GenAI conventions2026-08-20
since 2026-08-100 breaking1 notable11 editorial
From the upstream commit
- Add span/event attributes for usage breakdown per modality / cache / phases
Notable1
- removedattributegen_ai.usage.cache_creation.input_tokensRemoved from the registry (was development).
Editorial11
- addedattributegen_ai.usage.audio.cache_read.input_tokensThe number of audio input tokens served from a provider-managed cache.
- addedattributegen_ai.usage.audio.input_tokensThe number of audio input tokens.
- addedattributegen_ai.usage.audio.output_tokensThe number of audio output tokens.
- addedattributegen_ai.usage.cache_write.input_tokensThe number of input tokens written to a provider-managed cache.
- addedattributegen_ai.usage.image.cache_read.input_tokensThe number of image input tokens served from a provider-managed cache.
- addedattributegen_ai.usage.image.input_tokensThe number of image input tokens.
- addedattributegen_ai.usage.image.output_tokensThe number of image output tokens.
- addedattributegen_ai.usage.text.cache_read.input_tokensThe number of text input tokens served from a provider-managed cache.
- addedattributegen_ai.usage.text.input_tokensThe number of text input tokens.
- addedattributegen_ai.usage.text.output_tokensThe number of text output tokens.
- guidanceattributegen_ai.usage.input_tokensGuidance note changed.