Guide: Building AI agents for financial services

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Guide: Building AI agents for financial services

Learn how teams at NBIM, Brex, and more build reliable AI agents with Claude on AWS Bedrock.

Guide: Building AI agents for financial services

Learn how teams at NBIM, Brex, and more build reliable AI agents with Claude on AWS Bedrock.

Structured outputs on the Claude Developer Platform

Guarantee responses match your JSON schemas and tool definitions with structured outputs.

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The Claude Developer Platform now supports structured outputs for Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.1. Available in public beta, this feature ensures API responses always match your specified JSON schemas or tool definitions.

With structured outputs, developers can eliminate schema-related parsing errors and failed tool calls by ensuring that Claude's responses conform to a defined schema—whether you're extracting data from images, orchestrating agents, or integrating with external APIs.

Building reliable applications

For developers building applications and agents in production, a single error in data formatting can cause cascading failures. Structured outputs solves this by guaranteeing your response matches the exact structure you define, without any impact to model performance. This makes Claude dependable for applications and agents where accuracy is critical, including:

Data extraction when downstream systems rely on error-free, consistent formats.
Multi-agent architectures where consistent communication between agents is critical for a performant, stable experience.
Complex search tools where multiple search fields must be filled in accurately and conform to specific patterns.

Structured outputs can be used two ways: with JSON or tools. When used with JSON, you provide your schema definition in the API request. For tools, you define your tool specifications, and Claude's output conforms to those tool definitions automatically.

The end result is a reliable output, reduced retries, and a simplified codebase that no longer needs failover logic or complex error handling.

Customer Spotlight: OpenRouter

OpenRouter provides 4M+ developers access to all major AI models through a single, unified interface.

"Structured outputs have become a really valuable part of the agentic AI stack. Agents constantly ingest and produce structured data, so Anthropic’s structured outputs close a real gap for developers. Agent workflows run reliably, every time, and teams can focus on their customers rather than debugging tool calls,” said Chris Clark, COO, OpenRouter.

Getting started

Structured outputs is now available in public beta for Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.1 on the Claude Developer Platform, with support for Haiku 4.5 coming soon. Explore our documentation for supported JSON schema types, implementation examples, and best practices.

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