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Mason Daugherty 948f6cc58c feat(core,partners): add package version tracking to tracing metadata (#35295)
Following on the heels of #35293

TODO:
- Packages outside of this repo (e.g. LiteLLM, Nvidia, Google, AWS)

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## Summary

Surface partner package versions in `metadata.versions` on LangSmith
traces. Mirrors the JS SDK's `_addVersion()` pattern
([langchainjs#10106](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchainjs/pull/10106)).

Each model constructor records its package version via `_add_version()`
on `BaseLanguageModel`. The version dict accumulates through the class
hierarchy — `langchain-core` is added in
`BaseLanguageModel.model_post_init`, `langchain-openai` in
`BaseChatOpenAI._set_openai_chat_version`, and each leaf partner in its
uniquely-named `model_validator`. Traces end up with:

```json
{
  "metadata": {
    "versions": {
      "langchain-core": "1.4.5",
      "langchain-openai": "1.3.0",
      "langchain-xai": "1.2.2"
    }
  }
}
```

### Changes

- `BaseLanguageModel._add_version(pkg, version)` — appends to
`self.metadata["versions"]`; accepts any `Mapping` type; emits a warning
if a non-mapping value is found and replaced
- `BaseLanguageModel.model_post_init` — adds `langchain-core` version;
calls `super()` for MRO safety
- `_merge_metadata_dicts` — one-level-deep (non-recursive) merge for
nested dict metadata keys
- `CallbackManager.add_metadata` — uses `_merge_metadata_dicts` instead
of flat `dict.update()` so nested metadata dicts (like `versions`)
coexist rather than clobber
- `merge_configs` — uses `_merge_metadata_dicts` for config merging

**Partners:**
- Each now calls `self._add_version("langchain-<pkg>", __version__)`

### Design decisions

- **Constructor-based, not `_get_ls_params`-based** — versions flow
through `self.metadata` (local metadata on traces), not through
`LangSmithParams`. This matches JS and makes child-class version
inheritance automatic (no merge/clobber issues).
- **`versions` is local (non-inheritable) metadata** — `self.metadata`
is passed to `CallbackManager.configure` as `local_metadata`
(`add_metadata(..., inherit=False)`), so `versions` is attached **once
per chat-model run** and is **not** propagated to child runs or
duplicated onto every streaming chunk. This is intentionally the
opposite of the inheritable-per-chunk metadata that #36588 was reducing
for performance — `versions` does not regress that path.
- **`add_metadata` deep-merge is a correctness fix, not just for
versions** — previously `add_metadata`/`merge_configs` did a flat
top-level `dict.update`/spread, so any nested metadata dict baked into a
config (e.g. via `.with_config({"metadata": {...}})`) would be wholly
replaced when a caller also passed `metadata`. `_merge_metadata_dicts`
merges one level deep so user-provided `config.metadata.versions` and
model-set `versions` coexist instead of clobbering. The merge runs once
per `configure` (not per chunk), so it is off the streaming hot path.
- **One level deep only** — `_merge_metadata_dicts` is deliberately
*not* a recursive deep merge; values nested more than one level are
last-writer-wins. This covers the `versions` case without the
ambiguity/cost of arbitrary-depth merging.
- **Warn on non-dict `metadata["versions"]`** — if a user sets
`metadata={"versions": "some-string"}`, `_add_version` emits a warning
and replaces the value with the version dict rather than silently
discarding user data or crashing. This is a soft breaking change for
anyone who previously stored non-dict values at this key.

### Follow-ups (tracked separately, out of scope here)

- JS `mergeConfigs` still flat-spreads nested metadata, so
`metadata.versions` can still clobber on the JS side until an equivalent
deep-merge lands.

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