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Problem: MessagesParams.container only accepts a string ID, so a Skills payload like container={"skills": [...]} fails Pydantic validation before it is sent to Anthropic.

Change: Accept str | object. String IDs and omitted/None still work; a container object with skills is forwarded on the native Anthropic Messages path (streaming, non-streaming, and output_format). Malformed skill entries fail validation. Other providers still reject container.

Test: Unit tests cover schema validation and mocked Anthropic dispatch. Integration tests were left unchanged.

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Relevant issues

Fixes #1396

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  • New Features

    • Added support for passing container objects with optional Skills in Messages requests.
    • Supports creating skill-enabled containers or reusing existing containers.
    • Added validation for supported container and Skill configurations.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance and examples for downloading generated outputs using containers and Skills.
    • Clarified that application owners manage authorisation, persistence and clean-up.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Ensured supported providers forward container Skills across synchronous, asynchronous, streaming and structured-output requests.
    • Added clear handling for unsupported container configurations.

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The Messages API now accepts string container IDs or validated container objects with optional IDs and Anthropic or custom Skills. Native Anthropic paths forward these objects for standard, streaming, structured-output, and SDK requests. Documentation and provider capability tests cover the new behaviour.

Container Skills support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Container validation contract
src/any_llm/types/messages.py, tests/unit/test_messages.py
MessagesParams.container accepts string IDs or validated objects with optional id and skills fields. Invalid Skills and unsupported values raise validation errors.
Messages API forwarding
src/any_llm/api.py, src/any_llm/any_llm.py, src/any_llm/providers/anthropic/base.py, tests/unit/providers/test_anthropic_messages.py, tests/unit/providers/test_otari_provider.py
Synchronous and asynchronous Messages APIs document and accept object-shaped containers. Provider paths forward containers for standard, streaming, structured-output, and SDK requests.
Capability boundaries and usage documentation
docs/files.md, tests/unit/providers/test_meta_provider.py
Documentation covers fresh and reused Skill containers. Unsupported bridged providers reject container objects explicitly.
Integration validation
tests/integration/test_messages.py
An integration test sends a Skills container with a typed output format and validates the parsed response.

Suggested reviewers: njbrake

Priority: ➖ Normal

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c3495

Skills container requests with typed output can fail validation without causing the integration test to fail, leaving this new API path insufficiently protected. Re-raise these errors before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The changes implement the main [#1396] API, validation, native dispatch, provider rejection, and documentation objectives. However, _MessageContainer.id is declared as str | None without constrain… Add the required id validation that matches the documented Anthropic contract and make the validation tests pass. Add a credential-gated or recorded integration test that verifies Skill execution, generated file references, and download t…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 33.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 33 functions across 9 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
✅ Passed checks (3 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title is concise, specific, and accurately describes the main change: support for Anthropic container objects used with Skills.
Description check ✅ Passed The description follows the required template, identifies the change and issue, lists the feature and documentation types, records completed checklist items, and includes AI usage information. However…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes stay within [#1396]. The schema, provider dispatch, capability checks, tests, and documentation support object-shaped Anthropic containers. The changes do not add Skills management APIs, a…
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Explanation

The changes implement the main [#1396] API, validation, native dispatch, provider rejection, and documentation objectives. However, _MessageContainer.id is declared as str | None without constraints, so empty and oversized IDs are accepted although the added unit-test summary identifies them as invalid. The new integration test checks typed output only. It does not cover generated file references and download through the public Files API, as required by [#1396] when that API is available.

Resolution

Add the required id validation that matches the documented Anthropic contract and make the validation tests pass. Add a credential-gated or recorded integration test that verifies Skill execution, generated file references, and download through the public Files API, or provide reviewable evidence that this coverage is not yet possible because the API is unavailable.

