claudette-pydantic

Adds Pydantic support for claudette through function calling

claudette_pydantic provides the struct method in the Client and Chat of claudette

struct provides a wrapper around __call__. Provide a Pydantic BaseModel as schema, and the model will return an initialized BaseModel object.

I’ve found Haiku to be quite reliable at even complicated schemas.

Install

pip install claudette_pydantic

Getting Started

from claudette.core import *
import claudette_pydantic # patches claudette with `struct`
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
from typing import Literal, Union, List

model = models[-1]
model

'claude-3-haiku-20240307'

class Pet(BaseModel):
    "Create a new pet"
    name: str
    age: int
    owner: str = Field(default="NA", description="Owner name. Do not return if not given.")
    type: Literal['dog', 'cat', 'mouse']

c = Client(model)
print(repr(c.struct(msgs="Can you make a pet for my dog Mac? He's 14 years old", resp_model=Pet)))
print(repr(c.struct(msgs="Tom: my cat is juma and he's 16 years old", resp_model=Pet)))

Pet(name='Mac', age=14, owner='NA', type='dog')
Pet(name='juma', age=16, owner='Tom', type='cat')

Going Deeper

I pulled this example from pydantic docs has a list of discriminated unions, shown by pet_type. For each object the model is required to return different things.

You should be able to use the full power of Pydantic here. I’ve found that instructor for Claude fails on this example.

Each sub BaseModel may also have docstrings describing usage. I’ve found prompting this way to be quite reliable.

class Cat(BaseModel):
    pet_type: Literal['cat']
    meows: int


class Dog(BaseModel):
    pet_type: Literal['dog']
    barks: float


class Reptile(BaseModel):
    pet_type: Literal['lizard', 'dragon']
    scales: bool

# Dummy to show doc strings
class Create(BaseModel):
    "Pass as final member of the `pet` list to indicate success"
    pet_type: Literal['create']

class OwnersPets(BaseModel):
    """
    Information for to gather for an Owner's pets
    """
    pet: List[Union[Cat, Dog, Reptile, Create]] = Field(..., discriminator='pet_type')

chat = Chat(model)
pr = "hello I am a new owner and I would like to add some pets for me. I have a dog which has 6 barks, a dragon with no scales, and a cat with 2 meows"
print(repr(chat.struct(OwnersPets, pr=pr)))
print(repr(chat.struct(OwnersPets, pr="actually my dragon does have scales, can you change that for me?")))

OwnersPets(pet=[Dog(pet_type='dog', barks=6.0), Reptile(pet_type='dragon', scales=False), Cat(pet_type='cat', meows=2), Create(pet_type='create')])
OwnersPets(pet=[Dog(pet_type='dog', barks=6.0), Reptile(pet_type='dragon', scales=True), Cat(pet_type='cat', meows=2), Create(pet_type='create')])

While the struct uses tool use to enforce the schema, we save in history as the repr response to keep the user,assistant,user flow.

chat.h

[{'role': 'user',
  'content': [{'type': 'text',
    'text': 'hello I am a new owner and I would like to add some pets for me. I have a dog which has 6 barks, a dragon with no scales, and a cat with 2 meows'}]},
 {'role': 'assistant',
  'content': [{'type': 'text',
    'text': "OwnersPets(pet=[Dog(pet_type='dog', barks=6.0), Reptile(pet_type='dragon', scales=False), Cat(pet_type='cat', meows=2), Create(pet_type='create')])"}]},
 {'role': 'user',
  'content': [{'type': 'text',
    'text': 'actually my dragon does have scales, can you change that for me?'}]},
 {'role': 'assistant',
  'content': [{'type': 'text',
    'text': "OwnersPets(pet=[Dog(pet_type='dog', barks=6.0), Reptile(pet_type='dragon', scales=True), Cat(pet_type='cat', meows=2), Create(pet_type='create')])"}]}]

Alternatively you can use struct as tool use flow with treat_as_output=False (but requires the next input to be assistant)

chat.struct(OwnersPets, pr=pr, treat_as_output=False)
chat.h[-3:]

[{'role': 'user',
  'content': [{'type': 'text',
    'text': 'hello I am a new owner and I would like to add some pets for me. I have a dog which has 6 barks, a dragon with no scales, and a cat with 2 meows'}]},
 {'role': 'assistant',
  'content': [ToolUseBlock(id='toolu_015ggQ1iH6BxBffd7erj3rjR', input={'pet': [{'pet_type': 'dog', 'barks': 6.0}, {'pet_type': 'dragon', 'scales': False}, {'pet_type': 'cat', 'meows': 2}]}, name='OwnersPets', type='tool_use')]},
 {'role': 'user',
  'content': [{'type': 'tool_result',
    'tool_use_id': 'toolu_015ggQ1iH6BxBffd7erj3rjR',
    'content': "OwnersPets(pet=[Dog(pet_type='dog', barks=6.0), Reptile(pet_type='dragon', scales=False), Cat(pet_type='cat', meows=2)])"}]}]

(So I couldn’t prompt it again here, next input would have to be an assistant)

User Creation & few-shot examples

You can even add few shot examples for each input

class User(BaseModel):
    "User creation tool"
    age: int = Field(description='Age of the user')
    name: str = Field(title='Username')
    password: str = Field(
        json_schema_extra={
            'title': 'Password',
            'description': 'Password of the user',
            'examples': ['Monkey!123'],
        }
    )
print(repr(c.struct(msgs=["Can you create me a new user for tom age 22"], resp_model=User, sp="for a given user, generate a similar password based on examples")))

User(age=22, name='tom', password='Monkey!123')

Uses the few-shot example as asked for in the system prompt.

You can find more examples nbs/examples

Signature:

Client.struct(
    self: claudette.core.Client,
    msgs: list,
    resp_model: type[BaseModel], # non-initialized Pydantic BaseModel
    **, # Client.__call__ kwargs...
) -> BaseModel

Chat.struct(
    self: claudette.core.Chat,
    resp_model: type[BaseModel], # non-initialized Pydantic BaseModel
    treat_as_output=True, # In chat history, tool is reflected
    **, # Chat.__call__ kwargs...
) -> BaseModel