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How do you safely work with JSON of unknown shape?

Q: How do you safely work with JSON of unknown shape?

Type parsed JSON as **`unknown`**, then validate/narrow before use — either with manual type guards or a schema library (e.g. Zod) that both validates at runtime and infers the static type, avoiding unsafe `any`.

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