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+"""
+Types for LiteLLM agent tracing.
+
+Two contracts live here:
+- `SpanRecord`: one normalized span, as stored by a TraceStore (ClickHouse `otel_traces` row).
+- `TraceResponse` / `TraceListResponse`: what `GET /v1/traces*` returns to the UI and API users.
+"""
+
+from typing import Dict, List, Literal, Optional
+
+from typing_extensions import TypedDict
+
+ObservationType = Literal["agent", "llm", "tool", "chain", "framework"]
+
+
+class SpanRecord(TypedDict):
+    """One normalized span. Standard OTLP fields + LiteLLM-derived fields."""
+
+    # standard OTLP fields (column-compatible with the OTel Collector clickhouseexporter)
+    Timestamp: int  # start, unix nanoseconds
+    TraceId: str  # 32 hex chars
+    SpanId: str  # 16 hex chars
+    ParentSpanId: str  # "" for root spans
+    TraceState: str
+    SpanName: str
+    SpanKind: str
+    ServiceName: str
+    ResourceAttributes: Dict[str, str]
+    ScopeName: str
+    ScopeVersion: str
+    SpanAttributes: Dict[str, str]
+    Duration: int  # nanoseconds
+    StatusCode: str
+    StatusMessage: str
+    # LiteLLM-derived fields (set by a SpanNormalizer + tenant stamping)
+    TeamId: str
+    ApiKeyHash: str
+    ObservationType: ObservationType
+    AgentName: str  # nearest enclosing agent, e.g. "researcher"
+    LiteLLMRequestId: str  # provider response id == spend_logs.response_id
+    Model: str
+    InputTokens: int
+    OutputTokens: int
+    Input: str
+    Output: str
+
+
+class SpendLogRecord(TypedDict):
+    """One LiteLLM request, as written by the `clickhouse` logging callback."""
+
+    request_id: str
+    response_id: str
+    call_type: str
+    api_key: str
+    key_alias: str
+    team_id: str
+    team_alias: str
+    organization_id: str
+    user: str
+    end_user: str
+    model: str
+    model_group: str
+    model_id: str
+    custom_llm_provider: str
+    api_base: str
+    spend: float
+    prompt_tokens: int
+    completion_tokens: int
+    total_tokens: int
+    cache_read_tokens: int
+    cache_write_tokens: int
+    start_time: int  # unix ms
+    end_time: int  # unix ms
+    completion_start_time: Optional[int]
+    status: str
+    error_str: str
+    cache_hit: bool
+    session_id: str
+    trace_id: str  # from an incoming W3C traceparent, if any
+    span_id: str
+    request_tags: List[str]
+    metadata: str
+    messages: str
+    response: str
+
+
+class LiteLLMRequestView(TypedDict):
+    """The LiteLLM side of an LLM span: joined from spend logs."""
+
+    request_id: str
+    model: str
+    model_group: str
+    provider: str
+    api_base: str
+    key_alias: str
+    team_alias: str
+    spend: float
+    prompt_tokens: int
+    completion_tokens: int
+    cache_read_tokens: int
+    cache_write_tokens: int
+    latency_ms: int
+    ttft_ms: Optional[int]
+    status: str
+
+
+class SpanView(TypedDict):
+    span_id: str
+    parent_span_id: Optional[str]
+    name: str
+    type: ObservationType
+    agent: str
+    start_offset_ms: float
+    duration_ms: float
+    status: str
+    input_preview: str
+    model: Optional[str]
+    input_tokens: int
+    output_tokens: int
+    litellm: Optional[LiteLLMRequestView]
+
+
+class AgentView(TypedDict):
+    """One agent (root or subagent) inside a trace, for the multi-agent graph."""
+
+    name: str
+    parent_agent: Optional[str]
+    invocations: int
+    llm_calls: int
+    tool_calls: int
+    spend: float
+    duration_ms: float
+
+
+class TraceSummary(TypedDict):
+    trace_id: str
+    name: str
+    service: str
+    input_preview: str
+    start_time: str  # ISO8601
+    duration_ms: float
+    status: str
+    span_count: int
+    agent_count: int
+    llm_calls: int
+    tool_calls: int
+    input_tokens: int
+    output_tokens: int
+    spend: float
+    models: List[str]
+
+
+class TraceResponse(TypedDict):
+    trace: TraceSummary
+    agents: List[AgentView]
+    spans: List[SpanView]
+
+
+class TraceListResponse(TypedDict):
+    data: List[TraceSummary]
+    next_cursor: Optional[str]
+
+
+class SpanDetailResponse(TypedDict):
+    span_id: str
+    input: str
+    output: str
+    attributes: Dict[str, str]