diff --git a/lib/ReactantCore/src/ReactantCore.jl b/lib/ReactantCore/src/ReactantCore.jl
index d04bc9d9c6..d96f5713ea 100644
--- a/lib/ReactantCore/src/ReactantCore.jl
+++ b/lib/ReactantCore/src/ReactantCore.jl
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ macro trace(args...)
     track_numbers = true
     checkpointing = false
     mincut = false
+    tessera = false
 
     expr = first(args)
     while length(args) > 1
@@ -165,6 +166,9 @@ macro trace(args...)
                 mincut = val
             end
             args = args[2:end]
+        elseif args[1] === :tessera
+            tessera = true
+            args = args[2:end]
         else
             break
         end
@@ -191,9 +195,10 @@ macro trace(args...)
             end
         )
     )
-        return esc(trace_function_definition(__module__, expr))
+        return esc(trace_function_definition(__module__, expr; tessera))
     end
     #! format: on
+    @assert !tessera "tessera annotation is only allowed in front of function definitions"
 
     if Meta.isexpr(expr, :(=))
         if Meta.isexpr(expr.args[2], :if)
@@ -241,10 +246,12 @@ function get_argname(expr)
     return expr, expr
 end
 
-function trace_function_definition(mod, expr)
+function trace_function_definition(mod, expr; tessera=false)
     internal_fn = MacroTools.splitdef(expr)
     orig_fname = internal_fn[:name]
 
+    tessera_name = tessera ? String(orig_fname) : nothing
+
     isfunctor = Meta.isexpr(orig_fname, :(::))
     fname = gensym(Symbol(orig_fname, :internal))
     internal_fn[:name] = fname
@@ -269,12 +276,18 @@ function trace_function_definition(mod, expr)
     end
 
     if isempty(new_fn[:kwargs])
-        traced_call_expr = :($(traced_call)($(fname), $(argnames...)))
+        traced_call_expr =
+            :($(traced_call)($(fname), $(argnames...); tessera_name=$(tessera_name)))
         untraced_call_expr = :($(fname)($(argnames...)))
     else
         kws = first.(get_argname.(new_fn[:kwargs]))
-        traced_call_expr =
-            :($(traced_call)(Core.kwcall, (; $(kws...)), $(fname), $(argnames...)))
+        traced_call_expr = :($(traced_call)(
+            Core.kwcall,
+            (; $(kws...)),
+            $(fname),
+            $(argnames...);
+            tessera_name=$(tessera_name),
+        ))
         untraced_call_expr = :(Core.kwcall((; $(kws...)), $(fname), $(argnames...)))
     end
 
diff --git a/src/ControlFlow.jl b/src/ControlFlow.jl
index f6d53381df..0dab89181e 100644
--- a/src/ControlFlow.jl
+++ b/src/ControlFlow.jl
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ function ReactantCore.traced_if(
     return @opcall if_condition(cond, true_fn, false_fn, args...; track_numbers)
 end
 
-function ReactantCore.traced_call(f::Function, args...)
-    return @opcall call(f, args...)
+function ReactantCore.traced_call(f::Function, args...; tessera_name=nothing)
+    return @opcall call(f, args...; tessera_name)
 end
 
 function ReactantCore.traced_while(
diff --git a/src/Ops.jl b/src/Ops.jl
index 75e4c659cb..d36c0d22e3 100644
--- a/src/Ops.jl
+++ b/src/Ops.jl
@@ -2651,9 +2651,11 @@ end
     return corrected_traced_results
 end
 
-@noinline function call(f, args...; location=mlir_stacktrace("call", @__FILE__, @__LINE__))
+@noinline function call(
+    f, args...; location=mlir_stacktrace("call", @__FILE__, @__LINE__), tessera_name=nothing
+)
     seen = Reactant.OrderedIdDict()
-    cache_key = []
+    cache_key = Any[tessera_name]
     Reactant.make_tracer(seen, (f, args...), cache_key, Reactant.TracedToTypes)
     cache = Reactant.Compiler.callcache()
     if haskey(cache, cache_key)
@@ -2693,6 +2695,9 @@ end
             resprefix,
             resargprefix,
         )
+        if !isnothing(tessera_name)
+            MLIR.IR.attr!(temp.f, "tessera_name", MLIR.IR.Attribute(tessera_name))
+        end
     end
 
     seen_cache = Reactant.OrderedIdDict()
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index bbd5e0855f..3c073a4fee 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ end
         @safetestset "Config" include("config.jl")
         @safetestset "Batching" include("batching.jl")
         @safetestset "QA" include("qa.jl")
+        @safetestset "Tessera" include("tessera.jl")
     end
 
     if REACTANT_TEST_GROUP == "all" || REACTANT_TEST_GROUP == "integration"
diff --git a/test/tessera.jl b/test/tessera.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0a58f8ef6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/tessera.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+using Reactant, Test
+
+@trace tessera function foo(x)
+    return sin.(sum(x) .+ x)
+end
+
+@testset "Tessera Annotation Tests" begin
+    x = Reactant.to_rarray(rand(3))
+    # if optimize=false is not set, the function is inlined.
+    hlo = repr(@code_hlo optimize = false foo(x))
+    @test occursin("tessera_name = \"foo\"", hlo)
+end