [Spend Limits](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/spend/index.md): Set daily, monthly, or per-tenant USD and token budgets for a Pydantic AI agent, track LLM cost per response, and stop requests once a budget is spent.
- [Handle Deferred Tool Calls](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/handle-deferred-tool-calls/index.md): Approve or resolve deferred tool calls from a handler inside a Pydantic AI run with HandleDeferredToolCalls, so human-in-the-loop approval does not end the run.
- [Ask User](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/ask-user/index.md): Let a Pydantic AI agent ask the user clarifying multiple-choice questions mid-run and wait for answers, from a terminal, web UI, or test answerer you supply.
- [System Reminders](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/system-reminders/index.md): Re-inject reminders into a long Pydantic AI agent run on a cadence or condition to counter instruction fade, without breaking the prompt cache.
- [Trajectory Judge](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/trajectory-judge/index.md): Use an LLM judge to review a live Pydantic AI agent run every N model requests and steer it back on course mid-run when it drifts from the task.
- [Tool Call Judge](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/tool-call-judge/index.md): Ask a second model whether a tool call may run, and block it before the tool function executes.

### Self-Extension

- [Runtime Capability Creation](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/capability-creation/index.md): Let a Pydantic AI agent write its own capabilities (tools, hooks, instructions) as Python during a run, validate them, and load them on the next run.

### Execution Runtime

- [Instrumentation](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/instrumentation/index.md): Trace Pydantic AI agent runs, model requests and tool calls with OpenTelemetry using the Instrumentation capability, following the GenAI semantic conventions.
- [Step Persistence](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/step-persistence/index.md): Save Pydantic AI agent run snapshots to memory, files, SQLite, or MongoDB so you can resume or fork a run after a crash, with a ledger of tool side effects.
- [Media Stores](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/media/index.md): Store large images, audio, and text from Pydantic AI message history in content-addressed disk, SQLite, S3, or MongoDB stores to keep run snapshots small.
- [Managed Prompt](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/managed-prompt/index.md): Back a Pydantic AI agent's instructions with a Logfire-managed prompt so you can version, label, and roll it out without redeploying.
- [Repair Tool Arguments](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/repair-tool-arguments/index.md): Fix malformed JSON tool call arguments from the model, such as trailing commas, single quotes, or truncated JSON, before Pydantic AI validates them.
- [Thread Executor](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/thread-executor/index.md): Run sync tools and callbacks on your own thread pool with the Pydantic AI UseThreadExecutor capability, so long-running servers do not accumulate threads.

### Loop Customization

- [Select Model](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/select-model/index.md): Route each Pydantic AI run or step to a different model, chosen from dependencies, message history or usage, with the SelectModel capability.
- [Resolve Model ID](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/resolve-model-id/index.md): Map custom model names to Pydantic AI models with ResolveModelId, using run dependencies for per-user API keys, per-tenant providers or model registries.
- [Prepare Tools](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/prepare-tools/index.md): Hide, filter or modify the tools the model sees on each step of a Pydantic AI run with the PrepareTools and PrepareOutputTools capabilities.
- [Prefix Tools](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/prefix-tools/index.md): Namespace a capability's tool names with the Pydantic AI PrefixTools capability to avoid conflicts when composing capabilities with overlapping tool names.
- [Include Tool Return Schemas](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/include-tool-return-schemas/index.md): Send tool return type schemas to the model with the Pydantic AI IncludeToolReturnSchemas capability, natively where supported or in the tool description.
- [Set Tool Metadata](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/set-tool-metadata/index.md): Tag selected tools with metadata key-value pairs using the Pydantic AI SetToolMetadata capability, for other capabilities or custom logic to inspect.
- [Raise Content Filter Error](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/raise-content-filter-error/index.md): Treat any model response stopped by a provider content filter as a ContentFilterError in Pydantic AI, even when partial or refusal text comes back.
- [Reinject System Prompt](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/reinject-system-prompt/index.md): Make sure a Pydantic AI agent's system prompt is always sent, even when message history from a UI or database has dropped it, with ReinjectSystemPrompt.
- [Process History](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/process-history/index.md): Trim, redact or summarize the message history before each model request in a Pydantic AI run by wrapping a history processor in the ProcessHistory capability.
- [Process Event Stream](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/process-event-stream/index.md): Forward a Pydantic AI agent's model streaming and tool execution events to your own handler with the ProcessEventStream capability, even from agent.run().
- [Examples](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/examples/index.md): Example Pydantic AI Harness agents to read and copy: a coding agent and a web research agent, each built from individual capabilities with full configuration.
- [Third-Party Capabilities](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/third-party/index.md): Find community capability packages for Pydantic AI, covering todos, context management, subagents, guardrails, sandboxing, Agent Skills, SQL analytics and RAG.

