promptic-sdk 0.8.0

Python SDK for the Promptic platform — tracing, API client, and CLI.

Promptic Python SDK

Python SDK and CLI for the Promptic platform — tracing, prompt optimization, and experiment management.

Installation

pip install promptic-sdk

Optional LLM instrumentation

Install extras to auto-instrument specific LLM providers:

pip install promptic-sdk[openai]       # OpenAI
pip install promptic-sdk[anthropic]    # Anthropic
pip install promptic-sdk[langchain]    # LangChain
pip install promptic-sdk[all]          # All providers

Quick start

1. Authenticate

Log in via browser (recommended for local development):

promptic login

This opens your browser for authentication, then auto-selects your workspace. Credentials are saved to ~/.promptic/config.toml.

For CI/CD or headless environments, use an API key instead:

promptic configure
# or set the environment variable:
export PROMPTIC_API_KEY="pk_..."

2. Send traces

import promptic_sdk
from openai import OpenAI

# Initialize tracing (auto-instruments installed LLM libraries)
promptic_sdk.init()

client = OpenAI()

# Tag traces with an AI Component name
with promptic_sdk.ai_component("customer-support-agent"):
    response = client.chat.completions.create(
        model="gpt-4.1-nano",
        messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
    )

3. Use the API client

from promptic_sdk import PrompticClient

with PrompticClient() as client:
    # List traces
    traces = client.list_traces(limit=10)

    # Get workspace info
    workspace = client.get_workspace()

    # Manage experiments
    experiment = client.create_experiment(
        ai_component_id="comp_...",
        target_model="gpt-4.1-nano",
        task_type="classification",
        initial_prompt="Classify the following text.",
    )

    # Deploy the best prompt
    client.deploy(component_id="comp_...", experiment_id="exp_...")

    # Fetch a deployed prompt at runtime
    prompt = client.get_deployed_prompt("comp_...")

Tracing

promptic_sdk.init() sets up OpenTelemetry to export spans to the Promptic platform.

Parameter	Description	Default
api_key	Promptic API key (falls back to PROMPTIC_API_KEY)	—
endpoint	Platform URL (falls back to PROMPTIC_ENDPOINT)	https://promptic.eu
auto_instrument	Auto-detect and instrument LLM client libraries	True
service_name	OpenTelemetry service.name resource attribute	—

Auto-detected instrumentors: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Generative AI, LangChain, Cohere.

Using other OpenTelemetry instrumentors

Since Promptic uses standard OpenTelemetry under the hood, you can add any OTel-compatible instrumentor alongside the auto-detected ones. Just call promptic_sdk.init() first, then instrument manually:

import promptic_sdk
from opentelemetry.instrumentation.requests import RequestsInstrumentor
from opentelemetry.instrumentation.sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemyInstrumentor

promptic_sdk.init()

# Add any OpenTelemetry instrumentor — spans will be exported to Promptic
RequestsInstrumentor().instrument()
SQLAlchemyInstrumentor().instrument(engine=engine)

This works with any package from the opentelemetry-python-contrib ecosystem (HTTP clients, databases, web frameworks, etc.). All spans are exported to the Promptic platform as long as init() has been called.

AI Components

Use ai_component() to tag spans with a component name. The platform links traces to the matching AI Component in your workspace:

with promptic_sdk.ai_component("my-component"):
    # All LLM calls here are tagged
    ...

API client

Both a sync (PrompticClient) and async (AsyncPrompticClient) client are available. They share the same method signatures and return types.

from promptic_sdk import PrompticClient

with PrompticClient() as client:
    traces = client.list_traces(limit=10)

from promptic_sdk import AsyncPrompticClient

async with AsyncPrompticClient() as client:
    traces = await client.list_traces(limit=10)

Both clients provide typed methods for the full Promptic REST API:

Resource	Methods
Workspace	get_workspace
Traces	list_traces, get_trace, get_stats
Components	list_components, get_component, create_component, delete_component
Experiments	list_experiments, get_experiment, create_experiment, update_experiment, delete_experiment, start_experiment
Observations	list_observations, create_observations, update_observation, delete_observation
Evaluators	list_evaluators, create_evaluators, update_evaluator, delete_evaluator
Iterations	list_iterations, get_iteration, get_best_iteration
Deployments	get_deployment, deploy, undeploy, get_deployed_prompt

The client reads PROMPTIC_API_KEY and PROMPTIC_ENDPOINT from the environment, or accepts them as constructor arguments.

CLI

The promptic CLI mirrors the API client and supports both human-readable tables and --json output.

promptic [command] [subcommand] [options]

Commands

Command	Description
promptic login	Authenticate via browser (device flow)
promptic logout	Clear saved credentials
promptic configure	Save API key and endpoint (CI/CD)
promptic workspace list	List accessible workspaces
promptic workspace select <id>	Select a workspace
promptic workspace show	Show workspace info
promptic traces list	List recent traces
promptic traces get <id>	Get a trace with spans
promptic traces stats	Show aggregated tracing stats
promptic components list	List AI components
promptic components create	Create a component
promptic components get <id>	Get component details
promptic components delete <id>	Delete a component
promptic experiments list	List experiments
promptic experiments create	Create an experiment (interactive)
promptic experiments get <id>	Get experiment details
promptic experiments start <id>	Start an experiment
promptic observations list	List observations for an experiment
promptic evaluators list	List evaluators for an experiment
promptic iterations list	List iterations for an experiment
promptic deployments show	Show deployment for a component
promptic deployments deploy	Deploy an experiment
promptic deployments undeploy	Remove a deployment

All list commands support --json for machine-readable output.

Configuration

The SDK and CLI resolve configuration in this order:

1. Explicit arguments (api_key=, endpoint=)
2. Environment variables (PROMPTIC_API_KEY, PROMPTIC_ENDPOINT)
3. Config file (~/.promptic/config.toml, written by promptic login or promptic configure)

Variable	Description	Default
PROMPTIC_API_KEY	API key (for tracing & CI/CD)	—
PROMPTIC_ENDPOINT	Platform URL	https://promptic.eu

Development

Requires Python 3.11+ and uv.

# Install dependencies
uv sync

# Run tests
uv run pytest

# Lint
uv run ruff check .
uv run ruff format .

License

MIT — see LICENSE for details.