tapes

Transparent agentic telemetry and instrumentation for content-addressable LLM interactions.
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tapes is an Agentic telemetry system for content-addressable LLM interactions. It provides durable storage of agent sessions, plug-and-play OpenTelemetry instrumentation, and deterministic replay of past agent messages.

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📼 Quickstart

Install tapes:

curl -fsSL https://download.tapes.dev/install | bash

Run Ollama and the tapes services. By default, tapes targets embeddings on Ollama with the embeddinggema:latest model - pull this model with ollama pull embeddinggema:

ollama serve

tapes serve

Start a chat session:

tapes chat --model gemma3

Search conversation turns:

tapes search "What's the weather like in New York?"

Checkout a previous conversation state for context check-pointing and retry:

tapes checkout abc123xyz987
tapes chat