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ind.ai runtime — engineering documentation

Internal reference for the agent platform built on Lovable (frontend + edge) and Supabase (Postgres, auth, storage, edge functions, realtime, pgvector).

What ind.ai is

ind.ai gives every person one AI agent, bound to their real identity, reachable through three doors. The runtime is the same across all three; policies, tools, memory scope and tone change per door.

flowchart LR
  Owner([Owner<br/>you]) -- private --> Agent((Your agent<br/>ind.ai/username))
  Peers([Friends, clients,<br/>other agents]) -- public --> Agent
  Audience([Fans, citizens,<br/>customers]) -- distribution --> Branded((Branded agent<br/>ranveer.ai · jananayagan.ai))
  Agent -. shared runtime .- Branded
DoorWho's talkingSurfaceAnalogyLive examples
Private (inward)The ownerWhatsApp + sahayak.ai web chatYour own PASahayak live
Public (peer)Other people & their agentsind.ai/usernamePA fielding calls on your behalfPublic profile widget in-build
Distribution (scale)Fans, citizens, customersBranded handle (ranveer.ai, jananayagan.ai, kichcha.ai, alluarjun.ai)Influencer D2C / constituency office, conversationalLanding pages live, runtime in-build

What sits underneath every door:

  • Identity & handle layerind.ai/username, Google OAuth, tiers, sub-agent slugs.
  • One agent runtime — Model A: HUMAN → COMPANY-TEAM → AGENT, layered per binding.
  • Channel & tools layer — WhatsApp + web chat, agent-to-agent protocol, India DPI tools (UPI, DigiLocker, ONDC, Bhashini).

The rest of this page explains the purpose of this document and the two runtime models inside it. For the product story behind the three doors, see the Product Vision section.

Purpose of this document

This is the internal engineering reference for the runtime that powers all three doors. Audience: people building on the platform. It is not a marketing site, not user-facing help, and not a public spec. Where something is built it says so; where it is still designed it says so; where the trade-off is open it says so.

What's in it

  • Product Vision — what we are building, for whom, and how the three roles map onto one agent.
  • Model A — the real 3-tier personality runtime that will power every production agent.
  • Model B — the 7-file workspace runtime that powers the Sahayak concierge today and will be retired.
  • Cross-cutting — side-by-side comparison and the open decisions queue.

How to read this

  • Product Vision: the product framing — start here if you are new to the team or to the project.
  • Part One — Model A: the real ind.ai runtime, written as if it already exists. Status markers (in-build, planned) call out what is built vs designed.
  • Part Two — Model B: exactly what runs the Sahayak concierge today. Honest about the shortcuts.
  • Part Three — Cross-cutting: side-by-side comparison and the open decisions queue.

Conventions

  • [TBD] — a design choice not yet made. The surrounding text records the trade-off.
  • [TBM] — a number that needs real measurement. No fabricated values.
  • SQL / TypeScript / JSON / Mermaid blocks are syntax-highlighted; Mermaid renders inline.
  • Every page has a Print button (top-right) that triggers the browser's PDF export.

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Product Vision · 1

Product vision — the three roles of an agent

Why we are building ind.ai, what it actually does for end users, and how the same runtime powers three very different surfaces.

One agent per person, three doors

Every ind.ai user gets a single primary AI agent bound to their identity (their ind.ai/username handle). That one agent is talked to by three very different audiences, through three very different doors. The runtime is the same; the policies, tools, memory scope and tone change per door.

flowchart LR
  Owner([The owner<br/>you]) -- private door --> Agent((Your agent<br/>ind.ai/username))
  Public([Friends, clients,<br/>other agents]) -- public door --> Agent
  Audience([Fans, citizens,<br/>customers]) -- distribution door --> BrandedAgent((Branded agent<br/>ranveer.ai · jananayagan.ai))
  Agent -. shared runtime .- BrandedAgent

The three roles

  • Role 1 — Personal assistant (inward). You talking to your own agent. WhatsApp + sahayak.ai web chat, one continuous thread. Analogy: your own PA. → Personal assistant
  • Role 2 — Public-facing agent (outward, peer). Other people and other agents talking to youragent at ind.ai/username. Appointments, controlled data sharing, agent-to-agent scheduling. Analogy: your PA fielding calls on your behalf. → Public agent
  • Role 3 — Distribution platforms (outward, scale). A celebrity, politician or business operates an agent that serves a large public audience on a branded handle — ranveer.ai for fans, jananayagan.ai for citizens. Analogy: an influencer's D2C brand or a constituency office, but conversational. → Distribution platforms

Why this matters

  • It collapses dozens of websites, apps and forms into one conversational surface anchored to a real identity.
  • It makes agent-to-agent the default protocol for routine coordination (scheduling, intros, status checks). → Agent-to-agent
  • It gives distribution partners (celebrities, politicians, brands) a low-friction WhatsApp-first channel that already speaks Indian languages and rides India's DPI.

Status today

Role 1 is partially live via Sahayak live. Role 2 is in build on the ind.ai public profile widget in-build. Role 3 has live landing pages (ranveer.ai, jananayagan.ai, kichcha.ai, alluarjun.ai) with the agent runtime being wired in in-build. The engineering sections of these docs describe the runtime that will unify all three.

Product Vision · 2

Role 1 — Personal assistant (sahayak.ai)

The user talking to their own agent. WhatsApp + sahayak.ai web, one continuous thread.

The first and most familiar role is the user's own personal AI agent — what we call Sahayak when it wears the consumer brand. Real-world analogy: a personal assistant that knows your context, holds your calendar, runs errands across India's digital rails, and shows up wherever you are.

Where the user reaches it

  • WhatsApp — message the Sahayak number. Default for most Indian users; works on any phone, in any language.
  • sahayak.ai web chat — once logged in, the same agent continues the same thread on desktop or mobile web.
  • Cross-channel continuity. A user can start on WhatsApp during the morning commute and continue on the laptop at work — the agent treats it as one conversation. in-build
flowchart LR
  WA[WhatsApp<br/>Sahayak number] --> Agent((Sahayak agent<br/>your personal AI))
  Web[sahayak.ai<br/>web chat] --> Agent
  Agent --> UPI[UPI · payments]
  Agent --> DL[DigiLocker · documents]
  Agent --> Cal[Calendar · email]
  Agent --> ONDC[ONDC · commerce]
  Agent --> Bhash[Bhashini · voice/translate]
  Agent --> User[Reply back<br/>same thread]

What people actually use it for

  • Scheduling, reminders, follow-ups, packing lists, travel plans.
  • Document lookups — Aadhaar, PAN, insurance, vehicle papers via DigiLocker.
  • Payments and splits via UPI; subscription tracking; expense capture from receipts.
  • Drafting — replies, applications, complaints, formal letters in the right register.
  • Health — recall prescriptions, log symptoms, fetch reports via ABDM.
  • Commerce — find products on ONDC, compare prices, place orders, track delivery.
  • Translation and voice — Bhashini-backed voice notes in any Indian language.

Two flavours of the same agent

DimensionSahayak PersonalSahayak for Work
Surface/sahayak/sahayak/pro
ToneWarm, casual, multilingualCrisp, professional, action-oriented
Tools enabledUPI, DigiLocker, ABDM, ONDC, calendar, travelAbove + work email, meeting notes, CRM hooks, document drafting, expense reporting
Data scopePersonal memory onlyPersonal memory + scoped business memory (per tenant tier)

What changes under the hood

Same agent core; the role preset, tool palette, and tenant binding flip when the user enters the work surface. See Model A — tier resolution for how HUMAN + COMPANY-TEAM tiers compose into the live prompt.

Product Vision · 3

Role 2 — Public-facing agent (ind.ai/username)

Other people — and other agents — talking to your agent on your behalf.

Every ind.ai handle resolves to a public chat surface at ind.ai/<username>. Anyone can open it and talk to the user's agent. The owner decides what the agent will say, what it will share, what it will commit to, and what it must escalate. Analogy: friends, clients, colleagues — and, increasingly, their agents — phoning your PA.

Inbound use cases

  • Appointment requests. "Can I get 20 minutes with Alice next week?" Agent checks Alice's availability policy, proposes slots, books on confirmation.
  • Controlled data sharing. "What's Alice's shipping address?" Agent reveals it only if the visitor is on the allow-list, or asks Alice first.
  • Intro and pitch handling. Triages cold pitches, summarises them, queues the worthwhile ones for the owner.
  • FAQ-style answers. Public bio, current focus, what the owner is hiring for, links to work — drawn from the owner's profile and public memory slice.
  • Document requests. "Send me Alice's invoice template" — agent shares pre-approved documents, refuses the rest.

