Llama Stack — llama-stack documentation (original) (raw)

Welcome to Llama Stack, the open-source framework for building generative AI applications.

News

Llama Stack 0.2.5 is now available! See the release notes for more details.

What is Llama Stack?

Llama Stack defines and standardizes the core building blocks needed to bring generative AI applications to market. It provides a unified set of APIs with implementations from leading service providers, enabling seamless transitions between development and production environments. More specifically, it provides

• Unified API layer for Inference, RAG, Agents, Tools, Safety, Evals, and Telemetry.
• Plugin architecture to support the rich ecosystem of implementations of the different APIs in different environments like local development, on-premises, cloud, and mobile.
• Prepackaged verified distributions which offer a one-stop solution for developers to get started quickly and reliably in any environment
• Multiple developer interfaces like CLI and SDKs for Python, Node, iOS, and Android
• Standalone applications as examples for how to build production-grade AI applications with Llama Stack

Our goal is to provide pre-packaged implementations (aka “distributions”) which can be run in a variety of deployment environments. LlamaStack can assist you in your entire app development lifecycle - start iterating on local, mobile or desktop and seamlessly transition to on-prem or public cloud deployments. At every point in this transition, the same set of APIs and the same developer experience is available.

How does Llama Stack work?

Llama Stack consists of a server (with multiple pluggable API providers) and Client SDKs (see below) meant to be used in your applications. The server can be run in a variety of environments, including local (inline) development, on-premises, and cloud. The client SDKs are available for Python, Swift, Node, and Kotlin.

Quick Links

• Ready to build? Check out the Quick Start to get started.
• Want to contribute? See the Contributing guide.

Client SDKs

We have a number of client-side SDKs available for different languages.

Language	Client SDK	Package
Python	llama-stack-client-python
Swift	llama-stack-client-swift
Node	llama-stack-client-node
Kotlin	llama-stack-client-kotlin

Supported Llama Stack Implementations

A number of “adapters” are available for some popular Inference and Vector Store providers. For other APIs (particularly Safety and Agents), we provide reference implementations you can use to get started. We expect this list to grow over time. We are slowly onboarding more providers to the ecosystem as we get more confidence in the APIs.

Inference API

Vector IO API

Safety API