## Realtime (speech-to-speech)

- [Overview](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/overview/index.md): Build voice agents with Pydantic AI realtime: live speech-to-speech conversations over the OpenAI Realtime API, Gemini Live, xAI and Azure, with your tools.
- [Audio, images, and transcripts](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/audio/index.md): Stream PCM microphone audio, text and images into a Pydantic AI realtime session, play back the spoken reply, and show live captions and input transcription.
- [Events](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/events/index.md): Handle the Pydantic AI realtime session event stream: content parts, tool activity, turn boundaries, reconnects and recoverable errors, as typed events.
- [Turns and interruptions](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/turns/index.md): Control turn-taking in Pydantic AI realtime voice agents: voice activity detection (VAD), barge-in when the user talks over the model, and push-to-talk.
- [Tools](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/tools/index.md): Give Pydantic AI realtime voice agents tools that run on your backend, with argument validation, retries, concurrent execution and recorded tool-call messages.
- [Capabilities and hooks](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/capabilities/index.md): See which Pydantic AI capabilities and hooks run in a realtime voice session, which do not, and how tools and hooks reach the live session through RunContext.
- [History and handoff](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/history/index.md): Start Pydantic AI voice sessions from earlier text or voice history, continue them later, or hand the conversation to a text model for summaries and extraction.
- [Connecting a frontend](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/deployment/index.md): Connect browsers and phone calls to a Pydantic AI realtime voice agent via WebRTC, a WebSocket relay or a Twilio bridge, with keys and tools on your server.
- [Connection lifecycle](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/lifecycle/index.md): Manage a Pydantic AI realtime session's connection: reconnect after drops and session limits, hang up on idle timeouts, and handle realtime errors.
- [Usage and observability](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/observability/index.md): Track usage and cost of Pydantic AI realtime voice sessions, cap them with usage limits, and trace them with OpenTelemetry and Pydantic Logfire.
- [Troubleshooting](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/troubleshooting/index.md): Fix common Pydantic AI realtime voice problems: no audio, a model that never replies or answers twice, echo cutoffs, stalled tools, lost reconnects.
- [OpenAI](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/openai/index.md): Use OpenAI's GPT-Live and gpt-realtime voice models with Pydantic AI through OpenAILiveModel and OpenAIRealtimeModel: setup, model routing, delegation, voices, VAD settings, reasoning and browser WebRTC.
- [Azure](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/azure/index.md): Run Pydantic AI realtime voice agents on Azure OpenAI or Azure AI Voice Live with AzureRealtimeModel: deployment names, transcription, Entra ID auth and WebRTC.
- [Google Gemini](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/gemini/index.md): Connect a Pydantic AI agent to Gemini Live on the Gemini API or Vertex AI with GoogleRealtimeModel: native audio, live video, Google Search and settings.
- [xAI](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/xai/index.md): Connect a Pydantic AI agent to xAI Grok Voice with XaiRealtimeModel: setup, grok-voice model names, voices, turn detection, reasoning and session resumption.

