Declarative and Programmatic LLM Frameworks
Parent: AI Agent Ecosystems · researched 2026-06-01T02:26:33.686Z· 27 sources · 7 concepts · skill ai-agent-engineering
AI & agent-engineering family ROUTER. Split into: ai-agents-orchestration (agent frameworks, multi-agent, memory, planning, guardrails, coding/GUI agents, autonomous loops, eval); ai-rag-retrieval (RA
ai-agent-engineering
- AI & agent-engineering family ROUTER. Split into: ai-agents-orchestration (agent frameworks, multi-agent, memory, planning, guardrails, coding/GUI agents, autonomous loops, eval); ai-rag-retrieval (RAG, iterative retrieval, vector/graph datastores); ai-llm-model-layer (training, fine-tuning, alignment/RLHF, compression, inference serving, transformer/multimodal architecture, model selection, observability); ai-mcp-sdk-prompting (MCP servers/builder, Anthropic SDK, prompt engineering, context engineering, LLM frameworks, tool-search, prompt lookup). Route to the matching sub-hub. [source]
- This hub routes to on-demand reference files under references/. See each spoke for depth. [source]
Children
- Compiled/optimized prompting (DSPy signatures/modules/compile) (frontier)
- Schema-first typed LLM functions (BAML + Schema-Aligned Parsing, codegen) (frontier)
- Constrained generation/decoding (Outlines FSM, Guidance token-healing, LMQL) (frontier)
- Type/validation structured-output libs (Instructor, Pydantic AI, Mirascope) (frontier)
- App-level structured output (strict mode, function-calling-as-extraction, validate+reask) (frontier)
- Test-driven & versioned prompting (frontier)
- When-declarative-wins decision & anti-patterns (frontier)
Frontier under this node: App-level structured output (strict mode, function-calling-as-extraction, validate+reask), Compiled/optimized prompting (DSPy signatures/modules/compile), Constrained generation/decoding (Outlines FSM, Guidance token-healing, LMQL), Schema-first typed LLM functions (BAML + Schema-Aligned Parsing, codegen), Test-driven & versioned prompting, Type/validation structured-output libs (Instructor, Pydantic AI, Mirascope), When-declarative-wins decision & anti-patterns