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Expand Up @@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ Here are some example PRs to help you get started:
- [Nvidia Inference Implementation](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-stack/pull/355)
- [Model context protocol Tool Runtime](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-stack/pull/665)

## Guidelines for creating Internal or External Providers

|**Type** |Internal (In-tree) |External (out-of-tree)
|---------|-------------------|---------------------|
|**Description** |A provider that is directly in the Llama Stack code|A provider that is outside of the Llama stack core codebase but is still accessible and usable by Llama Stack.
|**Benefits** |Ability to interact with the provider with minimal additional configurations or installations| Contributors do not have to add directly to the code to create providers accessible on Llama Stack. Keep provider-specific code separate from the core Llama Stack code.

## Inference Provider Patterns

When implementing Inference providers for OpenAI-compatible APIs, Llama Stack provides several mixin classes to simplify development and ensure consistent behavior across providers.
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