## Durable Execution

- [Overview](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/durable_execution/overview/index.md): Add durable execution to Pydantic AI agents so runs survive crashes, restarts and API failures, using Temporal, DBOS, Prefect, Restate or another engine.
- [Building a backend](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/durable_execution/backends/index.md): Integrate a new durable execution engine with Pydantic AI using the stable backend builder, routing model requests, tool calls and events through your engine.
- [Temporal](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/durable_execution/temporal/index.md): Make Pydantic AI agents durable with Temporal, running model requests and tool calls as activities so agents recover from crashes and resume long-running work.
- [DBOS](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/durable_execution/dbos/index.md): Make Pydantic AI agents durable with DBOS, checkpointing model requests and MCP calls to Postgres or SQLite so a workflow resumes from its last completed step.
- [Prefect](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/durable_execution/prefect/index.md): Make Pydantic AI agents durable with Prefect, running model requests and tool calls as cached, retryable tasks in a flow you can deploy and run on a schedule.
- [Restate](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/durable_execution/restate/index.md): Make Pydantic AI agents durable with Restate, journaling model calls and tool steps so a crashed agent replays and resumes, via the Restate SDK's RestateAgent.
- [AWS Lambda](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/aws-lambda/index.md): Make a Pydantic AI agent durable on AWS Lambda durable functions: checkpoint model requests and tool calls so retried or timed-out invocations resume.
- [Absurd](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/absurd/index.md): Make a Pydantic AI agent run durable on Absurd, a Postgres-based durable-execution engine -- model requests, MCP calls, and function tool calls are checkpointed into steps so a crashed worker resumes mid-run.
- [Kitaru](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/durable_execution/kitaru/index.md): Make Pydantic AI agents durable with Kitaru, which records runs as flows and checkpoints so model requests, tool calls and human waits resume after recovery.
- [Apache Airflow](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/durable_execution/airflow/index.md): Run a Pydantic AI agent as a durable Apache Airflow task that resumes from its last completed model request or tool call instead of replaying the run.

## Interfaces

- [Overview](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/overview/interfaces/index.md): Run the same Pydantic AI agent headless, in a terminal, behind a web UI or your own frontend, in an editor, over voice, or as a server for other agents.
- [Web Chat UI](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/guides/web/index.md): Chat with your Pydantic AI agents in a browser using the built-in web chat UI, launched from the clai CLI or served from your own Python application.

### UI Event Streams

- [Overview](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/integrations/ui/overview/index.md): Connect a Pydantic AI agent to a chat frontend with UI event stream protocols such as AG-UI and the Vercel AI SDK, served from Starlette or FastAPI.
- [AG-UI](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/integrations/ui/ag-ui/index.md): Serve Pydantic AI agents to CopilotKit and other AG-UI frontends, with streamed events, frontend tools, shared state, tool approval interrupts and Slack bots.
- [Vercel AI](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/integrations/ui/vercel-ai/index.md): Stream Pydantic AI agent runs to frontends built with Vercel AI SDK UI hooks like useChat, using the Vercel AI Data Stream Protocol adapter.
- [Command Line Interface (CLI)](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/integrations/cli/index.md): Chat with LLMs from your terminal using clai, the Pydantic AI command line interface, or serve your own Pydantic AI agents in a browser chat UI.
- [GitHub Agentic Workflows](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/gh-aw/index.md): Run your own Pydantic AI agent in GitHub Agentic Workflows (gh-aw): headless in GitHub Actions on issues, pull requests, or a schedule, with MCP tools.
- [ACP](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/acp/index.md): Run a Pydantic AI agent inside Zed and other editors over the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), with streamed text, diff views, tool approval, and sessions.

## ~Guides

- [Extensibility](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/guides/extensibility/index.md): Extend Pydantic AI with capabilities, custom toolsets, models and agents, publish your own capability packages, and find third-party packages built on them.
- [Observability](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/integrations/logfire/index.md): Debug and monitor Pydantic AI agents with Pydantic Logfire or any OpenTelemetry backend, tracing the model requests, tool calls and token usage of every run.
- [Image Generation](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/guides/image-generation/index.md): Generate and edit images from Python with the Pydantic AI ImageGenerator API, using GPT Image, Gemini and Grok Imagine models from OpenAI, Google and xAI.
- [Embeddings](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/guides/embeddings/index.md): Generate text embeddings with Pydantic AI using OpenAI, Google, Cohere, VoyageAI, Bedrock or local Sentence Transformers, for semantic search and RAG.
- [Testing](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/guides/testing/index.md): Unit test Pydantic AI agents with pytest by swapping in TestModel or FunctionModel via Agent.override, for fast, deterministic tests with no real LLM calls.

