Updated March 10, 2026
Atomic Agents is an open-source agent framework built on top of Instructor, designed for building AI agents with a focus on structured outputs and composability. It extends Instructor's structured output capabilities into a full agentic framework with tool use, multi-step planning, and agent orchestration, emphasizing type-safe, schema-driven agent development.
Instructor is a popular open-source library for getting structured outputs from LLMs using Pydantic models.
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