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Understand the names you will hear when teams build agentic systems.
Output Parser
An output parser converts or validates model output into the format an application expects.
Think of it like
Think of Output Parser as infrastructure glue: it does not replace the model, but helps applications connect pieces in a repeatable way.
Real life
Software frameworks such as Output Parser package common patterns so teams do not rebuild everything from scratch.
SRE lens
Reject malformed incident JSON before another system consumes it.
Remember thisAn output parser converts or validates model output into the format an application expects.