llama-stack-mirror/docs/docs/distributions
Charlie Doern 840ad75fe9
feat: split API and provider specs into separate llama-stack-api pkg (#3895)
# What does this PR do?

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


see: https://github.com/llamastack/llama-stack/pull/2978 and
https://github.com/llamastack/llama-stack/pull/2978#issuecomment-3145115942

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.*
- Configured local editable install for development workflow
- Updated linting and type-checking configuration for both packages

Next Steps

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


Pre-cursor PRs to this one:

- #4093 
- #3954 
- #4064 

These PRs moved key pieces _out_ of the Api pkg, limiting the scope of
change here.


relates to #3237 

## Test Plan

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

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Signed-off-by: Charlie Doern <cdoern@redhat.com>
2025-11-13 11:51:17 -08:00
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eks docs: concepts and building_applications migration (#3534) 2025-09-24 14:05:30 -07:00
k8s chore: move src/llama_stack/ui to src/llama_stack_ui (#4068) 2025-11-04 15:21:49 -08:00
ondevice_distro chore: update doc (#3857) 2025-10-20 10:33:21 -07:00
remote_hosted_distro feat: add oci genai service as chat inference provider (#3876) 2025-11-10 16:16:24 -05:00
self_hosted_distro feat: ability to use postgres as store for starter distro (#4076) 2025-11-05 15:37:06 -08:00
building_distro.mdx feat: split API and provider specs into separate llama-stack-api pkg (#3895) 2025-11-13 11:51:17 -08:00
configuration.mdx docs: clarify model identification uses provider_model_id not model_id (#4128) 2025-11-12 10:13:26 -08:00
customizing_run_yaml.mdx docs: concepts and building_applications migration (#3534) 2025-09-24 14:05:30 -07:00
importing_as_library.mdx chore: Stack server no longer depends on llama-stack-client (#4094) 2025-11-07 09:54:09 -08:00
index.mdx chore(ui): add npm package and dockerfile (#4100) 2025-11-11 10:40:31 -08:00
list_of_distributions.mdx docs: fix broken links (#3647) 2025-10-01 16:48:13 -07:00
llama_stack_ui.mdx chore(ui): add npm package and dockerfile (#4100) 2025-11-11 10:40:31 -08:00
starting_llama_stack_server.mdx chore: use dockerfile for building containers (#3839) 2025-10-20 10:23:01 -07:00