Patterns · Vol. 07

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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