## MCP

- [Overview](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/mcp/overview/index.md): Use the Model Context Protocol with Pydantic AI: connect agents to MCP servers as a client, use provider-native MCP tools, or run agents inside an MCP server.
- [Client](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/mcp/client/index.md): Connect Pydantic AI agents to MCP servers over Streamable HTTP, SSE or stdio, load them from config, and use sampling, elicitation, resources and auth.
- [Server](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/mcp/server/index.md): Use Pydantic AI agents inside the tools of your own MCP server, and route their LLM calls back through the connected client with MCP sampling.

## Pydantic Evals

- [Overview](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/evals/evals/index.md): Pydantic Evals is a code-first Python framework for evaluating LLM apps and agents: score outputs and tool-call trajectories on datasets or live traffic.

### Getting Started

- [Quick Start](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/evals/getting-started/quick-start/index.md): Install Pydantic Evals and run your first eval in Python: define test cases and evaluators, add an LLM judge or latency check, and print the evaluation report.
- [Core Concepts](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/evals/getting-started/core-concepts/index.md): Learn the core concepts of Pydantic Evals, including datasets, cases, experiments, evaluators and evaluation reports, and how they work together.

### Evaluators

- [Overview](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/evals/evaluators/overview/index.md): Choose the right Pydantic Evals evaluators for your task, from fast deterministic checks to LLM judges and span-based evaluation, and combine them in a dataset.
- [Built-in Evaluators](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/evals/evaluators/built-in/index.md): Reference for the evaluators built into Pydantic Evals: exact match, contains, type checks, max duration, LLM judge, G-Eval, span checks and confusion matrices.
- [LLM Judge](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/evals/evaluators/llm-judge/index.md): Use an LLM as a judge in Pydantic Evals: grade outputs against a rubric with LLMJudge, get pass/fail or scores, pick the judge model and write good rubrics.
- [Third-Party Integrations](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/evals/evaluators/framework-integrations/index.md): Use scoring libraries such as Ragas and DeepEval inside Pydantic Evals by wrapping their metrics as evaluators, without a hard dependency on any framework.
- [Custom Evaluators](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/evals/evaluators/custom/index.md): Write custom Pydantic Evals evaluators for domain-specific logic, external integrations or specialized metrics by subclassing Evaluator and defining evaluate.
- [Report Evaluators](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/evals/evaluators/report-evaluators/index.md): Compute experiment-wide metrics with Pydantic Evals report evaluators: confusion matrices, precision-recall and ROC curves with AUC, accuracy and custom tables.
- [Span-Based](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/evals/evaluators/span-based/index.md): Evaluate how an AI system behaved, not only what it returned, by querying the OpenTelemetry spans from a run with span-based evaluators in Pydantic Evals.
- [Agentic Evaluators](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/evals/evaluators/agentic/index.md): Evaluate AI agent tool calls with Pydantic Evals: check the agent called the right tools, in the right order, with the right arguments and within budget.
- [Standard Quality Metrics](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/evals/evaluators/standard-quality-metrics/index.md): Score LLM outputs with G-Eval in Pydantic Evals, plus LLM judge rubrics for RAG faithfulness, answer relevance, context precision and recall, and translation.
- [Online Evaluation](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/evals/online-evaluation/index.md): Evaluate Pydantic AI agents and functions in production with Pydantic Evals: score every call or a sample in the background and emit OpenTelemetry events.

### How-To Guides

- [Logfire Integration](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/evals/how-to/logfire-integration/index.md): Send Pydantic Evals experiments to Pydantic Logfire to view results, inspect each case and its full trace, and compare evaluation runs over time.
- [Dataset Management](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/evals/how-to/dataset-management/index.md): Build Pydantic Evals datasets in Python or YAML and JSON files, add cases as you find bugs, and generate synthetic test cases from a typed schema with an LLM.
- [Dataset Serialization](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/evals/how-to/dataset-serialization/index.md): Save and load Pydantic Evals datasets as YAML or JSON files, load custom evaluators with custom_evaluator_types, and get IDE autocomplete from a JSON Schema.
- [Concurrency & Performance](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/evals/how-to/concurrency/index.md): Control how many Pydantic Evals cases run in parallel with max_concurrency, to balance evaluation throughput against provider rate limits and resource use.
- [Multi-Run Evaluation](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/evals/how-to/multi-run/index.md): Run each Pydantic Evals case several times with the repeat parameter to measure the variability of a non-deterministic LLM system and average scores per case.
- [Retry Strategies](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/evals/how-to/retry-strategies/index.md): Retry rate-limited or timed-out tasks and LLM judge evaluators in Pydantic Evals, with Tenacity stop conditions and exponential backoff passed to evaluate().
- [Metrics & Attributes](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/evals/how-to/metrics-attributes/index.md): Track tokens, cost, API calls and custom metrics per case in Pydantic Evals, check them in evaluators, and tag experiments with model and prompt metadata.
- [Case Lifecycle Hooks](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/evals/how-to/lifecycle/index.md): Control per-case setup, context preparation and teardown in a Pydantic Evals run with CaseLifecycle hooks, such as creating a database for each case.
- [Simple Validation](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/evals/examples/simple-validation/index.md): A worked Pydantic Evals example: test a title-case function with deterministic evaluators, save the dataset to YAML, and run the evaluation from pytest in CI.

