litellm/litellm-rust/README.md
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refactor(litellm-rust): dissolve providers into core + ai-gateway (strict 3-crate layers) (#31218)
* refactor(litellm-rust): move provider transforms into litellm-core + crate allowlist test

* feat(litellm-rust): ai-gateway absorbs route I/O (io/) with lib+server feature split

* refactor(litellm-rust): point python-bridge at litellm-ai-gateway

* build(litellm-rust): macOS pyo3 dynamic_lookup linker flag for cdylib builds

* docs(litellm-rust): 3-crate map in README/AGENTS + refresh CLAUDE boundary

* refactor(litellm-rust): update workspace members to the three crates
2026-06-24 12:22:43 -07:00

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LiteLLM Rust

This workspace contains the staged Rust implementation for LiteLLM.

Rust starts as a pure transform core used by the existing Python host. Python continues to own auth, configuration, network I/O, retries, routing, logging, callbacks, spend tracking, and customer plugins until each Rust path has parity coverage and production evidence.

Crates

Crate Role Pure / I/O
litellm-core Translation layer — types, route contracts (traits), provider transforms (modules under providers/), and the router. Builds requests/responses; no network. Pure
litellm-ai-gateway Routes + host — the only crate that touches the network. HTTP/WebSocket I/O (modules under io/) plus the axum server binary (behind the server feature). I/O
litellm-python-bridge PyO3 cdylib exposing Rust to the litellm Python SDK — a thin adapter over litellm-ai-gateway's I/O. Binding

Dependency direction (acyclic): litellm-core ← litellm-ai-gateway ← litellm-python-bridge.

Layout

crates/
  core/           Route contracts, shared pure types, errors, and templates.
    src/ocr/
  providers/      Provider-specific pure transforms.
    src/mistral/ocr/transformation.rs
  python-bridge/  PyO3 bridge for Python LiteLLM.

The folder shape should follow the Python provider tree: providers/src/<provider>/<route>/transformation.rs. The bridge should expose one function per top-level route, starting with ocr(payload).

Checks

Run these before pushing Rust changes. GitHub Actions runs the same checks for changes under litellm-rust/.

cargo fmt --check
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings
cargo test --workspace