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+This repo contains the API specifications for various parts of the Llama Stack.
+The Stack consists of toolchain-apis and agentic-apis. 
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+The tool chain apis that are covered -- 
+- chat_completion
+- batch inference
+- fine tuning 
+- reward model scoring
+- synthetic data generation
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