## Pydantic Graph

- [Overview](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/graph/graph/index.md): Model complex workflows as typed graphs and state machines with pydantic-graph, an async graph library for Python where nodes and edges come from type hints.

### Graph Builder

- [Getting Started](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/graph/builder/index.md): Build typed workflow graphs with the pydantic-graph GraphBuilder API: async steps, conditional branching, parallel fan-out, joins and Mermaid diagrams.
- [Steps](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/graph/builder/steps/index.md): Define steps in a pydantic-graph workflow: async functions that read state, dependencies and inputs from StepContext, plus streaming steps that yield values.
- [Joins & Reducers](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/graph/builder/joins/index.md): Synchronize and aggregate results from parallel paths in a pydantic-graph workflow with join nodes and reducers that combine many inputs into one output.
- [Decisions](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/graph/builder/decisions/index.md): Add conditional branching to a pydantic-graph workflow with decision nodes, routing data on its type or value to the next step in the graph builder API.
- [Parallel Execution](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/graph/builder/parallel/index.md): Run steps in parallel in a pydantic-graph workflow by broadcasting one value to several steps or mapping over a collection, using the graph builder API.

## Examples

- [Setup](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/examples/setup/index.md): Install and run the Pydantic AI examples, from setting model provider environment variables to running each example script with uv or pip.

### Getting Started

- [Pydantic Model](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/examples/getting-started/pydantic-model/index.md): A simple Pydantic AI example that constructs a validated Pydantic model from free-form text input, using structured output with any supported model.
- [Weather Agent](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/examples/getting-started/weather-agent/index.md): A Pydantic AI tool calling example: a weather agent chains geocoding and weather API tools to answer a question, plus a Gradio chat UI for it.

### Conversational Agents

- [Chat App with FastAPI](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/examples/conversational-agents/chat-app/index.md): Build a simple chat app with FastAPI and Pydantic AI that stores chat history between requests, serializes messages, and streams responses to the browser.
- [Bank Support](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/examples/conversational-agents/bank-support/index.md): A small but complete Pydantic AI example of a support agent for a bank, using dynamic instructions, structured output and tools.

### Data & Analytics

- [SQL Generation](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/examples/data-analytics/sql-gen/index.md): A Pydantic AI text-to-SQL example that turns user requests into PostgreSQL queries, with an output validator that checks each query using EXPLAIN.
- [Data Analyst](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/examples/data-analytics/data-analyst/index.md): A Pydantic AI data analyst agent example that loads a Hugging Face dataset into pandas and queries it with DuckDB SQL, sharing DataFrames between tools in deps.
- [RAG](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/examples/data-analytics/rag/index.md): A Pydantic AI RAG example that answers questions about documentation using vector search with pgvector and OpenAI embeddings, exposed to the agent as a tool.
- [TwelveLabs Video Agent](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/examples/data-analytics/twelvelabs-video-agent/index.md): A Pydantic AI example of a video analyst agent that answers questions about a video by calling TwelveLabs Pegasus, a video understanding model, as a tool.

### Streaming

- [Stream Markdown](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/examples/streaming/stream-markdown/index.md): A Pydantic AI example that streams Markdown from an agent and highlights it in the terminal with the rich library, running with OpenAI and Gemini models.
- [Stream Whales](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/examples/streaming/stream-whales/index.md): A Pydantic AI example that streams structured output about whales, validating the data as it arrives and displaying it as a live table with rich.
- [Cancel and Resume](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/examples/streaming/cancellation/index.md): A Pydantic AI example that cancels a streaming agent run from an interactive terminal and resumes the conversation with the history preserved before cancellation.

