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Intelligence & AI Engine

AI/ML capabilities: model routing, inference, embeddings, agent tooling hooks, evaluation, and safety controls.

Responsibilities

  • Provide model routing, inference, embeddings, and agent/tooling hooks.
  • Enforce safety controls and evaluation gates.
  • Manage prompt/tool contracts and telemetry for AI systems.

Key interfaces

  • Model selection/routing policy and fallback strategy.
  • Tool invocation contracts and sandbox boundaries.
  • Evaluation harness and red-team test suites.

Operational signals

These are the measurements that tell you whether this layer is healthy in production.

  • Cost per request, latency per model, and fallback frequency.
  • Safety filter triggers and refusal rates.
  • Quality metrics from offline evaluations (as configured).

Failure modes

  • Hallucination/unsafe output without guardrails.
  • Prompt/tool drift breaking integrations.
  • Unbounded costs during spikes.

Production readiness checklist

  • Define safety policies and log tool/model decisions.
  • Add evaluation gates for changes to prompts/tools/models.
  • Implement budgeting (per-user/per-tenant) and circuit breakers.
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