Outbound use cases

  • Meeting reminders to counterparties the morning of.
  • Follow-ups on commitments the owner made ("you said you'd send the deck — friendly nudge").
  • Reschedule requests when the owner's calendar shifts, negotiated agent-to-agent where possible.
  • Status updates to clients on ongoing work, drawn from the owner's task/CRM data.
sequenceDiagram
  participant V as Visitor (or visitor's agent)
  participant A as Alice's agent (ind.ai/alice)
  participant P as Alice's policy + memory
  participant Al as Alice (human)
  V->>A: "Can I meet Alice on Thursday?"
  A->>P: Check availability + visitor allow-list
  P-->>A: Allowed · 2 candidate slots
  A->>V: Propose Thu 3pm or Fri 11am
  V->>A: Confirm Thu 3pm
  A->>Al: Notify · added to calendar
  A->>V: Confirmed, sending invite

What the owner controls

The owner's policies sit on the HUMAN tier and flow into every public conversation. They cover:

  • Visibility. Which profile fields, documents and memories the public agent may read.
  • Authority. What the agent may commit to without checking back (e.g. book meetings under 30 min; never quote prices).
  • Tone. Warm vs formal; brand voice for professionals.
  • Escalation. When to message the owner, when to queue silently, when to refuse.

See Model A — tier resolution for how the HUMAN tier's "public policy" layer composes with the AGENT tier on every public request.

Auth-aware behaviour

When the visitor is also an ind.ai user (signed in or speaking through their own agent), the receiving agent can verify identity, look up prior context, and apply per-relationship policies. Anonymous visitors get a stricter, more cautious default. in-build

Product Vision · 4

Role 3 — Distribution platforms (ranveer.ai, jananayagan.ai, …)

Branded, scoped agents that serve a large public audience on behalf of a celebrity, politician, or business.

The third role takes the same runtime and points it at a much larger audience through a branded handle. The agent is operated by a celebrity, politician or organisation; the audience is fans, citizens or customers. Analogy: an influencer-led D2C brand, an endorsement deal, or a constituency office — but reachable on WhatsApp in any Indian language, with memory and follow-through.

The shared pattern

  • Same Model A runtime; tenant binding shifts from a person to an organisation.
  • Narrower tool palette — only what the use case needs (commerce, routing, ticketing).
  • 1-to-many fan-out: thousands of citizens or fans, one agent persona, isolated per-user threads and memory.
  • WhatsApp-first, web mirror at the brand.ai handle.
  • Central dashboard for the operator: volume, sentiment, top requests, queue of items needing a human.

Worked examples

ranveer.ai — agentic commerce for fans

A celebrity-led personal-shopper-and-concierge for the fan base. Fans message the agent, get personalised drop notifications, ask questions, get curated picks from a catalogue, and check out — all conversationally.

flowchart LR
  Fan1[Fan A] --> Ranveer((ranveer.ai<br/>agent))
  Fan2[Fan B] --> Ranveer
  FanN[Fan N] --> Ranveer
  Ranveer --> Cat[Catalogue + drops]
  Ranveer --> Pay[UPI checkout]
  Ranveer --> CRM[Per-fan memory<br/>tenant-isolated]
  Ranveer --> Dash[Operator dashboard<br/>volume · sentiment · queue]

kichcha.ai, alluarjun.ai — celebrity engagement

Fan utilities, content drops, regional-language interactions, controlled Q&A. Same pattern as ranveer.ai with a different persona, catalogue, and language defaults (Kannada, Telugu, etc. via Bhashini).

jananayagan.ai — political platform

Citizens of a constituency message the agent on WhatsApp. The agent triages the request, identifies the right department or MLA, routes it into the back office, tracks status, and reports back. The politician gets a central dashboard: live volume by topic, regional heat-maps, list of items pending action.

flowchart TB
  C1[Citizen A] --> JN((jananayagan.ai<br/>agent))
  C2[Citizen B] --> JN
  CN[Citizen N] --> JN
  JN --> Triage{Triage<br/>+ classify}
  Triage --> Water[Water dept]
  Triage --> Roads[Roads / PWD]
  Triage --> Health[Health dept]
  Triage --> MLA[Local MLA office]
  Water --> Status[(Status DB)]
  Roads --> Status
  Health --> Status
  MLA --> Status
  Status --> Dash[Politician dashboard<br/>topics · regions · SLA]
  Status --> JN
  JN --> C1

sahayak.ai — the generic personal-agent distribution

Sahayak itself is the distribution surface for the default personal agent — the one users get when they don't pick a branded one. See V2 — Personal assistant.

Why a conversational agent beats a website at scale

  • Zero friction. No app to install, no portal to learn. If you have WhatsApp, you have the product.
  • Multilingual by default. Bhashini handles voice and text in 22 Indian languages — no need for a website per region.
  • Identity-bound. Every citizen / fan is anchored to an ind.ai handle, so context survives across sessions and channels.
  • Routing, not just publishing. A government website tells you what exists; a routing agent acts on your specific request.
  • Operator gets analytics for free. Every conversation is a structured signal; no separate analytics build.
Product Vision · 5

Agent-to-agent interactions

When two agents talk on behalf of their humans — the protocol that removes scheduling, intros and routine coordination from human inboxes.

The most leveraged interaction on ind.ai is not human-to-agent, it is agent-to-agent. Once both sides of a transaction have an identity-bound agent, the routine back-and-forth — "are you free Thursday?", "can you send the invoice?", "is the order ready?" — happens between agents while the humans see only the resolved outcome.

Canonical example — scheduling

User 1 asks their agent to set up a meeting with User 2. User 1's agent contacts User 2's agent at ind.ai/user2, exchanges availability windows under each side's policy, agrees on a slot, books both calendars, and notifies both humans.

sequenceDiagram
  participant U1 as User 1
  participant A1 as User 1's agent
  participant A2 as User 2's agent (ind.ai/user2)
  participant U2 as User 2
  U1->>A1: "Set up 30 min with User 2 this week"
  A1->>A2: Intent: meeting · 30 min · this week
  A2->>A2: Check User 2's policy + calendar
  A2->>A1: Free: Wed 4pm, Thu 11am, Fri 2pm
  A1->>A1: Match against User 1's calendar
  A1->>A2: Propose Thu 11am
  A2->>A1: Confirmed
  A1->>U1: Booked · Thu 11am
  A2->>U2: Booked · Thu 11am

Other A2A scenarios

  • Agent ↔ brand agent. Alice's personal agent asks ranveer.ai for a personalised drop based on her past purchases.
  • Agent ↔ government agent. A citizen's personal agent files a request via jananayagan.ai, polls for status, surfaces it on resolution.
  • Agent ↔ business agent. A buyer's agent negotiates basic terms with a seller's agent on ONDC before the humans review.
  • Group coordination. Five agents converging on a common free slot across a five-person meeting.

What makes the protocol work

  • Verifiable identity. Every agent speaks under a real ind.ai handle, so the receiving side knows who it is dealing with.
  • Policy enforcement on both ends. Each agent only commits to what its owner's policy permits. Higher-stakes actions get bounced to the human.
  • Structured intents. Agents exchange typed intents (meet, share, ask, pay, book) rather than free prose — keeps the loop short and auditable.
  • Audit trail. Every A2A turn is logged on both sides; either human can replay the conversation that led to the outcome.

Status today: identity, public widget and per-agent policy are in build in-build; the structured A2A handshake (intent envelope, capability advertisement, commitment ledger) is designed and not yet shippedplanned. See Model A — tools & actionsfor how the handshake will be expressed as a first-class tool, and Model A — security for the policy enforcement points.

Product Vision · 6

Mapping vision to runtime (Model A)

How each product role lands on the 3-tier runtime — which tiers dominate, which tools are exposed, which memory slice is read.

This is the bridge between the product narrative (V1–V5) and the engineering documentation (Part One — Model A). Each role uses the same runtime; what differs is which tiers dominate the prompt, whichtools are exposed, and which memory slice the agent is allowed to read.

