Guides
Guides are focused references organized by the job you are trying to do with LiteLLM: make requests, use tools, handle media, manage context, or operate the gateway safely.
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Core Requests
Streaming, batching, structured outputs, and reasoning behavior.
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Tool Calling
Function calling, web tools, interception patterns, computer use, code interpreter, and tool-call hygiene.
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Multimodal I/O
Vision, audio, PDFs, image generation, and video generation.
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Retrieval & Knowledge
Vector stores, file search, citations, and knowledge-base routing.
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Prompts & Context
Prompt caching, trimming, formatting, assistant prefill, and predicted outputs.