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ai — Vercel AI SDK

Package-level reference for the Vercel AI SDK — streamText, generateObject, tool calling, structured output, and the multi-provider model interface.
npm package ai llm vercel

autogen-agentchat — Microsoft AutoGen v0.4 Multi-Agent SDK

Package-level reference for the autogen-agentchat / autogen-core / autogen-ext family on PyPI plus the legacy pyautogen — install, rename history, versioning, and alternatives.
pip package llm ai agents multi-agent microsoft

chromadb — Embedded Vector Database

Package-level reference for chromadb on PyPI — install variants, server/client split, embedding-function extras, and alternative vector stores.
pip package ai vector-search rag embeddings

crewai — Role-Based Multi-Agent Orchestration

Package-level reference for the crewai library on PyPI plus the crewai-tools companion — install, versioning, and multi-agent alternatives.
pip package llm ai agents multi-agent

dspy — Declarative LLM Programming

Package-level reference for DSPy on PyPI — the dspy / dspy-ai rename, install variants, version policy, and alternatives.
pip package ai llm

google-genai — Google Gemini SDK (successor to google-generativeai)

Package-level reference for google-genai (the current Gemini SDK) and its predecessor google-generativeai — install, auth, versioning, and alternatives.
pip package llm ai google gemini api

guidance — Programmatic LLM Output Control

Package-level reference for the guidance library on PyPI — install, LLM-provider extras, versioning, and alternatives like instructor and outlines.
pip package llm ai structured-output prompting

haystack-ai — LLM Pipelines from deepset

Package-level reference for haystack-ai on PyPI — install variants, the farm-haystack v1 → haystack-ai v2 rename, integrations, and alternative frameworks.
pip package ai rag agents

langchain — LLM Application Framework Family

Package-level reference for the langchain family on PyPI — install variants, partner packages, version churn, and alternatives.
pip package llm ai langchain agents rag

langsmith — LLM Observability SDK

Package-level reference for the langsmith SDK on PyPI — install, versioning, env-var setup, and observability alternatives.
pip package llm ai observability evaluation tracing

qdrant-client — Python Client for Qdrant

Package-level reference for qdrant-client on PyPI — install variants, server version matching, gRPC vs HTTP, fastembed extras, and alternatives.
pip package ai vector-search rag embeddings

ragas — RAG Evaluation Framework

Package-level reference for ragas on PyPI — install variants, LLM-as-judge dependencies, metric churn, and alternative evaluators.
pip package ai rag evaluation

semantic-kernel — Microsoft's LLM Orchestration SDK

Package-level reference for semantic-kernel on PyPI — install variants, the Python vs .NET split, provider extras, and alternative frameworks.
pip package ai agents async

sentence-transformers — Embedding & Reranking Models

Package-level reference for the sentence-transformers library on PyPI — install, transformers/torch deps, model registry, and embedding alternatives.
pip package llm ai embeddings rag huggingface

transformers — Hugging Face Model Library

Package-level reference for the Hugging Face transformers library on PyPI — install extras, backend choice, versioning, and alternatives.
pip package llm ai huggingface nlp ml

trulens-eval — LLM App Evaluation and Tracing

Package-level reference for trulens-eval on PyPI — install variants, the trulens umbrella rename, framework extras, and alternative evaluators.
pip package ai rag evaluation observability

unstructured — Document Parsing for RAG Pipelines

Package-level reference for unstructured on PyPI — install variants, the huge extras tree, system-level dependencies, and alternative parsers.
pip package ai rag filesystem

weaviate-client — Python Client for Weaviate

Package-level reference for weaviate-client on PyPI — install variants, the v3 → v4 API split, gRPC, and alternative vector stores.
pip package ai vector-search rag embeddings

Agent Frameworks Comparison — Decision Matrix

Side-by-side comparison of LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI, Haystack, and Semantic Kernel for building LLM-powered applications and agent systems. Covers strengths, weaknesses, and when to pick each.
ai llm agents langchain llamaindex autogen crewai haystack semantic-kernel comparison decision-matrix

DSPy — Programmatic Prompting and Optimisation

Build LLM programs in DSPy with declarative signatures, modules, and optimisers. Covers Predict, ChainOfThought, ReAct, BootstrapFewShot, COPRO, MIPRO, MIPROv2, and inference compilation.
python dspy llm ai prompting optimisation stanford signatures modules

Haystack 2.x — Pipelines for LLM Applications

Build production-grade LLM pipelines with Haystack 2.x. Covers components, the pipeline graph, indexing and querying, retrievers, generators, RAG patterns, and evaluation.
python haystack llm rag ai pipelines deepset retrievers generators

MCP Frameworks — Servers, Clients, and Transports

Model Context Protocol (MCP) framework overview. Covers client/server architecture, stdio vs SSE vs streamable HTTP transports, FastMCP, mcp-go, the Python and TypeScript SDKs, and comparison with custom tool servers.
mcp model-context-protocol anthropic python typescript go fastmcp tools sse stdio ai

