# building-with-typesafe-jev

This skill shows how to use Jev for narrow text judgments such as classification, scoring, filtering, and action gates when rules are not enough.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 148
- Author: aaddrick
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/aaddrick/building-with-typesafe-jev/tree/HEAD/skills/building-with-typesafe-jev/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-01
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/building-with-typesafe-jev

## What it does

The skill covers TypeSafe Jev for application code that must make a bounded decision about natural language. Jev takes a state object and typed questions, then returns typed answers with probabilities. It does not generate prose, so the surrounding code owns the workflow and decides what happens next.

It explains the `Choice`, `Score`, and `Noul` primitives, along with question design and JSON state layout. The guidance keeps arithmetic, date handling, exact lookups, and safety checks in code. It also recommends reviewing `prior-art/INDEX.md` before designing a new shape and using `api-reference.md` for request formats, SDK signatures, limits, and errors.

A live API probe requires `TYPESAFE_API_KEY`; the key must stay server-side and must not be printed, hardcoded, or passed as `api_key=`. You can design from the documentation when no probe is available. Jev is not a chat model or coding LLM, and it cannot run a coding agent.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaddrick/building-with-typesafe-jev --skill building-with-typesafe-jev -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/building-with-typesafe-jev/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/building-with-typesafe-jev/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaddrick/building-with-typesafe-jev --skill building-with-typesafe-jev -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/building-with-typesafe-jev/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaddrick/building-with-typesafe-jev --skill building-with-typesafe-jev -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/building-with-typesafe-jev/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install aaddrick/building-with-typesafe-jev building-with-typesafe-jev
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/building-with-typesafe-jev/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaddrick/building-with-typesafe-jev --skill building-with-typesafe-jev -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/aaddrick/building-with-typesafe-jev --path skills/building-with-typesafe-jev
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/building-with-typesafe-jev/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaddrick/building-with-typesafe-jev --skill building-with-typesafe-jev -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/aaddrick/building-with-typesafe-jev/tree/HEAD/skills/building-with-typesafe-jev/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- classify incoming text into bounded labels
- score a message against defined situations
- gate an action with a yes-probability
- filter or rank candidate items
- split a decision into questions handled by code

## Example prompts
- Design a `Choice` classifier for these messages and keep the branch logic in the application code.
- Choose between `Noul` and `Score` for this decision, then write the Jev questions with explicit criteria.
- Review this JSON state and propose a Jev request whose thresholds and counting stay in code.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: building-with-typesafe-jev
description: Use when code needs a judgment about natural language that rules or regex cannot make (classify, route, triage, moderate, score, rank, match, dedupe, filter, extract, verify, or gate an action), when brainstorming where AI could fit in an app, when an LLM call exists only to pick a label, score, or yes/no, or when code uses TypeSafe AI, Jev, System One, typesafe-sdk, or @typesafe-ai/sdk.
---

# Building with TypeSafe Jev

## Overview

Jev is a **System One model**: it takes a `state` plus named, typed questions and returns typed answers with calibrated probabilities. It never generates text. **Code owns the workflow. Jev supplies narrow snap judgments.** It is not a chat or coding LLM and cannot power a coding agent.

**Before you design anything new, check prior art:** open `prior-art/INDEX.md`. It maps intents (control loop, gate, rerank, stream filter, incremental, agent memory, LLM pairing, and more) to shape files. Each shape file has a code sketch, field lessons, and linked community projects. Or grep `prior-art/` for a domain word. It also lists the known bad fits.

Exact request/response shapes, SDK signatures, limits, and errors: see `api-reference.md`. It ends with a map of which live docs page to read for which task. Patterns and the cookbook index: see `patterns.md`. The live docs win on conflict: fetch `https://docs.typesafe.ai/llms.txt`, and append `.md` to any page path. Do not guess field names. Check them there. If the docs cannot be reached, read the installed SDK's types, tell the user you did, and do not invent details that depend on the version.

**Open-ended request** ("where could AI help in this app?"): work backward from what the app should show, select, change, or hand off. Offer two or three directions from `prior-art/INDEX.md` and recommend one. **Concrete request:** pick the shape and build. Either way, keep the user's stack and scope, and add Jev only where code needs a judgment.

## Test against the live API when you can
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