Challenges with structured output

1. Populating complex, nested schemas
2. Updating existing schemas without information loss

1. Generating complex, nested schemas
2. Updating existing schemas without information loss
3. Generating + updating

Practically, we see these issues come:

https://github.com/langchain-ai/langmem

Trustcall

• JSON Patch: Update, add, or delete items within a JSON structure w/o replacing entire doc
  • Cheaper
  • No undesired deletions

https://github.com/hinthornw/trustcall

Type-safe generation of complex schemas

• https://github.com/hinthornw/trustcall?tab=readme-ov-file#complex-schema

Generating the correct edits to existing schemas

• https://github.com/hinthornw/trustcall?tab=readme-ov-file#updating-schemas

Simultaneous updates & insertions

• https://github.com/hinthornw/trustcall?tab=readme-ov-file#simultanous-updates--insertions