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In `@src/any_llm/any_llm.py`:
- Around line 857-863: Extend the native Anthropic test coverage for the public
AnyLLM.messages and AnyLLM.amessages entrypoints. Pass an object-shaped
container through each facade, mock or inspect the native provider request, and
assert that the container is forwarded unchanged; retain existing
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In `@tests/unit/test_messages.py`:
- Line 155: Add ValidationError assertions to
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🟠 Major · Use a container-capable GA request path for typed structured output. · base.py:348-350

src/any_llm/providers/anthropic/base.py:348-350
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use a container-capable GA request path for typed structured output.

MessagesParams.model_dump() includes container, and the ordinary path selects self.client.messages. The Anthropic GA AsyncMessages.parse signature does not accept container, so a typed output_format request with a Skills container can raise TypeError before the HTTP request. GA messages.create accepts the container.

Use GA messages.create with an output_config derived from the typed output_format, then pass its response through the existing build_parsed_message path. This preserves both structured output and the container. The test at tests/unit/providers/test_anthropic_messages.py:336-379 mocks messages.parse, so it only checks the forwarded keyword and cannot detect the real SDK signature mismatch.

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In `@src/any_llm/providers/anthropic/base.py` around lines 348 - 350, Update the
typed structured-output branch in _translating_nonstreaming_guard to use the GA
messages.create request path with an output_config derived from
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MessagesParams.container was string-only, so a skills payload failed
validation before the native Anthropic path. Accept str | object, keep
string IDs, and reject malformed skill entries.
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🟡 Minor · Enforce the Anthropic skill limits locally. · messages.py:109-121

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Enforce the Anthropic skill limits locally. The Anthropic Messages API requires skill_id and version to contain 1–64 characters. It limits container.skills to 20 entries. The current _MessageContainerSkill and _MessageContainer models accept empty or overlong strings and lists with more than 20 entries. _normalize_container then serialises these values and forwards them to the Anthropic request, so Anthropic can reject the request downstream instead of the caller receiving a local validation error.

Add min_length=1 and max_length=64 to both string fields, and max_length=20 to skills. These constraints are the single required correction for this contract gap.

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version fields with 1–64 character constraints, and update
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The reuse example in docs/files.md referenced an undefined `history`, and
tests/docs executes every python block under docs/, so the docs job failed
with NameError. The new integration test read `parsed_output` off the
`amessages` union without narrowing it, which mypy rejects, and it omitted the
code execution tool that Anthropic requires whenever a container loads Skills,
so the request could not succeed once the capability skip was removed.

Also close the provider client in a finally, drop a no-op except clause, reject
a container object that sets neither id nor skills instead of sending an empty
object, remove the unreachable _MessageContainer branch, and cover the beta
parse leg, which does accept container.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Resolve a semantic conflict that git merges without reporting. mozilla-ai#1379 rewrote
`_amessages` to build a single `api_kwargs` up front and removed the separate
`native_kwargs` this branch's Skills container block referenced, so the merge
was textually clean but left an undefined name. Both dicts are built with the
same exclusions inside the `output_format` branch, so the block now uses
`api_kwargs`.

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Approving.

Anthropic accepts a Skills container alongside output_config on a single messages.create; the live integration test passed on real credentials. GA parse has no container parameter on 0.125 or 1.7, so the create bypass is justified and survives the #1370 bump. Validation limits match the documented contract: 20 skills, skill_id and version 1 to 64 characters.

Two commits pushed to this branch: CI fixes (undefined history in the docs example, a mypy narrowing error, the code execution tool Skills require, client cleanup), plus a merge of main resolving a semantic conflict where #1379 removed the native_kwargs this branch referenced.

_MessageContainer sets extra="forbid" where sibling fields are dict[str, Any], so a new ContainerParams field will need a model update.

#1396's Skill-execution and Files-download coverage is not in this PR.

Note: this review was drafted by Claude Opus 5 via back-and-forth with @njbrake. The reasoning and decisions are his; the prose is Claude's.

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