Role → runtime mapping

RoleSurfaceDominant tierTool paletteMemory scope
1 — Personal (inward)WhatsApp · sahayak.aiHUMANFull personal palette (UPI, DigiLocker, ABDM, ONDC, calendar, drafting)Private — full
1b — Personal (work)sahayak.ai/proHUMAN + COMPANY-TEAMPersonal + work tools (email, meetings, CRM, expenses)Private + scoped business memory
2 — Public (peer)ind.ai/<username>AGENT + HUMAN public-policy layerLimited (calendar read, share doc, A2A handshake)Public memory slice only
3 — Distributionranveer.ai, jananayagan.ai, kichcha.ai, alluarjun.aiCOMPANY-TEAMScoped per vertical (commerce, routing, ticketing, ONDC)Tenant-isolated, per-end-user thread
A2A — handshakeAnywhereAGENT + originating tier's policyStructured intent envelope + commitment ledgerPer-relationship slice

What this means in practice

  • The HUMAN tier is the source of truth for who the user is and what they will and won't allow — read by every role, but most visibly by Role 1.
  • The COMPANY-TEAM tier carries the brand persona, the tenant's tools and the operator dashboard binding — central to Role 3, additive in Role 1b.
  • The AGENT tier carries the persona's voice and the public-policy layer — the only tier visible by default in Role 2.
  • Tool exposure is the strongest lever: same agent, different palette per role, enforced server-side.
  • Memory scoping prevents leakage across roles — a public visitor can never read private memory; a distribution-tenant operator can never read another tenant's threads.

Now read the runtime

Model A — Primary runtime · 1

1. Philosophy of the 3-tier model

Why personality, role, and runtime are separate layers — and what each tier owns.

1.1 Why three tiers and not one

A flat prompt collapses three different concerns into one blob: who is speaking, what job they are doing, and how the model executes that job. Once those collapse, every change to one concern risks regressing the other two. Splitting them out is the difference between "we shipped a quick agent" and "we run a fleet".

1.2 What problems a flat prompt has that this solves

  • Persona drift — voice and identity erode as session history grows; with a separate HUMAN tier, identity is re-injected every turn from a stable source.
  • Role confusion — when the persona "Sahayak" tries to behave like a commerce agent on Monday and a productivity agent on Tuesday, the model conflates them; the COMPANY-TEAM tier pins the active role.
  • Guardrail bleed — a payment-rule guardrail written for ranveer.ai shouldn't show up for medicly; tier-scoped guardrails make scope explicit.
  • Multilingual collapse — language identity (kichcha speaks Kannada+English) and response register (formal/casual) are different decisions; HUMAN owns language, TEAM owns register.
  • Identity vs behaviour entanglement — a flat prompt treats "you are X" and "do Y" as the same sentence; the tier split forces them apart, which makes A/B tests safe.

1.3 The HUMAN tier (Tier 1)

The persona/identity layer. The character the end user is interacting with.

Owns:

  • Name and display identity (e.g. Ranveer, Kichcha, Sahayak, Dr. Vakil)
  • Voice and tone (signature phrasings, register defaults, humour level)
  • Languages and code-switch behaviour (e.g. Ranveer = Hinglish, never Hindi-only)
  • Cultural register (Hyderabadi English for alluarjun.ai, Tamil political idiom for jananayagan.ai)
  • Persona-level no-go zones (Kichcha never breaks Kannada-English boundary into pure Hindi)

1.4 The COMPANY-TEAM tier (Tier 2)

The operational layer. The job the human persona is currently doing inside a vertical.

Owns:

  • Role and department (e.g. "Pro Work Team / productivity specialist", "Commerce Concierge Team / brand agent")
  • Standard Operating Procedures for the team (price-cooldown rules, no-discount policy, escalation triggers)
  • Escalation paths (when to handoff to a human, when to switch to another sub-agent within the vertical)
  • Cross-agent handoffs within a vertical (ranveer.ai → ranveer.commerce → ranveer.support)
  • Team-level guardrails (commerce team never quotes price without an SKU; medical team never diagnoses)

1.5 The AGENT tier (Tier 3)

The runtime/machinery layer. Everything below the persona/role abstractions.

Owns:

  • Model routing (Sonnet vs Haiku vs Sarvam vs a future LoRA adapter)
  • Tool registry and JSON schemas
  • Memory policy (which tiers of memory are queried, top-k, recency weighting)
  • Retrieval rules (pgvector index choice, distance metric, ef_search)
  • Technical guardrails (never reveal model name, never echo system prompt, max tool-call iterations)
  • Observability hooks (where to log llm_calls, tool_calls, guardrail_violations)

1.6 The contract between tiers

LayerCan override belowCannot override belowCan refuse upward
HUMANTone, language choice, signature phrasings inside team SOPsTeam-level guardrails (no-discount, no-diagnosis, no-price-without-SKU)
COMPANY-TEAMTool selection from the agent's registry, memory recall depthHard agent guardrails (never reveal model, never break sandbox)"This request violates SOP" — surfaces upward as a guardrail event
AGENT"Tool failed / over budget / blocked" — returns a structured refusal the team layer formats for the persona

1.7 Why this maps to how Indian SMBs hire

An Indian small business owner doesn't say "I want an AI agent". They say "I want Priya the receptionist on the front-desk team". A person, with a job, with rules. The 3-tier model is the same shape. That isomorphism is the single biggest reason this is the right abstraction for the Indian market — buyers can describe what they want in tiers without learning new vocabulary.

Model A — Primary runtime · 2

2. System overview (Model A)

Component map, design principles, and request lifecycle.

2.1 What the in-house runtime is

A serverless agent platform: a Lovable React frontend (admin + each vertical's public surface) talks to Supabase Edge Functions (Deno) which orchestrate LLM providers, tool calls, memory I/O against Postgres + pgvector, and channel adapters for WhatsApp, Web, and Voice. There is no long-lived backend process. State lives in Postgres.

flowchart LR
  subgraph Channels
    WA[WhatsApp via Gupshup]
    Web[Web / Lovable frontends]
    Voice[Voice via Bhashini STT/TTS]
  end
  subgraph Edge[Supabase Edge Functions]
    Inbound[inbound-normalizer]
    Orchestrator[agent-orchestrator]
    Tools[tool-dispatcher]
  end
  subgraph Data[Supabase Postgres]
    PG[(Core tables)]
    Vec[(pgvector)]
    Vault[(Vault: secrets)]
    Store[(Storage)]
  end
  subgraph LLM[LLM providers]
    Claude[Anthropic]
    Gemini[Google]
    Sarvam[Sarvam]
  end
  DPI[DPI gateways: UPI, DigiLocker, AA, ABDM]
  Razor[Razorpay]
  WA --> Inbound
  Web --> Inbound
  Voice --> Inbound
  Inbound --> Orchestrator
  Orchestrator <--> PG
  Orchestrator <--> Vec
  Orchestrator --> LLM
  Orchestrator --> Tools
  Tools --> Razor
  Tools --> DPI
  Tools --> Vault
  Orchestrator --> WA
  Orchestrator --> Web
  Orchestrator --> Voice

2.2 Core design principles

  • DPI-rooted — identity keys (phone), payments (UPI/Razorpay Route), document verification (DigiLocker), consent (AA), health (ABDM) are first-class, not afterthoughts.
  • Multilingual-first — every prompt, every guardrail, every error message is designed assuming the user is not writing in English.
  • Channel-agnostic — a single agent runtime serves WhatsApp, Web, and Voice via an envelope abstraction. Channel-specific formatting happens at the edges.
  • Memory-first — the agent's value compounds with what it remembers about a user. Memory is a tier, not a feature.
  • Serverless-by-default — Edge Functions are stateless; horizontal scale is the database's problem, not ours.