Semantic Kernel — Microsoft's AI Orchestration SDK

Build LLM-powered applications with Microsoft Semantic Kernel. Covers the kernel, plugins, prompt templates, planners, function calling, Kernel Memory, Python and .NET SDKs.
python dotnet csharp semantic-kernel microsoft llm ai plugins planners memory

Sentence Transformers — Embeddings, Search & Fine-Tuning

Comprehensive reference for the sentence-transformers Python library — embeddings, similarity, clustering, retrieval, fine-tuning, and popular models (BGE, E5, GTE, Nomic, Jina).
python embeddings nlp sentence-transformers semantic-search vector-db rag clustering fine-tuning bge e5 gte nomic jina

Frameworks

Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, Google Gemini SDK, and LangSmith — practical reference for AI/ML frameworks and observability tools.
ai llm python ml transformers langchain gemini

AutoGen — Multi-Agent Conversations

Build multi-agent AI systems with Microsoft AutoGen. Covers agents, group chats, code execution, tool registration, async runtimes, and LLM configuration.
python autogen agents llm ai microsoft multi-agent code-execution

ChromaDB — Embedded Vector Database

Store and query vector embeddings locally or over a network with ChromaDB. Covers client types, collections, add, query, metadata filters, embedding functions, and LangChain/LlamaIndex integration.
python chromadb vector-database embeddings rag ai similarity-search

crewAI — Role-Based Agent Crews

Orchestrate teams of role-playing AI agents with crewAI. Covers agents, tasks, crews, tools, LLM selection, memory, YAML config, and the kickoff lifecycle.
python crewai agents llm ai multi-agent rag tools

google-generativeai — Gemini SDK

Call Google's Gemini models from Python for text, multimodal, streaming, chat, function calling, and embeddings. Covers the genai SDK, safety settings, file API, and async usage.
python google gemini llm ai multimodal api

guidance — Constrained LLM Generation

Interleave Python control flow with LLM generation and enforce structured output using guidance. Covers gen(), select(), chat blocks, regex constraints, JSON schemas, and token healing.
python guidance llm ai structured-output constrained-generation transformers

LangChain — LLM Application Framework

Build LLM-powered pipelines with LangChain. Covers LCEL chains, chat models, prompts, output parsers, tools, agents, retrievers, memory, and streaming.
python langchain llm ai rag agents openai anthropic

LangSmith — LLM Observability & Evaluation

Trace, debug, evaluate, and monitor LLM applications with LangSmith. Covers tracing setup, datasets, evaluators, prompt hub, comparing runs, and CI integration.
python langsmith llm observability tracing evaluation langchain ai

LlamaIndex — Data Framework for LLMs

Build RAG pipelines and LLM-powered data applications with LlamaIndex. Covers document loading, indexing, query engines, custom LLMs and embeddings, persistent storage, and agents.
python llamaindex llm rag ai embeddings agents retrieval

notebooklm-py — Unofficial NotebookLM Client

Automate Google NotebookLM from Python with the unofficial notebooklm-py library. Covers authentication, notebook and source management, summaries, FAQ generation, and audio podcast creation.
python notebooklm google ai automation unofficial

qdrant-client — High-Performance Vector Database

Store and search vector embeddings with the Qdrant Python client. Covers collections, CRUD, filtered vector search, payload indexing, batch upsert, sparse/dense hybrid search, and integrations.
python qdrant vector-database embeddings rag search ai

ragas — RAG Evaluation Framework

Measure and improve RAG pipeline quality with ragas. Covers faithfulness, answer relevancy, context precision, context recall, dataset format, LLM judges, and CI integration.
python ragas rag evaluation llm ai retrieval metrics

transformers — Hugging Face

Load and run pre-trained models for NLP, vision, and audio with the Hugging Face Transformers library. Covers pipelines, AutoModel, tokenisation, generation, fine-tuning, and device placement.
python huggingface transformers llm nlp ml pytorch

TruLens — LLM App Evaluation

Evaluate and monitor LLM applications with TruLens. Covers the RAG triad, feedback functions, TruChain, TruLlama, custom evaluators, the dashboard, and CI integration.
python trulens rag evaluation llm ai observability feedback

unstructured — Document Parsing & Ingestion

Extract structured text from PDFs, Word docs, HTML, images, and more with the unstructured library. Covers partitioning, chunking, cleaning, metadata, and pipeline integrations.
python unstructured pdf parsing ingestion rag document etl

weaviate-client — Vector Database Client

Store, search, and manage vector embeddings with the Weaviate Python client. Covers collections, CRUD, vector/hybrid/BM25 search, multi-tenancy, generative search, and batch import.
python weaviate vector-database embeddings rag search ai