SMRTR AIJul 22, 2026Daily.dev

Onboarding Agent from Scratch. Part 3: A Shape the Model Can’t Break

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Stage 3 of this onboarding AI agent series solves a core problem: AI models asked to "respond in JSON" often don't follow through consistently. By forcing structured output through the API using tool_choice, the response is guaranteed to always return three fields — answer, source, and confidence — not just requested. This makes the agent's output reliable enough for other code to act on automatically.

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