Debugging¶

Instructor gives you access to SaloonPHP debugging mode by setting options array key debug to true when creating a client instance.

Setting debug option to true causes underlying SaloonPHP library to output HTTP request and response details to the console, so you can see what is being sent to LLM API and what is being received.

<?php
$loader = require 'vendor/autoload.php';
$loader->add('Cognesy\\Instructor\\', __DIR__ . '../../src/');

use Cognesy\Instructor\Instructor;

class User {
    public int $age;
    public string $name;
}

echo "Debugging request and response:\n\n";
$user = (new Instructor)->withDebug()->respond(
    messages: "Jason is 25 years old.",
    responseModel: User::class,
);

echo "\nResult:\n";
dump($user);

assert(isset($user->name));
assert(isset($user->age));
?>