2.3 Component map

LayerComponentUsed for
SupabasePostgresAll persistent state: tier configs, sessions, messages, memory facts, llm_calls
AuthGoogle OAuth (admins, owners). End-user identity keyed by phone.
Edge Functions (Deno)Inbound webhooks, agent orchestrator, tool dispatcher, memory consolidator
StorageMedia attachments, agent avatars, Model B's 7 .md files (transitional)
RealtimeWeb streaming, admin live-conversation panel
pgvectorEpisodic/semantic memory, retrieval over team knowledge
LovableAdmin dashboardTier configuration, observability surfaces, content management
Vertical frontends/sahayak/pro, /ranveer, /kichcha, /alluarjun, /jananayagan, …
Public agent widgetEmbedded chat on profile pages
ExternalAnthropic, Google, Sarvam APIsLLM inference
Razorpay (Route)Split payments for commerce agents
GupshupWhatsApp Business API
Bhashini, DPI gatewaysVoice STT/TTS, identity/health/consent rails

2.4 Request lifecycle

sequenceDiagram
  participant U as User
  participant Ch as Channel adapter
  participant N as Edge: inbound-normalizer
  participant O as Edge: agent-orchestrator
  participant PG as Postgres
  participant V as pgvector
  participant L as LLM
  participant T as Tool dispatcher
  U->>Ch: Message (WA / Web / Voice)
  Ch->>N: Webhook payload
  N->>PG: upsert user, session, message (inbound)
  N->>O: invoke with session_id
  O->>PG: resolve agent_binding -> human + team + agent rows
  O->>PG: load recent messages
  O->>V: top-k memory recall (user × binding)
  O->>O: assemble prompt (HUMAN + TEAM + AGENT layers)
  O->>L: LLM call (with tool schemas)
  L-->>O: response or tool_calls
  alt tool_calls
    O->>T: dispatch tools
    T-->>O: tool results
    O->>L: continue (with results)
    L-->>O: final response
  end
  O->>PG: insert message (outbound), llm_calls, tool_calls
  O->>Ch: send via channel adapter
  Ch->>U: deliver

2.5 Channel adapters

WhatsApp

Gupshup webhook → whatsapp-inbound Edge Function. Signature validated. Payload normalised into the common envelope: { channel: "whatsapp", from, to, text|media, metadata }. Outbound via whatsapp-send with rate-limit-aware batching. No streaming on WhatsApp — Gupshup is request/response.

Web

Lovable frontend posts via a public Edge Function or subscribes to Supabase Realtime for streamed tokens. Identity: optional auth (admin/owner); for end users, an anonymous session_id stored in localStorage maps to a Postgres session row. Phone is linked only after explicit consent.

Voice

Bhashini STT → text envelope → orchestrator → response text → Bhashini TTS → audio response. The orchestrator does not know it is voice; an envelope hint channel: "voice" nudges the AGENT tier to prefer sentence-broken, plain-text output.

Model A — Primary runtime · 3

3. Data model (Model A)

Full Postgres schema, multi-tenancy, pgvector configuration.

3.1 Full Postgres schema

Everything below is the target schema for Model A. Status: in-build. Field-level RLS skeletons omitted for brevity — see §3.2.

sql
-- ───── Tier 0: tenants (verticals) ─────
create table tenants (
  id uuid primary key default gen_random_uuid(),
  slug text not null unique,                 -- sahayak, ranveer, kichcha, medicly, vakil, …
  display_name text not null,
  status text not null default 'active',     -- active | paused | archived
  created_at timestamptz not null default now()
);

-- ───── Tier 1: HUMAN (personas) ─────
create table humans (
  id uuid primary key default gen_random_uuid(),
  tenant_id uuid not null references tenants(id) on delete cascade,
  slug text not null,                        -- sahayak, ranveer, kichcha, dr-vakil
  display_name text not null,
  voice jsonb not null default '{}',         -- tone, register, signature phrasings
  languages text[] not null default '{}',    -- ISO codes; first is default
  cultural_register text,                    -- e.g. 'hyderabadi-english', 'kannada-formal'
  guardrails jsonb not null default '[]',    -- persona-level rules
  version int not null default 1,
  created_at timestamptz not null default now(),
  updated_at timestamptz not null default now(),
  unique (tenant_id, slug)
);

-- ───── Tier 2: COMPANY-TEAM (roles) ─────
create table teams (
  id uuid primary key default gen_random_uuid(),
  tenant_id uuid not null references tenants(id) on delete cascade,
  slug text not null,                        -- pro-work, commerce-concierge, fertility-patient
  display_name text not null,
  department text,                           -- 'sales', 'support', 'commerce', 'clinical'
  sops jsonb not null default '[]',          -- ordered list of SOP blocks
  escalation jsonb not null default '{}',    -- when to handoff and to whom
  allowed_handoffs uuid[] not null default '{}', -- team ids in same tenant
  guardrails jsonb not null default '[]',    -- team-level rules
  version int not null default 1,
  created_at timestamptz not null default now(),
  updated_at timestamptz not null default now(),
  unique (tenant_id, slug)
);

-- join: which humans staff which teams
create table team_members (
  team_id uuid not null references teams(id) on delete cascade,
  human_id uuid not null references humans(id) on delete cascade,
  primary key (team_id, human_id)
);

-- ───── Tier 3: AGENT (runtime configs) ─────
create table agents (
  id uuid primary key default gen_random_uuid(),
  tenant_id uuid not null references tenants(id) on delete cascade,
  slug text not null,                        -- standard-productivity, commerce-payments, voice-fast
  display_name text not null,
  model_routing jsonb not null default '{}', -- {default: 'claude-sonnet-4', cheap: 'gemini-2.5-flash', …}
  tools jsonb not null default '[]',         -- [{name, schema, endpoint, auth}]
  memory_policy jsonb not null default '{}', -- {episodic_topk: 5, facts: true, decay: 'recency'}
  retrieval jsonb not null default '{}',     -- {index: 'hnsw', metric: 'cosine', ef_search: 64}
  guardrails jsonb not null default '[]',    -- technical guardrails
  max_tool_iterations int not null default 4,
  version int not null default 1,
  created_at timestamptz not null default now(),
  updated_at timestamptz not null default now(),
  unique (tenant_id, slug)
);

-- ───── Composition: human + team + agent = deployable instance ─────
create table agent_bindings (
  id uuid primary key default gen_random_uuid(),
  tenant_id uuid not null references tenants(id) on delete cascade,
  slug text not null,                        -- 'sahayak-pro-work', 'ranveer-commerce'
  human_id uuid not null references humans(id),
  team_id uuid not null references teams(id),
  agent_id uuid not null references agents(id),
  channels text[] not null default '{whatsapp,web}',
  routing_key text,                          -- WA inbound 'to' number OR web domain
  is_active boolean not null default true,
  created_at timestamptz not null default now(),
  unique (tenant_id, slug),
  unique (routing_key)
);

-- ───── Versioning ─────
create table tier_config_versions (
  id uuid primary key default gen_random_uuid(),
  tier text not null check (tier in ('human','team','agent')),
  tier_id uuid not null,
  version int not null,
  config jsonb not null,
  created_by uuid,
  created_at timestamptz not null default now(),
  unique (tier, tier_id, version)
);

-- ───── End users & sessions ─────
create table users (
  id uuid primary key default gen_random_uuid(),
  phone text unique,                         -- identity key
  display_name text,
  locale text,
  created_at timestamptz not null default now()
);

create table sessions (
  id uuid primary key default gen_random_uuid(),
  user_id uuid not null references users(id) on delete cascade,
  binding_id uuid not null references agent_bindings(id),
  channel text not null,
  started_at timestamptz not null default now(),
  last_active_at timestamptz not null default now(),
  state jsonb not null default '{}'
);
create index sessions_user_binding_active on sessions (user_id, binding_id, last_active_at desc);

-- ───── Turns ─────
create table messages (
  id uuid primary key default gen_random_uuid(),
  session_id uuid not null references sessions(id) on delete cascade,
  direction text not null check (direction in ('inbound','outbound')),
  channel text not null,
  body text,
  media jsonb,
  metadata jsonb not null default '{}',
  created_at timestamptz not null default now()
);
create index messages_session_created on messages (session_id, created_at desc);

create table tool_calls (
  id uuid primary key default gen_random_uuid(),
  session_id uuid not null references sessions(id) on delete cascade,
  message_id uuid references messages(id),
  tool_name text not null,
  args jsonb not null,
  result jsonb,
  latency_ms int,
  error text,
  created_at timestamptz not null default now()
);

create table llm_calls (
  id uuid primary key default gen_random_uuid(),
  session_id uuid references sessions(id) on delete cascade,
  binding_id uuid references agent_bindings(id),
  provider text not null,                    -- 'anthropic', 'google', 'sarvam'
  model text not null,
  tokens_in int not null,
  tokens_out int not null,
  cache_hit_tokens int not null default 0,
  cost_usd numeric(12,6),
  latency_ms int not null,
  ttft_ms int,
  metadata jsonb not null default '{}',      -- per-tier token breakdown
  created_at timestamptz not null default now()
);
create index llm_calls_binding_day on llm_calls (binding_id, created_at desc);

