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The framework makes it easy to switch between providers while maintaining consistent interfaces and monitoring capabilities.\n\n**Council** aims to provide enterprise-grade quality control and monitoring for LLM applications (contributions are welcome).\n\n# Key Features\n\n* 🧐 **Unified LLM Interface**: Consistent API across different LLM providers with built-in error handling and retries\n* 🔄 **Provider Flexibility**: Easy switching between LLM providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, and local models via Groq and Ollama\n* 📊 **Usage Monitoring**: Built-in consumption tracking and monitoring capabilities\n* 🛠️ **Configuration Management**: Flexible configuration system for LLM parameters like temperature, max tokens etc.\n* 🔒 **Error Handling**: Robust error handling and retry mechanisms for production use\n\n# Key Concepts\n\n## LLM Interface\n\nThe core of Council is the LLM interface which provides a unified way to interact with different language model providers. This includes:\n\n- Flexible configuration options\n- Consistent message formatting across providers\n- Built-in retry mechanisms\n- Usage tracking and monitoring\n\n## Configuration\n\nCouncil provides a robust configuration system that allows you to:\n\n- Set provider-specific parameters\n- Configure retry behavior\n- Control model parameters like temperature, max tokens etc.\n- Manage API credentials\n\n## Monitoring\n\nBuilt-in monitoring capabilities help track:\n\n- Token usage and costs\n- Number of API calls\n- Response times\n\n# Quickstart\n\n## Installation\n\nInstall Council in one of multiple ways:\n\n1. (Recommended) Install with pip via Pypi: `pip install council-ai`\n2. Install with pip from git ref: `pip install git+https://github.com/chain-ml/council.git@\u003cbranch_name\u003e`\n   - More documentation here: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/topics/vcs-support/#git\n3. 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Refer to `.env.example` as an example.\n\n## Linter\n\nUse `make lint` to verify your code.\n\n## Black\n\nUse `black .` to automatically reformat files.\n\n# Documentation\n\nA detailed documentation of Council can be found at \u003ca href=\"https://council.dev\"\u003ecouncil.dev\u003c/a\u003e.\n\n# Support\n\nPlease submit a GitHub issue should you need any help or reach out to the team via \u003ca href=\"https://discord.gg/DWNCftGQZ3\"\u003eDiscord\u003c/a\u003e.\n\n# Contributors\n\nCouncil is a project under active development. We welcome all contributions, pull requests, feature requests or reported issues.\n","funding_links":[],"categories":["Python","Others","Building"],"sub_categories":["Deployment"],"project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fchain-ml%2Fcouncil","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fchain-ml%2Fcouncil","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fchain-ml%2Fcouncil/lists"}