### Realtime

- [Voice Assistant](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/examples/realtime/realtime-voice/index.md): A Pydantic AI voice assistant example that streams your microphone to OpenAI's gpt-realtime model, calls tools mid-conversation and supports barge-in.
- [Text to Audio](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/examples/realtime/realtime-text-to-audio/index.md): The smallest Pydantic AI realtime example: send text to OpenAI's gpt-realtime model, stream the spoken reply and save it as a WAV file, no microphone needed.
- [Agent Handoff](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/examples/realtime/realtime-handoff/index.md): A Pydantic AI example where a realtime voice model runs a support call, then hands its message history to a regular agent for structured output.
- [Camera Agent](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/examples/realtime/realtime-camera/index.md): A Pydantic AI realtime camera example that streams mic audio and webcam frames to Gemini Live or OpenAI Realtime, with web search and spoken, captioned answers.
- [Browser WebRTC](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/examples/realtime/realtime-webrtc/index.md): A Pydantic AI browser voice agent example: audio goes to OpenAI or Azure Realtime over WebRTC while a server sideband runs tools and keeps the API key private.

### Complex Workflows

- [Flight Booking](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/examples/complex-workflows/flight-booking/index.md): A multi-agent Pydantic AI example: a flight search agent delegates extraction to a second agent, then hands off to a third that parses the user's seat choice.
- [Medical Agent Delegation](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/examples/complex-workflows/medical-agent-delegation/index.md): A multi-agent Pydantic AI example where a medical triage agent delegates to specialist agents through tools and combines their structured reports.
- [Business Applications](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/examples/slack-lead-qualifier/index.md): Build and deploy a Pydantic AI agent on Modal that researches new Slack community members, qualifies them as leads, and posts daily summaries to Slack.
- [UI Examples](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/examples/ag-ui/index.md): Run Pydantic AI agents in the AG-UI Dojo example app to see the AG-UI protocol in action, with tools, shared state and human-in-the-loop interactions.

## Comparisons

- [Overview](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/comparisons/overview/index.md): Pydantic AI compared with LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Google ADK, Vercel AI SDK, Mastra, Agno, LiveKit, Pipecat and Pi.
- [Migrate to Pydantic AI](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/comparisons/migrate-from-other-frameworks/index.md): Migrate an agent app from LangChain, LangGraph, the OpenAI Agents SDK, Google ADK, Mastra and other frameworks to Pydantic AI with bundled coding agent skills.
- [vs LangChain & LangGraph](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/comparisons/vs-langchain-langgraph/index.md)
- [vs Claude Agent SDK](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/comparisons/vs-claude-agent-sdk/index.md)
- [vs Vercel AI SDK](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/comparisons/vs-vercel-ai-sdk/index.md)
- [vs OpenAI Agents SDK](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/comparisons/vs-openai-agents-sdk/index.md)
- [vs Google ADK](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/comparisons/vs-google-adk/index.md)
- [vs Mastra](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/comparisons/vs-mastra/index.md)
- [vs LiveKit Agents](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/comparisons/vs-livekit/index.md)
- [vs Pipecat](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/comparisons/vs-pipecat/index.md)
- [vs Pi](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/comparisons/vs-pi/index.md)
- [vs Agno](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/comparisons/vs-agno/index.md)
- [vs CrewAI](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/comparisons/vs-crewai/index.md)

## API Reference

### pydantic_ai

- [agent](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/agent/index.md)
- [native_tools](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/native_tools/index.md)
- [capabilities](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/capabilities/index.md)
- [common_tools](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/common_tools/index.md)
- [concurrency](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/concurrency/index.md)
- [direct](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/direct/index.md)
- [durable_exec](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/durable_exec/index.md)
- [embeddings](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/embeddings/index.md)
- [exceptions](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/exceptions/index.md)
- [ext](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/ext/index.md)
- [format_prompt](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/format_prompt/index.md)
- [function_signature](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/function_signature/index.md)
- [images](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/images/index.md)
- [mcp](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/mcp/index.md)
- [messages](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/messages/index.md)