-- ───── Memory ─────
create table memory_facts (
  id uuid primary key default gen_random_uuid(),
  scope text not null check (scope in ('user_binding','team','human')),
  scope_id uuid not null,                    -- user×binding composite encoded, or team_id, or human_id
  key text not null,
  value jsonb not null,
  source_message_id uuid references messages(id),
  confidence numeric(3,2),
  created_at timestamptz not null default now(),
  updated_at timestamptz not null default now()
);
create index memory_facts_scope on memory_facts (scope, scope_id, key);

create extension if not exists vector;
create table memory_embeddings (
  id uuid primary key default gen_random_uuid(),
  scope text not null,                       -- 'user_binding' | 'team' | 'human'
  scope_id uuid not null,
  kind text not null,                        -- 'episodic' | 'semantic' | 'document'
  content text not null,
  embedding vector(1536),
  source_ref jsonb,
  created_at timestamptz not null default now()
);
create index memory_embeddings_hnsw on memory_embeddings
  using hnsw (embedding vector_cosine_ops);
create index memory_embeddings_scope on memory_embeddings (scope, scope_id);

-- ───── Guardrail violations ─────
create table guardrail_violations (
  id uuid primary key default gen_random_uuid(),
  session_id uuid references sessions(id),
  binding_id uuid references agent_bindings(id),
  tier text not null check (tier in ('human','team','agent')),
  rule_id text not null,
  severity text not null,                    -- 'block' | 'rewrite' | 'log'
  outbound_was_blocked boolean not null default false,
  context jsonb,
  created_at timestamptz not null default now()
);

3.2 Multi-tenancy

Every tier table carries tenant_id. RLS pattern (security-definer function, to avoid recursion):

sql
create or replace function public.current_tenant_id()
returns uuid language sql stable security definer set search_path = public as $$
  select t.id from tenants t
  join user_roles ur on ur.tenant_id = t.id
  where ur.user_id = auth.uid()
  limit 1
$$;

-- example policy
create policy "tenant isolation: humans" on humans
  for all using (tenant_id = public.current_tenant_id());

3.3 pgvector configuration

  • Dimensions: 1536 (OpenAI text-embedding-3-small compatible). [TBD] — Gemini embedding-001 is 768; if we standardise on Gemini we re-key.
  • Distance: cosine (vector_cosine_ops). Good fit for normalised sentence embeddings.
  • Index: HNSW (recall stable as table grows; latency stays sub-10ms up to mid-millions of rows).
  • Tuning: default ef_construction=64, m=16; SET hnsw.ef_search per query (default 40, raise to 64 for high-stakes recall). [TBM]
  • Alternative considered: IVFFlat. Rejected for early phase — needs re-training as data grows; HNSW is monotonic.

3.4 Tier composition examples

Worked rows from agent_bindings (slug → human × team × agent):

json
[
  {
    "slug": "sahayak-pro-work",
    "human": "sahayak",
    "team": "pro-work",
    "agent": "standard-productivity",
    "channels": ["whatsapp", "web"]
  },
  {
    "slug": "ranveer-commerce",
    "human": "ranveer",
    "team": "commerce-concierge",
    "agent": "commerce-payments",
    "channels": ["whatsapp", "web"],
    "routing_key": "ranveer.ai"
  },
  {
    "slug": "kichcha-fan",
    "human": "kichcha",
    "team": "fan-engagement",
    "agent": "standard-productivity",
    "channels": ["web", "whatsapp"]
  },
  {
    "slug": "medicly-clinic-fertility-in",
    "human": "medicly-clinic-coach",
    "team": "fertility-clinic-india",
    "agent": "clinical-b2b",
    "channels": ["whatsapp"]
  }
]

Note that standard-productivity as an AGENT row is reused across multiple bindings — Kichcha (fan engagement) and Sahayak (Pro work) both use it, with different HUMAN and TEAM rows on top. That reuse is the whole point of the tier split.

Model A — Primary runtime · 4

4. Tier resolution & prompt assembly (Model A)

The most important section. How a message becomes a prompt.

4.1 Resolution order

flowchart TD
  M[Inbound message envelope] --> RK{routing_key?}
  RK -->|WA 'to' number| B1[lookup agent_bindings by routing_key]
  RK -->|Web hostname| B1
  B1 --> B[agent_binding row]
  B --> H[load humans by human_id]
  B --> T[load teams by team_id]
  B --> A[load agents by agent_id]
  H --> X[merge into prompt skeleton]
  T --> X
  A --> X
  X --> Y[append session history + memory recall]
  Y --> Z[LLM call]

The orchestrator looks up agent_bindings by routing_key (WhatsApp inbound number or web hostname). That gives the three tier ids. Each tier is fetched in parallel — three indexed PK lookups, batched.

Cache: tier rows are cached in Edge Function memory by (tier, id, version) for the function's warm lifetime. A small Realtime subscription on tier_config_versions invalidates on bump. [TBD] Realtime push vs short TTL — see §10.

4.2 Full prompt skeleton

text
╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ [HUMAN]  identity block            ─ humans.display_name + voice.signature   ║
║ [HUMAN]  voice block               ─ humans.voice (tone, register)           ║
║ [HUMAN]  language block            ─ humans.languages + cultural_register    ║
║ [HUMAN]  persona guardrails        ─ humans.guardrails[]                     ║
╠══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╣
║ [TEAM]   role block                ─ teams.display_name + department         ║
║ [TEAM]   SOP block                 ─ teams.sops[]                            ║
║ [TEAM]   handoff rules             ─ teams.escalation + allowed_handoffs     ║
║ [TEAM]   team guardrails           ─ teams.guardrails[]                     ║
╠══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╣
║ [AGENT]  static                                                              ║
║   tool specs                       ─ agents.tools[].schema                   ║
║   technical guardrails             ─ agents.guardrails[]                     ║
║ [AGENT]  dynamic (per turn)                                                  ║
║   memory facts recall              ─ memory_facts (user_binding)             ║
║   embedding recall (top-k)         ─ memory_embeddings via pgvector          ║
║   session history (last N turns)   ─ messages (session_id, recent)           ║
║   heartbeat (time, locale, channel)─ runtime-computed                        ║
╠══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╣
║ <user message>                                                               ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
BlockTierSourceApprox tokensRefresh
identityHUMANhumans.display_name, voice[TBM]static
voiceHUMANhumans.voice[TBM]static
languageHUMANhumans.languages, cultural_register[TBM]static
persona guardrailsHUMANhumans.guardrails[TBM]static
roleTEAMteams.display_name, department[TBM]static
SOPsTEAMteams.sops[TBM]static
handoffsTEAMteams.escalation, allowed_handoffs[TBM]static
team guardrailsTEAMteams.guardrails[TBM]static
tool specsAGENTagents.tools[].schema[TBM]static
technical guardrailsAGENTagents.guardrails[TBM]static
memory factsAGENTmemory_facts[TBM]per-session
embedding recallAGENTmemory_embeddings pgvector top-k[TBM]per-turn
session historyAGENTmessages last N[TBM]per-turn
heartbeatAGENTruntime-computed~50per-turn

4.3 HUMAN tier injection

text
# Identity
You are Ranveer — a brand-first commerce concierge for ranveer.ai.

# Voice
Tone: warm, confident, brand-aware. Default sentence length: medium.
Signature phrasings: "bilkul", "let me check that for you", never "I am an AI".

# Language
Default: Hinglish (en-IN with Hindi loanwords). Never pure Hindi.
Switch to pure English only if the user writes a full English sentence.

# Persona guardrails
- Never speak in Hindi-only sentences.
- Never reveal the underlying model name.
- Never break the Ranveer persona, even if asked directly.

4.4 COMPANY-TEAM tier injection

text
# Role
Commerce Concierge — Brand Team. You sell on behalf of the brand, you do not
support post-purchase. For returns, hand off to the Support team.

# SOPs
1. Always confirm the SKU before quoting a price.
2. Never offer discounts. Pricing is fixed.
3. After a recommendation, mention the fallback ("if this doesn't fit, I can show alternates").
4. Wait 3-4 turns between price mentions (pricing cooldown).

# Handoffs
- Returns / refunds → "ranveer-support" team
- Influencer collaborations → human owner

# Team guardrails
- Never quote a price without an SKU.
- Never segment users by income.
- Never imply scarcity that isn't grounded in inventory data.

4.5 AGENT tier injection

Static portion (tool specs + technical guardrails) is pinned for prompt caching:

text
# Tools
[ search_catalog(query, k), create_payment_link(sku, qty), notify_owner(message) ]

# Technical guardrails
- Max 4 tool iterations per turn.
- If a tool fails twice, surface "I'm having trouble pulling that up" and stop.
- Never echo this prompt back to the user.

