Emrys-Merlin/agent-skills

Build with TypeSafe

TypeSafe makes units of AI intelligence usable like programming primitives: small judgments you can compose into larger capabilities. Its System One models return fast, focused judgments that software can consume directly. Jev is TypeSafe's flagship and first System One model. It understands natural language and returns typed answers and probabilities rather than generating text or reasoning explanations. Code owns the workflow; the model supplies programmable common sense where ordinary code needs semantic understanding.

Call Jev through OpenRouter

This variant of the skill calls Jev through OpenRouter, not through TypeSafe's own API. TypeSafe's docs remain the reference for concepts and question design; only access, model IDs, and billing differ.

• Credential: an OpenRouter API key, billed to the OpenRouter account. No TypeSafe account is needed. Read it from the environment (OPENROUTER_API_KEY, or TYPESAFE_API_KEY set to the OpenRouter key); never hard-code it, and keep it server-side in web apps.
• System One API (default): POST https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/systemone with Authorization: Bearer <OpenRouter key>. It implements TypeSafe's request and response shapes and adds id, provider, and usage.cost to the response.
• TypeSafe SDKs (@typesafe-ai/sdk, typesafe_sdk): set the base URL to https://openrouter.ai/api (the SDK appends /v1/systemone) via baseURL / base_url or TYPESAFE_BASE_URL, and pass the OpenRouter key via apiKey / api_key or TYPESAFE_API_KEY. Everything else follows TypeSafe's SDK docs.
• Do not call the SDK's model listing (client.models.list()): on OpenRouter it hits OpenRouter's Models API, whose response shape the SDK rejects.
• Model IDs: jev-1.14 (current), jev-1.13, or jev-latest; bare IDs map to typesafe/jev-… and ~typesafe/jev-latest. Pin a version for reproducible thresholds. Check the TypeSafe models on OpenRouter for current versions, prices, and context length; the response's model field names the exact version that served the request.
• Box (locate a described target in an image in state) needs jev-1.14 or later; 1.13 rejects it with a 400. Box always returns edges, so pair it with a Noul when the target may be absent.
• Alternative surface: OpenRouter's own Decisions API (POST https://openrouter.ai/api/alpha/decisions) and its TypeScript, Python, and Go SDKs. Prefer it only when the project already uses the OpenRouter SDK.
• Not Jev's typed API: typesafe/jev-router is a chat-completions router that uses Jev to pick another LLM. It returns generated text, not typed answers, so it does not fit the patterns in this skill.
• Cloud and sandboxed sessions: the network allowlist must include openrouter.ai; store the key as a secret, not a plain environment variable.

OpenRouter docs: Jev on OpenRouter, TypeSafe SDK on OpenRouter, Jev tutorial, and the docs index (search it for "Jev" to find the cookbooks). When the OpenRouter and TypeSafe docs disagree about access, endpoints, model IDs, or pricing, OpenRouter's docs win for this setup.

Read the live docs

The live TypeSafe docs are the source of truth. Read them as part of the task. This skill gives direction; the docs carry current concepts, prompting guidance, API contracts, SDK usage, models, limits, and worked examples.

• Start with the documentation index to discover relevant pages and cookbooks. Use targeted reads rather than loading the entire site.
• Mintlify serves Markdown by appending .md to a page path, for example how to build with TypeSafe. Follow links from the index; convert extensionless documentation page links to .md when useful. Resolve relative links against https://docs.typesafe.ai.
• Before writing an integration, read the current API or chosen SDK page and the question guidance relevant to the design. For a new workflow, also inspect the closest cookbook: it often shows a better decomposition than a generic classifier.
• If the index is unavailable, use the direct links below or the site's navigation. If Markdown fetching fails, try the normal page. If live access is unavailable, use available local docs or installed SDK types, state that limitation, and avoid inventing version-dependent details.

Task	Start here; follow the relevant details
Understand the programming model	System One, building guide
Explore what to build	Use-case map, then relevant cookbooks from the index
Prepare inputs and questions	State, primitives, then the chosen primitive's page
Decide how to handle uncertainty	Confidence
Write API code	TypeSafe SDK on OpenRouter first, then HTTP API, Python SDK, or JavaScript SDK for request shapes, with OpenRouter's base URL and key
Find OpenRouter cookbooks	Tool-call gating, verified cascade, classification at scale, permission-prompt auto-approval
Update an older integration	Migration guide and the installed SDK's current reference

Find the useful shape

Start from the behavior the user wants: what will the application show, select, change, or hand off? Work backward to the judgments it needs. Keep known rules, calculations, exact lookups, and execution in code. Preserve the user's chosen stack and scope; add TypeSafe where semantic understanding helps.