#### models

- [anthropic](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/anthropic/index.md)
- [base](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/base/index.md)
- [bedrock](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/bedrock/index.md)
- [bedrock_mantle](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/bedrock_mantle/index.md)
- [cerebras](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/cerebras/index.md)
- [cohere](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/cohere/index.md)
- [crusoe](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/crusoe/index.md)
- [fallback](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/fallback/index.md)
- [function](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/function/index.md)
- [google](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/google/index.md)
- [github_copilot](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/github_copilot/index.md)
- [xai](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/xai/index.md)
- [groq](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/groq/index.md)
- [huggingface](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/huggingface/index.md)
- [instrumented](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/instrumented/index.md)
- [mcp-sampling](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/mcp-sampling/index.md)
- [mistral](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/mistral/index.md)
- [ollama](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/ollama/index.md)
- [openai](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/openai/index.md)
- [openai_codex](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/openai_codex/index.md)
- [openrouter](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/openrouter/index.md)
- [snowflake](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/snowflake/index.md)
- [test](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/test/index.md)
- [decision](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/decision/index.md)
- [system_one](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/system_one/index.md)
- [typesafe](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/typesafe/index.md)
- [zai](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/zai/index.md)
- [wrapper](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/models/wrapper/index.md)
- [output](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/output/index.md)
- [profiles](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/profiles/index.md)
- [providers](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/providers/index.md)
- [realtime](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/realtime/index.md)

#### realtime

- [codec](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/realtime/codec/index.md)
- [openai](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/realtime/openai/index.md)
- [live](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/realtime/openai_live/index.md)
- [google](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/realtime/google/index.md)
- [xai](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/realtime/xai/index.md)
- [azure](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/realtime/azure/index.md)
- [result](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/result/index.md)
- [retries](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/retries/index.md)
- [run](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/run/index.md)
- [workspaces](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/workspaces/index.md)
- [settings](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/settings/index.md)
- [template](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/template/index.md)
- [tools](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/tools/index.md)
- [toolsets](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/toolsets/index.md)

#### ui

- [ag_ui](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/ui/ag_ui/index.md)
- [base](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/ui/base/index.md)
- [vercel_ai](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/ui/vercel_ai/index.md)
- [usage](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/usage/index.md)

### pydantic_evals

- [pydantic_evals.dataset](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic_evals/dataset/index.md)
- [pydantic_evals.evaluators](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic_evals/evaluators/index.md)
- [pydantic_evals.lifecycle](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic_evals/lifecycle/index.md)
- [pydantic_evals.online](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic_evals/online/index.md)
- [pydantic_evals.online_capability](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic_evals/online_capability/index.md)
- [pydantic_evals.reporting](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic_evals/reporting/index.md)
- [pydantic_evals.otel](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic_evals/otel/index.md)
- [pydantic_evals.generation](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic_evals/generation/index.md)

### pydantic_graph

- [pydantic_graph.basenode](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic_graph/basenode/index.md)
- [pydantic_graph.graph_builder](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic_graph/graph_builder/index.md)
- [pydantic_graph.step](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic_graph/step/index.md)
- [pydantic_graph.join](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic_graph/join/index.md)
- [pydantic_graph.decision](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic_graph/decision/index.md)
- [pydantic_graph.node](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic_graph/node/index.md)
- [pydantic_graph.util](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic_graph/util/index.md)
- [pydantic_graph.exceptions](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic_graph/exceptions/index.md)

## Project

- [Contributing](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/project/contributing/index.md): How to contribute to Pydantic AI: agree an approach before opening a PR, what to expect in review, dev setup and tests, and rules for adding model providers.
- [Upgrade Guide](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/project/changelog/index.md): Pydantic AI upgrade guide and changelog: the breaking changes in each release, how to install V2, and the recommended path to migrate your code from V1.
- [V1 → V2 Migration Map](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/overview/migration/index.md): Migrate Pydantic AI V1 code to V2: a lookup table of renamed and removed APIs, packaging changes and default behavior changes, alongside the full Upgrade Guide.
- [Version Policy](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/project/version-policy/index.md): Pydantic AI's version policy: no intentional breaking changes in minor releases, how deprecations work, and when the next major version can ship after V2.