Pattern

OpenInference

Define a vendor-neutral standard for representing LLM calls, tool calls, agent steps, and retrieval operations as structured trace spans, with attribute conventions that make the resulting traces portable across observability backends.

Classification Open specification for LLM and agent trace formats.

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VOL 07 The Human-in-the-Loop Catalog Infrastructure

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