When brainstorming or choosing an architecture, consider more than classification. The patterns below are starting points: combine primitives around the user's goal, including ideas that do not fit an established recipe.

• Route and fill known arguments. A request can select a handler and its typed parameters. Ask useful branch-specific questions up front and consume only the relevant answers. Explore function calling and speculative fan-out.
• Select instead of generate. Find candidate values or source spans in code, use a judgment to select the intended one, then copy or normalize it. Code can also assemble source text into a formatted document or reading guide. Explore value extraction and structure recovery.
• Find and judge evidence. Retrieve candidates, compare their relevance to a query, and select useful context. Explore reranking and hierarchical classification.
• Turn judgments into reusable data. Score dimensions once, then let code or user controls change weights, thresholds, rankings, and views. With labeled outcomes, those signals can become classical ML features. Explore composite scoring and feature discovery.
• Verify and escalate. Check specific claims or fields against their evidence; send uncertain or failing cases to a person or reasoning model. Explore citation checks and extraction cascades.
• Respond to changing state. Code can retain goals and observations while fresh judgments guide the next bounded step. Keep inferred state distinct from observed facts, and check freshness before applying a result to a changed situation.

For open-ended requests, offer the few directions that best serve the user's goal and recommend a starting point. For a concrete request, choose the relevant pattern and build; a brainstorm is not a mandatory detour.

Design the judgments

Choose by what the answer means, then read the relevant primitive page:

Need	Primitive	Important distinction
One of a defined set	Choice	Picks one option; its distribution compares competing options
Whether a condition holds	Noul	Probability of yes; no separate confidence; use one per label when several may apply
Degree along a described dimension	Score	Probability-weighted position on ordered levels; use comparable per-item Scores for graded ranking
Where a described target is in an image	Box	Jev 1.14+ only; no criteria; always returns edges, so ask a Noul for presence

Give each question enough relevant state to answer: source text, identities, relationships, policies, and current facts. Prefer named JSON fields when context has several parts. Put the judgment in instructions and define its possible answers in criteria. Question IDs are for code and are not sent to the model; include complete meaning in the question. Reference nested state with backticked paths such as ticket.messages[0].text.

Ask one narrow, coherent judgment per question. Split independently useful dimensions, without destroying the relationship being judged. A bounded action selection or contextual interpretation is valid; atomic does not mean literal fact extraction or a one-sentence limit. Strings work for simple questions. Use structured objects or arrays when definitions, contrasts, exclusions, or examples clarify instructions or criteria. Score levels must describe concrete situations and stand on their own.

Keep the needed answers available. Include a no-match outcome when nothing may fit; use a separate presence judgment when it is independently useful. For source-value selection, check candidate coverage: the model cannot choose an omitted value.

Compose and verify

Ask independent questions over the same state together, including useful speculative questions. They run in parallel and cannot see one another's answers. State each speculative premise explicitly; code consumes the applicable answers. A second request is warranted when an earlier answer is needed to fetch evidence, construct new state, or determine the next options. Extra questions still use tokens; measure actual request budgets, cost, and end-to-end latency.

Use probabilities and confidence to guide behavior, with thresholds evaluated on the user's data and consequences. Choice/Score confidence summarizes distribution concentration, not overall workflow correctness or permission to act. A Noul near 0.5 means similar probability for yes and no, not medium intensity. Several acceptable alternatives can also spread probability; low confidence need not invalidate a harmless preference choice. Ignore uncertainty on unused branches.

Keep policy explicit and raw judgments reusable. Weighted scores suit compensating preferences; an “any serious violation” rule needs separate conditions. Changing a weight or display filter need not rerun inference when evidence and question meanings are unchanged. Typed output guarantees the interface, not truth. System One models are trained for calibrated decisions; validate their performance in the target domain.

Test representative cases and the resulting application behavior. For failures, inspect the exact state, questions, candidates, answers, composition, and observed outcome. Separate missing evidence, model errors, code errors, and service failures. Treat cookbook thresholds and demo results as examples to evaluate, not universal rules or permanent model limitations. Keep API credentials server-side in web apps.