@maxanstey-meridian/tandem 0.1.3 → 0.1.4

package/README.md

@@ -62,6 +62,11 @@ capabilities, interactions, persistence, and complete examples.
 
 Licensed under the [MIT License](./LICENSE).
 
+For a specialised model that requires a plain user message, a raw-output agent
+can set both `instructions` and `output.instructions` to `""`. Tandem then sends
+the authored message without system instructions or a response-format constraint.
+Other agent/output modes still require nonblank instructions.
+
 ## Development and publishing
 
 ```sh

package/dist/index.js

@@ -576,7 +576,10 @@ class AgentImplementation extends NodeImplementation {
     }
 }
 export function agent(definition) {
-    requireInstructions(definition.instructions, `Agent '${definition.id}' instructions`);
+    const rawOutput = definition.output && "raw" in definition.output && definition.output.raw === true;
+    if (!rawOutput || typeof definition.instructions !== "string") {
+        requireInstructions(definition.instructions, `Agent '${definition.id}' instructions`);
+    }
     const reasoningEffort = definition.reasoning?.effort;
     const reasoningMaxTokens = definition.reasoning?.maxTokens;
     if (definition.reasoning &&
@@ -595,7 +598,9 @@ export function agent(definition) {
         }
     }
     if (definition.output) {
-        requireInstructions(definition.output.instructions, `Agent '${definition.id}' output instructions`);
+        if (!rawOutput || typeof definition.output.instructions !== "string") {
+            requireInstructions(definition.output.instructions, `Agent '${definition.id}' output instructions`);
+        }
         if ("raw" in definition.output) {
             if (definition.output.raw !== true) {
                 throw new TandemError(`Agent '${definition.id}' output raw must be true.`);

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@maxanstey-meridian/tandem",
-  "version": "0.1.3",
+  "version": "0.1.4",
   "description": "TypeScript authoring API for Tandem agentic pipelines",
   "homepage": "https://github.com/maxanstey-meridian/tandem-ts#readme",
   "license": "MIT",