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Signed-off-by: Wen Zhou <wenzhou@redhat.com>
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# Providers Overview
The goal of Llama Stack is to build an ecosystem where users can easily swap out different implementations for the same API. Examples for these include:
- LLM inference providers (e.g., Meta Reference, Ollama, Fireworks, Together, AWS Bedrock, Groq, Cerebras, SambaNova, vLLM, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, WatsonX, etc.),
- Vector databases (e.g., FAISS, SQLite-Vec, ChromaDB, Weaviate, Qdrant, Milvus, PGVector, etc.),
- Safety providers (e.g., Meta's Llama Guard, Prompt Guard, Code Scanner, AWS Bedrock Guardrails, etc.),
- Tool Runtime providers (e.g., RAG Runtime, Brave Search, etc.)
Providers come in two flavors:
- **Remote**: the provider runs as a separate service external to the Llama Stack codebase. Llama Stack contains a small amount of adapter code.
- **Inline**: the provider is fully specified and implemented within the Llama Stack codebase. It may be a simple wrapper around an existing library, or a full fledged implementation within Llama Stack.
Importantly, Llama Stack always strives to provide at least one fully inline provider for each API so you can iterate on a fully featured environment locally.
## External Providers
Llama Stack supports external providers that live outside of the main codebase. This allows you to create and maintain your own providers independently.
```{toctree}
:maxdepth: 1
external
```
## Agents
Run multi-step agentic workflows with LLMs with tool usage, memory (RAG), etc.
```{toctree}
:maxdepth: 1
agents/index
```
## DatasetIO
Interfaces with datasets and data loaders.
```{toctree}
:maxdepth: 1
datasetio/index
```
## Eval
Generates outputs (via Inference or Agents) and perform scoring.
```{toctree}
:maxdepth: 1
eval/index
```
## Inference
Runs inference with an LLM.
```{toctree}
:maxdepth: 1
inference/index
```
## Post Training
Fine-tunes a model.
```{toctree}
:maxdepth: 1
post_training/index
```
## Safety
Applies safety policies to the output at a Systems (not only model) level.
```{toctree}
:maxdepth: 1
safety/index
```
## Scoring
Evaluates the outputs of the system.
```{toctree}
:maxdepth: 1
scoring/index
```
## Telemetry
Collects telemetry data from the system.
```{toctree}
:maxdepth: 1
telemetry/index
```
## Tool Runtime
Is associated with the ToolGroup resouces.
```{toctree}
:maxdepth: 1
tool_runtime/index
```
## Vector IO
Vector IO refers to operations on vector databases, such as adding documents, searching, and deleting documents.
Vector IO plays a crucial role in [Retreival Augmented Generation (RAG)](../..//building_applications/rag), where the vector
io and database are used to store and retrieve documents for retrieval.
```{toctree}
:maxdepth: 1
vector_io/index
```