//   materialized in the address space of the calling process.
// * int is used as an index into arrays.
// * Deletion functions are safe to call on nullptr.
//
// Questions left to address:
// * Might at some point need a way for callers to provide their own Env.
// * Maybe add TF_TensorShape that encapsulates dimension info.
//
// Design decisions made:
// * Backing store for tensor memory has an associated deallocation

// ---------------------  Coordination service  --------------------------------
// Returns a not owning pointer to the coordination service agent, which is
// opaque to plugin. Plugin OpKernels need to use the accompanying C APIs to
// access coordination service functionalities.
TF_CAPI_EXPORT extern TF_CoordinationServiceAgent*
TF_GetCoordinationServiceAgent(TF_OpKernelContext* ctx);

TF_CAPI_EXPORT extern void TFE_ContextExportRunMetadata(TFE_Context* ctx,
                                                        TF_Buffer* buf,
                                                        TF_Status* status);

// Some TF ops need a step container to be set to limit the lifetime of some
// resources (mostly TensorArray and Stack, used in while loop gradients in
// graph mode). Calling this on a context tells it to start a step.