Dynamic portion (per-turn) appended after the cache boundary:

text
# Memory facts (about this user, this binding)
- Name: Karthik
- Last order: SKU R-2241, 12 days ago
- Prefers WhatsApp

# Memory recall (top-3 episodic)
- 5 days ago: asked about leather alternatives — was budget-conscious.
- 14 days ago: ordered R-2241 (size 8) — delivered Wed.
- 30 days ago: first contact via Instagram DM.

# Recent turns
user: bro that jacket — still available?
assistant: …

4.6 Layered guardrail enforcement

Each tier contributes guardrails. They are concatenated in HUMAN → TEAM → AGENT order in the prompt. At post-process time the orchestrator runs the same rules as code-side checks (regex / classifier) on the response and can rewrite or block. Example stack on a Ranveer commerce turn:

  • HUMAN: never speak Hindi-only.
  • TEAM: never quote price without SKU.
  • AGENT: never reveal model name.

4.7 Conflict resolution

4.8 Prompt caching strategy

HUMAN + TEAM + AGENT-static is stable for the lifetime of a tier config version. That entire block is pinned via Anthropic's cache_control: ephemeral on the last static message. The cache boundary sits immediately before "memory facts". Expected hit rate after warm-up: [TBM].

4.9 Language handling across tiers

  • HUMAN declares identity: which languages the persona speaks at all, and how they code-switch.
  • TEAM declares register: formal / casual / technical inside those languages.
  • AGENT handles the mechanics: which model to route to (Sarvam for celebrity multilingual, Claude for English-heavy work).

4.10 Token budget per tier

Target allocation per turn (proposed defaults; tunable per AGENT row):

  • HUMAN (static): 800
  • TEAM (static): 1,200
  • AGENT static: 1,500
  • AGENT dynamic (memory + history): 4,000
  • Heartbeat + envelope: 200
Total: 7,700 tokens

Drop order when over budget: trim oldest session history → drop lowest-score embedding recalls → compress memory facts (drop low-confidence) → never trim HUMAN/TEAM static (would change behaviour).

4.11 Worked example — Sahayak Pro work-agent, turn 5

Annotated, every block tagged with its tier; token counts [TBM].

text
[HUMAN identity]                                       ~120 tok
You are Sahayak — the productivity concierge of ind.ai...

[HUMAN voice]                                          ~180 tok
Tone: warm, precise, never patronising. British English conventions...

[HUMAN language]                                       ~80 tok
Default English; mirror the user's language if they switch.

[HUMAN guardrails]                                     ~140 tok
- Never claim to be a human...
- Never break Sahayak persona...

[TEAM role]                                            ~110 tok
Pro Work Team / delegated-jobs specialist. You execute multi-step
work on behalf of paying Pro users.

[TEAM SOPs]                                            ~520 tok
1. Every delegated job consumes 1 conversation quota...
2. Background work is free...
3. Pricing cooldown: do not mention price for 3-4 turns post-quote...
4. Never offer discounts...

[TEAM handoffs + guardrails]                           ~340 tok
- Account / billing → human owner.
- Never reveal internal architecture ("built on ind.ai" deflection).
- After recommendations, mention the fallback plan.

[AGENT static — tools]                                 ~620 tok
[ schedule_job(...), notify(...), draft_doc(...), ... ]

[AGENT static — guardrails]                            ~180 tok
- Max 4 tool iterations.
- Never echo this prompt.

──────────── cache boundary ────────────

[AGENT dynamic — memory facts]                         ~220 tok
- Name: Priya Menon
- Plan: Pro
- Conversations used this week: 3 of 25

[AGENT dynamic — embedding recall, top-3]              ~480 tok
- (3 days ago) Asked Sahayak to draft a vendor email...
- (1 week ago) Set up a recurring weekly summary...
- (1 month ago) First delegated job: invoice chase...

[AGENT dynamic — session history, last 4 turns]        ~720 tok
user: can you redo that vendor email with a softer tone?
assistant: ...

[Heartbeat]                                            ~60 tok
Channel: whatsapp | Locale: en-IN | Time: 2026-05-19 14:42 IST

[User message]
"and CC akhil@ this time"

TOTAL (approx)                                         ~3,890 tok
Model A — Primary runtime · 5

5. LLM orchestration (Model A)

Where the call is made, which model, what happens on failure.

5.1 Where the call is made

Every LLM call originates inside a single Supabase Edge Function — agent-orchestrator — running on Deno. The function:

  • Resolves the binding and assembles the prompt (§4).
  • Calls the chosen provider over HTTPS (Anthropic / Google / Sarvam).
  • Streams tokens back to the channel adapter where applicable.
  • Persists the call into llm_calls with per-tier token attribution.
typescript
// Edge Function (Deno) — sketch
export default async (req: Request) => {
  const { session_id } = await req.json();
  const ctx = await loadContext(session_id);          // binding + tiers + memory + history
  const messages = assemblePrompt(ctx);
  const route = pickModel(ctx.agent);                 // §5.2
  const t0 = performance.now();
  const stream = await providers[route.provider].stream({
    model: route.model,
    messages,
    tools: ctx.agent.tools,
    cache_control: { type: "ephemeral" },
  });
  // … pipe tokens; capture tool_calls; loop if needed (§5.4)
  await logLLMCall({ ...attribution(ctx), latency_ms: performance.now() - t0 });
};

5.2 Model routing

ClassModel (default)When
Complex reasoningClaude Sonnet (latest)Default for work-agents, multi-step tool use
Cheap classify / summariseClaude Haiku / Gemini FlashIntent classification, memory consolidation, holding-line generation
Multilingual personaSarvam-30BCelebrity / regional verticals (kichcha, alluarjun, jananayagan)
Voice-fast[TBD] — Gemini Flash or Sarvam streamingVoice channel, low TTFB priority
Persona-LoRA (future)plannedPer-HUMAN fine-tuned adapter when economics justify it

Routing rules live in agents.model_routing:

json
{
  "default": { "provider": "anthropic", "model": "claude-sonnet-4-5" },
  "cheap":   { "provider": "google",    "model": "gemini-2.5-flash" },
  "multilingual": { "provider": "sarvam", "model": "sarvam-30b" },
  "router_strategy": "rule"  // 'rule' | 'classifier' | 'hybrid'
}

5.3 Router logic

  • rule (default) — pick by AGENT row + channel hint. Zero extra latency.
  • classifier — one cheap Haiku/Flash call to label intent, then route. Adds 150–400 ms of TTFB. [TBM]
  • hybrid — rule first; classifier only if the message is ambiguous (heuristic: length < 6 tokens OR contains escalation keywords).

5.4 Tool-calling loop

  • Cap: agents.max_tool_iterations (default 4).
  • At cap: surface "I'm having trouble pulling that up" + log a guardrail_violation of severity log.
  • Tool results are appended as a tool-role message and re-fed to the model. Streaming continues from the same Edge invocation.
  • Tool errors return structured JSON: { ok: false, code, retryable }. The model is instructed to surface user-friendly text and not echo error codes.

5.5 Streaming

  • Web: yes. Server-sent events from the Edge Function, or a Supabase Realtime channel keyed by session_id. Tokens flush in chunks of ~25 tokens to avoid per-character network overhead.
  • WhatsApp: no streaming (Gupshup is request/response). The orchestrator buffers until the full response is ready or until a soft cap (~3s) is hit, in which case it sends a "thinking…" placeholder reaction (via the WA reaction API) and continues.
  • Voice: streams are chunked at sentence boundaries; each sentence flushed to Bhashini TTS as it completes.

5.6 Fallback chain

text
primary: Claude Sonnet
  on timeout(8s) | 429 | 5xx        → retry once (jittered backoff 300–800ms)
  on 2nd failure                     → fallback to Claude Haiku
  on 3rd failure                     → fallback to Gemini Flash
  on 4th failure                     → graceful degrade:
    "Sorry — I'm having a slow moment. Please try again in a few seconds."
    (mark message as degraded; do not bill the user's quota)

5.7 Concurrency model

  • Edge Functions are stateless and horizontally scaled by Supabase. No in-memory session state — everything via Postgres.
  • Per-invocation wall-clock cap on Supabase Edge is finite (today: 150s hard; we target < 30s for any single turn). Tool calls that exceed this are dispatched to a separate Edge Function and the orchestrator returns "working on it" with a follow-up push when the tool completes.
  • Idempotency: every inbound webhook carries a provider-side message id; we upsert messages on that id, so retries are safe.
Model A — Primary runtime · 6

6. Memory architecture (Model A)

Three memory tiers, scoping, read/write paths, consolidation.

