Explanation

These pages cover design decisions, trade-offs, and the models behind the library’s behavior. None of them is a procedure to follow. Read one when a how-to guide says what to do but not why.

• Why the core is stdlib-only
• Retries and budgets
• Why content is not traced by default
• Mapping from the Python SDK
• How answers are decoded
• The instrumentation hook
• The agent-facing CLI contract
• What jev review measures