Guidance
by Microsoft · open-source · Last verified 2026-03-17
Microsoft's language for controlling LLMs with interleaved generation and prompting. Supports constrained output via token healing, regex constraints, and context-free grammars for reliable generation.
https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance ↗C+
C+—Average
Adoption: C+Quality: AFreshness: B+Citations: BEngagement: F
Specifications
- License
- MIT
- Pricing
- open-source
- Capabilities
- constrained-generation, token-healing, interleaved-prompting, regex-constraints, stateful-control
- Integrations
- openai, hugging-face, llama-cpp, anthropic
- Use Cases
- structured-output, reliable-generation, template-filling, multi-step-reasoning
- API Available
- Yes
- SDK Languages
- python
- Deployment
- self-hosted
- Rate Limits
- N/A (open-source)
- Data Privacy
- Self-hosted, user-managed
- Tags
- llm-programming, constrained-generation, templating, microsoft
- Added
- 2026-03-17
- Completeness
- 100%
Index Score
55.85Adoption
58
Quality
82
Freshness
72
Citations
65
Engagement
0