6.1 Memory tiers (Supabase-native)

TierTableRead patternWrite cadence
Hot session historymessagesper turn, last N by session_idevery turn (sync)
Persistent factsmemory_factsper turn, by scope + keyper turn (async) + consolidation jobs
Episodic / semanticmemory_embeddings (pgvector)per turn, top-k by cosine distanceasync extraction; batch consolidation

6.2 Memory scoping across the 3 tiers

  • HUMAN-scope memory — knowledge inherent to the persona (Ranveer's brand catalogue, Kichcha's filmography). Curated; rarely written at runtime.
  • TEAM-scope memory — organisational knowledge (SOPs, product catalogue, policy docs). Authored by admins; written via the admin dashboard, embedded on update.
  • user × binding memory — this specific user's history with this specific binding. The bulk of runtime writes go here.

The composite scope key for user × binding is encoded as a deterministic UUID (e.g. uuid_generate_v5(namespace, user_id || ':' || binding_id)) so it fits the polymorphic memory_*.scope_id column.

6.3 Memory write path

sequenceDiagram
  participant O as Orchestrator
  participant PG as Postgres
  participant Q as pg_cron job
  participant E as Edge: memory-extractor
  participant V as pgvector
  O->>PG: insert messages (inbound + outbound) [sync]
  O->>PG: upsert obvious facts (name, plan, prefs) [sync]
  Note right of O: orchestrator returns to user
  Q->>E: every 5 min: pick sessions with new turns
  E->>PG: read recent turns
  E->>E: cheap LLM extracts facts + chunks
  E->>PG: upsert memory_facts
  E->>V: insert memory_embeddings

Synchronous on the hot path: insert messages, upsert obvious fact updates. Asynchronous via a pg_cron-triggered Edge Function: LLM-driven extraction (Haiku/Flash), embedding generation, vector insert.

6.4 Memory extraction

  • Runs every ~5 minutes per active session, OR after N new turns.
  • Model: cheap (Gemini Flash / Haiku). Cost matters more than latency here.
  • Output schema (strict JSON): { facts: [{key, value, confidence}], chunks: [{kind, content}] }.
  • Chunks go to memory_embeddings; facts upsert into memory_facts with a confidence floor (e.g. 0.6).

6.5 Memory read path

sql
-- facts (cheap, exact)
select key, value
from memory_facts
where scope = 'user_binding'
  and scope_id = $1
  and confidence >= 0.6
order by updated_at desc
limit 30;

-- episodic recall (semantic top-k via HNSW)
set local hnsw.ef_search = 64;
select content, source_ref,
       1 - (embedding <=> $query_emb) as score
from memory_embeddings
where scope = 'user_binding' and scope_id = $1
order by embedding <=> $query_emb
limit 5;

Facts + top-k chunks merge into the AGENT-dynamic block (§4.5). Token cap per block is set in agents.memory_policy; over-budget chunks are dropped lowest-score first.

6.6 Cross-channel session continuity

Identity key: users.phone. WhatsApp inbound provides it natively; Web users link it via OTP at signup. Sessions are scoped to (user_id, binding_id) — the same WhatsApp ↔ Web user resolves to the same session row, so memory and history are continuous across channels.

6.7 Per-contact isolation

Each end user gets their own session row even if many users talk to the same binding (e.g. thousands of fans talking to kichcha.ai). Enforced by RLS on sessions and messages: read scope is user_id = current_user_id() for user-facing surfaces; the orchestrator runs with service_role and uses explicit where clauses.

6.8 Memory consolidation

  • Schedule: nightly pg_cron job per tenant.
  • Scope: sessions idle > 24h with > 20 turns.
  • Model: Sonnet for quality (this is the only place we spend on quality summarisation).
  • Output: long-term memory_facts (overwriting low-confidence entries) and a single summary chunk in memory_embeddings tagged kind = 'episodic'.
  • Retention: raw messages kept [TBD] (proposed: 90 days hot, then archived to Storage in JSONL).
Model A — Primary runtime · 7

7. Tools & actions (Model A)

Tool registry, execution path, secrets, LLM-vs-code split.

7.1 Tool registry by category

CategoryExamplesUsed by
Paymentscreate_payment_link, split_payout (Razorpay Route)commerce-payments AGENT
Searchsearch_catalog, search_kbcommerce, support, productivity
Schedulingschedule_job, cron_set, reminder_createproductivity, clinical
KYC / DPIdigilocker_pull, aa_consent_request, abdm_lookupvakil, medicly, fintech bindings
Brand / productfetch_sku, get_inventorycommerce
Notificationsnotify_owner, email_send, whatsapp_sendevery binding

7.2 Tool definition

JSON schema stored inside agents.tools. The AGENT tier owns the spec; the binding inherits it.

json
{
  "name": "create_payment_link",
  "description": "Create a Razorpay payment link for a specific SKU and quantity. Returns short URL.",
  "schema": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "sku":  { "type": "string" },
      "qty":  { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 50 },
      "note": { "type": "string", "maxLength": 140 }
    },
    "required": ["sku", "qty"]
  },
  "endpoint": "razorpay:payment_links.create",
  "auth": "vault:razorpay_secret_tenant_<tenant_id>"
}

7.3 Tool execution

  • Default path: dispatched in-process from the orchestrator. Same Edge invocation, awaited.
  • Heavy path: long-running tools (Razorpay payouts, DigiLocker pulls) are dispatched to tool-dispatcher Edge Function and the orchestrator returns "working on it" with a Supabase Realtime push when done.
  • Each call writes a row to tool_calls with latency_ms for observability.

7.4 Secrets

Supabase Vault stores per-tenant API tokens (Razorpay, Gupshup, Bhashini, brand APIs). Tools resolve secrets by a vault: URI in their auth field; the orchestrator never sees the raw value, only the provider client does.

7.5 In-house code vs LLM-handled logic

LogicOwnerWhy
Intent classification[HYBRID]Code-side regex for obvious keywords; LLM classifier when ambiguous
Language detection[CODE]Deterministic library (franc / cld3); too risky to leave to model
Payment splitting (Razorpay Route)[CODE]Financial; must be deterministic and auditable
Brand / product selection in ranveer.ai[HYBRID]LLM picks intent; code-side tool returns SKU candidates; LLM phrases the response
Conversation-quota counting[CODE]One delegated job = one conversation; background work is free. Counted at message-insert time via SQL.
Pricing-cooldown enforcement (3–4 turn)[HYBRID]Code-side counter exposed to the prompt as a fact; LLM honours it (and post-process scrubs price tokens if the LLM defies it)
No-discount guardrail[CODE]Regex on outbound for percent + currency patterns; block + rewrite
Income-segmentation guardrail[HYBRID]Prompt-level + classifier on outbound for income-coded phrases
"Built on ind.ai" deflection[HYBRID]Persona guardrail in prompt; code-side scrubber for model-name leaks
Fallback-plan mention after recommendation[LLM]Trained into SOPs; code-side check is too brittle
Model A — Primary runtime · 8

8. Agent catalog (Model A)

Every binding that exists or is on the roadmap.

8.1–8.12 Agent catalog

Sortable by status during planning. Status reflects steady-state Model A target unless noted.

