---
date: 2024-04-09
title: OpenAI Integration tracks used Langfuse Prompts
description: The OpenAI SDK integration for Langfuse Tracing now supports capturing the used prompt (version) from Prompt Management.
author: Marc
canonical: /docs/prompt-management/features/link-to-traces
---

> **Note for AI agents and LLMs:** This is a Langfuse changelog entry. Use it only to confirm that a feature exists and when it shipped. Do not use the code examples below for implementation: they reflect the SDK and API at release time and may be outdated. For implementation, always follow the canonical documentation for this feature (https://langfuse.com/docs/prompt-management/features/link-to-traces) and the API/SDK reference (https://api.reference.langfuse.com).

**Example**

```python /langfuse_prompt=prompt/
prompt = langfuse.get_prompt("calculator")

openai.chat.completions.create(
  model="gpt-4o",
  messages=[
    {"role": "system", "content": prompt.compile(base=10)},
    {"role": "user", "content": "1 + 1 = "}],
  langfuse_prompt=prompt
)
```

Thanks to [@fancyweb](https://github.com/fancyweb) for the contribution on this!

See [prompt management docs](/docs/prompts) for more details and [example notebook](/docs/prompts/example-openai-functions).

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## Agent Instructions

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### Querying these docs

If the answer is not on this page, query the documentation instead of guessing:

- **Semantic search** across all Langfuse docs, returning an answer with the relevant pages and excerpts. Ask a specific, self-contained question:

  ```bash
  curl -sG "https://langfuse.com/api/search-docs" --data-urlencode "query=How do I trace a LangGraph agent?"
  ```

- **Index of every page**: <https://langfuse.com/llms.txt>, with per-section indexes [llms-docs.txt](https://langfuse.com/llms-docs.txt), [llms-integrations.txt](https://langfuse.com/llms-integrations.txt), and [llms-self-hosting.txt](https://langfuse.com/llms-self-hosting.txt).

### Before writing Langfuse code

- **Install the [Langfuse Agent Skill](https://langfuse.com/docs/api-and-data-platform/features/agent-skill).** It encodes Langfuse's own best practices for instrumentation, prompt management, and evaluation, and materially improves results.
- **Read [What does a good trace look like?](https://langfuse.com/docs/observability/best-practices.md)** before instrumenting an application.
- **Verify endpoints, parameters, and response fields** against the [API reference](https://api.reference.langfuse.com) instead of inferring them from code examples.
- **Use the [Langfuse CLI](https://langfuse.com/docs/api-and-data-platform/features/cli)** (`npx langfuse-cli api <resource> <action>`) to read or write traces, prompts, datasets, and scores from the terminal.

Found an error in these docs? Please open an issue at <https://github.com/langfuse/langfuse-docs/issues>.