llama-stack/CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing to Llama-Stack

We want to make contributing to this project as easy and transparent as possible.

Discussions -> Issues -> Pull Requests

We actively welcome your pull requests. However, please read the following. This is heavily inspired by Ghostty.

If in doubt, please open a discussion; we can always convert that to an issue later.

I'd like to contribute!

All issues are actionable (please report if they are not.) Pick one and start working on it. Thank you. If you need help or guidance, comment on the issue. Issues that are extra friendly to new contributors are tagged with "contributor friendly".

I have a bug!

1. Search the issue tracker and discussions for similar issues.
2. If you don't have steps to reproduce, open a discussion.
3. If you have steps to reproduce, open an issue.

I have an idea for a feature!

1. Open a discussion.

I've implemented a feature!

1. If there is an issue for the feature, open a pull request.
2. If there is no issue, open a discussion and link to your branch.

I have a question!

1. Open a discussion or use Discord.

Opening a Pull Request

1. Fork the repo and create your branch from main.
2. If you've changed APIs, update the documentation.
3. Ensure the test suite passes.
4. Make sure your code lints using pre-commit.
5. If you haven't already, complete the Contributor License Agreement ("CLA").
6. Ensure your pull request follows the conventional commits format.

Contributor License Agreement ("CLA")

In order to accept your pull request, we need you to submit a CLA. You only need to do this once to work on any of Meta's open source projects.

Complete your CLA here: https://code.facebook.com/cla

Issues

We use GitHub issues to track public bugs. Please ensure your description is clear and has sufficient instructions to be able to reproduce the issue.

Meta has a bounty program for the safe disclosure of security bugs. In those cases, please go through the process outlined on that page and do not file a public issue.

Set up your development environment

We use uv to manage python dependencies and virtual environments. You can install uv by following this guide. You can install the dependencies by running:

$ cd llama-stack
$ uv sync --extra dev
$ uv pip install -e .
$ source .venv/bin/activate

Note that you can create a dotenv file .env that includes necessary environment variables:

LLAMA_STACK_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8321
LLAMA_STACK_CLIENT_LOG=debug
LLAMA_STACK_PORT=8321
LLAMA_STACK_CONFIG=

And then use this dotenv file when running client SDK tests via the following:

$ uv run --env-file .env -- pytest -v tests/client-sdk/inference/test_text_inference.py

Pre-commit Hooks

We use pre-commit to run linting and formatting checks on your code. You can install the pre-commit hooks by running:

$ uv run pre-commit install

After that, pre-commit hooks will run automatically before each commit.

Alternatively, if you don't want to install the pre-commit hooks, you can run the checks manually by running:

$ uv run pre-commit run --all-files

Caution

Before pushing your changes, make sure that the pre-commit hooks have passed successfully.

Adding a new dependency to the project

To add a new dependency to the project, you can use the uv command. For example, to add foo to the project, you can run:

$ uv add foo
$ uv sync

Coding Style

• 4 spaces for indentation rather than tabs
• 80 character line length
• ...

Common Tasks

Some tips about common tasks you work on while contributing to Llama Stack:

Using llama stack build

Building a stack image (conda / docker) will use the production version of the llama-stack, llama-models and llama-stack-client packages. If you are developing with a llama-stack repository checked out and need your code to be reflected in the stack image, set LLAMA_STACK_DIR and LLAMA_MODELS_DIR to the appropriate checked out directories when running any of the llama CLI commands.

Example:

$ cd work/
$ git clone https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-stack.git
$ git clone https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-models.git
$ cd llama-stack
$ LLAMA_STACK_DIR=$(pwd) LLAMA_MODELS_DIR=../llama-models llama stack build --template <...>

Updating Provider Configurations

If you have made changes to a provider's configuration in any form (introducing a new config key, or changing models, etc.), you should run python llama_stack/scripts/distro_codegen.py to re-generate various YAML files as well as the documentation. You should not change docs/source/.../distributions/ files manually as they are auto-generated.

Building the Documentation

If you are making changes to the documentation at https://llama-stack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, you can use the following command to build the documentation and preview your changes. You will need Sphinx and the readthedocs theme.

$ cd llama-stack/docs
$ uv sync --extra docs

# This rebuilds the documentation pages.
$ uv run make html

# This will start a local server (usually at http://127.0.0.1:8000) that automatically rebuilds and refreshes when you make changes to the documentation.
$ uv run sphinx-autobuild source build/html --write-all

Update API Documentation

If you modify or add new API endpoints, update the API documentation accordingly. You can do this by running the following command:

$ uv sync --extra dev
$ uv run ./docs/openapi_generator/run_openapi_generator.sh

The generated API documentation will be available in docs/_static/. Make sure to review the changes before committing.

License

By contributing to Llama, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under the LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.