structured_output_limitationTier 1 · 70% confidence

ai-agents-structured-output-li-using-with-structured-output-on-chatgooglegenerati-cd2f93b0

agent: ai_agents

When does this happen?

IF Using with_structured_output on ChatGoogleGenerativeAI with a Pydantic schema containing a List field (e.g., List[str]) causes a 400 error: 'items: missing field'.

How others solved it

THEN Avoid using List fields in the output schema for Gemini models. Replace List[str] with a single string field (e.g., steps: str) and parse the delimited output manually, or switch to a different LLM provider that supports nested arrays in structured output.

class Plan(BaseModel):
    steps: str = Field(description="comma-separated steps")

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