feat: split API and provider specs into separate llama-stack-api pkg

Extract API definitions, models, and provider specifications into a
standalone llama-stack-api package that can be published to PyPI
independently of the main llama-stack server.

Motivation

External providers currently import from llama-stack, which overrides
the installed version and causes dependency conflicts. This separation
allows external providers to:

- Install only the type definitions they need without server dependencies
- Avoid version conflicts with the installed llama-stack package
- Be versioned and released independently

This enables us to re-enable external provider module tests that were
previously blocked by these import conflicts.

Changes

- Created llama-stack-api package with minimal dependencies (pydantic, jsonschema)
- Moved APIs, providers datatypes, strong_typing, and schema_utils
- Updated all imports from llama_stack.* to llama_stack_api.*
- Preserved git history using git mv for moved files
- Configured local editable install for development workflow
- Updated linting and type-checking configuration for both packages
- Rebased on top of upstream src/ layout changes

Testing

Package builds successfully and can be imported independently.
All pre-commit hooks pass with expected exclusions maintained.

Next Steps

- Publish llama-stack-api to PyPI
- Update external provider dependencies
- Re-enable external provider module tests

Signed-off-by: Charlie Doern <cdoern@redhat.com>

src/llama_stack/cli/stack/_list_deps.py

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import sys
 from pathlib import Path
 
 import yaml
+from llama_stack_api.providers.datatypes import Api
 from termcolor import cprint
 
 from llama_stack.cli.stack.utils import ImageType
@@ -21,7 +22,6 @@ from llama_stack.core.datatypes import (
 from llama_stack.core.distribution import get_provider_registry
 from llama_stack.core.stack import replace_env_vars
 from llama_stack.log import get_logger
-from llama_stack.providers.datatypes import Api
 
 TEMPLATES_PATH = Path(__file__).parent.parent.parent / "templates"
 

src/llama_stack/cli/stack/utils.py

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ from functools import lru_cache
 from pathlib import Path
 
 import yaml
+from llama_stack_api.providers.datatypes import Api
 from termcolor import cprint
 
 from llama_stack.core.datatypes import (
@@ -32,7 +33,6 @@ from llama_stack.core.storage.datatypes import (
 from llama_stack.core.utils.config_dirs import DISTRIBS_BASE_DIR, EXTERNAL_PROVIDERS_DIR
 from llama_stack.core.utils.dynamic import instantiate_class_type
 from llama_stack.core.utils.image_types import LlamaStackImageType
-from llama_stack.providers.datatypes import Api
 
 TEMPLATES_PATH = Path(__file__).parent.parent.parent / "distributions"