#BindingHumanTeamAgentUsersChannelsModel(s)LangsToolsMemoryKey guardrailsStatus
8.1Sahayak Pro work-agentsahayakpro-workstandard-productivityPaying Pro usersWA + WebSonnet (default), Haiku (cheap)EN, HI, TAschedule_job, draft_doc, notify, search_kbuser×binding (deep)Quota counting, pricing cooldown, no-discount, fallback-plan mentionplanned
8.2Sahayak Business work-agentsahayak-businessbusiness-workstandard-productivityPaying Business usersWA + WebSonnetEN, HI, TAschedule_job, draft_doc, notify, search_kb, business_membersuser×binding + team-scopeRole-based access (owner/admin/staff)planned
8.3Sahayak Pro conciergesahayakpre-sales(Model B today)Anonymous visitorsWebGemini Flash (today)EN, HI, TAlead_capture, schedule_demosession-only (Model B)No-discount, no-income-segmentationlive on Model B; planned migrate
8.4Sahayak Business conciergesahayak-businesspre-sales(Model B today)Anonymous SMB visitorsWebGemini FlashEN, HI, TAlead_capture, schedule_demosession-onlySame as 8.3 + B2B normslive on Model B; planned migrate
8.5ranveer.ai commerceranveercommerce-conciergecommerce-paymentsFans / buyersWeb (mobile-first), WASonnet + Sarvam (multilingual)EN, HI (Hinglish)search_catalog, create_payment_link, fetch_sku, get_inventoryuser×binding (orders, prefs)No price w/o SKU, pricing cooldown, no-discountin-build
8.6kichcha.ai personakichchafan-engagementstandard-productivityFansWeb, WASarvam-30BEN, KNfetch_event, fan_signupuser×binding (light)Never pure Hindi; persona-lockin-build
8.7alluarjun.ai / bunny.aiallu-arjunfan-engagementstandard-productivityFansWeb, WASarvam-30BEN, TE (Hyderabadi flavour)fetch_event, fan_signupuser×binding (light)Cultural register, persona-lockin-build
8.8medicly.ai clinic B2Bmedicly-clinic-coachfertility-clinicclinical-b2bClinic staff (IVF/fertility IN/UAE/AU)WASonnetEN, AR, HIpatient_funnel, lead_score, schedule_visitteam-scope (clinic data), user×binding (per staff)PHI handling, no diagnosisplanned
8.9medicly.ai patient-sidemedicly-patient-coachfertility-patientclinical-patientPatients via fertility.ai/gynaec.ai/ivf.ai funnelsWeb, WASonnet (English) / Sarvam (regional)EN, HI, regionalintake_form, schedule_consultuser×bindingNo diagnosis, escalate any red flagplanned
8.10vakil.ai legal notice v1dr-vakilnotice-generatorlegal-doc-genConsumers needing demand noticesWebSonnet (long-form)EN, HIdoc_template, digilocker_pull, payment_linkuser×bindingNo legal advice; doc generation onlyin-build
8.11Internal marketing (Paperclip-style)varies per marketmarketing-medicly-IN/UAE/AUmarketing-researchInternal teamWebSonnetENsearch_web, brief_writer, audience_sizerteam-scopeInternal only; no public-facing toneplanned
8.12jananayagan.ai / vijay.aivijay / jananayagan-personapolitical-infra-tnpolitical-multilingualPublicWeb, WA, VoiceSarvam-30BTA, ENsupporter_signup, fact_check_lookupuser×bindingCompliance with ECI norms; no impersonationplanned
Model A — Primary runtime · 9

9. Latency budget (Model A)

Per-channel targets and per-stage breakdown.

9.1 End-to-end targets per channel

Channelp50p95
WhatsApp[TBM] (target: under 3s)[TBM] (target: under 8s)
Web (streamed)TTFT under 800ms target [TBM]TTFT under 2s target [TBM]
Voice (per turn)[TBM] (target: under 1.5s STT→first audio)[TBM]

9.2 Per-stage breakdown (typical 3-tier turn)

Stagep50p95Notes
Inbound webhook → Edge cold start[TBM][TBM]Cold path includes Deno bootstrap
Edge warm start[TBM][TBM]Reusing isolate
Message normalise + insert[TBM][TBM]1 Postgres insert
agent_bindings lookup[TBM][TBM]indexed unique on routing_key
Tier resolution (humans+teams+agents)[TBM][TBM]3 PK lookups, batched; warm cache ≈ 0ms
Session lookup[TBM][TBM]indexed
Memory recall (facts + pgvector top-k)[TBM][TBM]HNSW search; ef_search tunable
Profile fetch[TBM][TBM]users + recent messages
Prompt assembly~5 ms [TBM]~15 ms [TBM]pure JS; size-bound
LLM TTFT[TBM][TBM]Sonnet typically 300–800ms cold; cache hit lower
LLM total generation[TBM][TBM]depends on output tokens
Tool calls (when present)[TBM][TBM]varies wildly by tool
Response post-process (md → WA fmt)[TBM][TBM]regex + simple transforms
Outbound send (Gupshup)[TBM][TBM]India POP latency

9.3 Bottlenecks (suspected, ordered by likelihood)

  • Edge Function cold starts (Deno bootstrap) — worst on first request after idle.
  • LLM TTFT on Sonnet — most reliable, but the biggest absolute share of the budget.
  • Gupshup roundtrip — India POP usually fine; cross-region is not.
  • pgvector at scale — fine through millions, degrades if ef_search raised carelessly.
  • Multi-tier config fetch if not cached — three PK lookups, but bursty.
  • Memory-extraction running synchronously by accident — must remain async.

9.4 Caching layers

  • Anthropic prompt cache — pinned at the AGENT-static boundary (§4.8). Cuts input tokens dramatically on cache hits.
  • Edge in-memory tier cache — by (tier, id, version); survives for the isolate's lifetime.
  • Embedding cache — for query embeddings of frequently-asked phrases (Top-N normalised intents).
  • Tool-result cache — only for idempotent reads (catalog lookups, KB searches). Keyed on canonical args; short TTL (60s).
Model A — Primary runtime · 10

10. Observability (Model A)

What we log, how we attribute cost, what the admin sees.

10.1 Per-turn logging

  • llm_calls — one row per provider call (including tool-loop iterations). Includes tokens_in, tokens_out, cache_hit_tokens, latency_ms, ttft_ms, per-tier token attribution under metadata.
  • tool_calls — one row per tool invocation: tool_name, args, result (truncated), latency_ms, error.
  • guardrail_violations — one row per triggered rule; severity: block / rewrite / log.

10.2 Token usage with per-tier breakdown

llm_calls.metadata stores the per-block token attribution computed by the assembler:

json
{
  "tier_tokens": {
    "human":         960,
    "team":         1180,
    "agent_static": 1420,
    "agent_dynamic": 3650,
    "heartbeat":      55,
    "user_message":   34
  },
  "cache_boundary_after": "agent_static",
  "stage_ms": {
    "tier_resolve": 4,
    "memory_recall": 38,
    "prompt_assemble": 6,
    "llm_ttft": 712,
    "llm_total": 1820
  }
}

10.3 Cost attribution rollups

A materialised view mv_cost_daily rolls llm_calls by (tenant_id, binding_id, day) with input cost, output cost, cache savings, and per-tier contribution. Refreshed by pg_cron every 15 minutes.

sql
create materialized view mv_cost_daily as
select
  ab.tenant_id,
  l.binding_id,
  date_trunc('day', l.created_at) as day,
  sum(l.tokens_in)  as tokens_in,
  sum(l.tokens_out) as tokens_out,
  sum(l.cache_hit_tokens) as tokens_cached,
  sum(l.cost_usd) as cost_usd
from llm_calls l
join agent_bindings ab on ab.id = l.binding_id
group by 1,2,3;

10.4 Tracing

10.5 Admin dashboard surfaces (Lovable-built)

  • Live conversations — Realtime channel subscribing to messages; filters by binding.
  • Token spend — per-tenant / per-binding cards from mv_cost_daily; sparkline + per-tier stack.
  • p95 latency — rolling window over llm_calls.latency_ms; per-binding and per-channel.
  • Guardrail violation feed — live tail of guardrail_violations; clickable into the offending turn.
  • Per-tier prompt size — distribution chart from metadata.tier_tokens; flags bindings whose AGENT-dynamic bloats above policy ceiling.

Status: scaffolding via this admin shell planned

Model A — Primary runtime · 11

11. Security & compliance (Model A)

RLS, PII handling, DPI auth, audit, data residency.

11.1 Supabase RLS — per-tenant isolation

  • Every tier and operational table carries tenant_id.
  • Policies route through a security definer function (public.current_tenant_id()) to avoid recursion.
  • Service-role bypass is used only inside Edge Functions, never exposed to clients.
  • End-user surfaces (web widgets) read with anon key and policies that limit to the active session.

11.2 PII handling

  • Phone — identity key; stored hashed in audit-only tables, raw only in users.phone behind RLS.
  • Aadhaarnever raw. Only DigiLocker-issued artefacts referenced by URI; raw numbers are rejected at validation.
  • Medical (medicly) — PHI tagged at column level; team-scope only; no LLM training; redaction filter on outbound logs.
  • Legal (vakil) — case content scoped to the user × binding; documents stored encrypted in Supabase Storage with signed-URL access.

11.3 DPI auth

  • DigiLocker OAuth — token stored in Vault, scoped per user; refresh handled by a dedicated Edge Function.
  • Account Aggregator consent — explicit per-purpose; consent artefact id stored on the relevant operation row.
  • ABDM — health ID lookups only with patient-side consent; never persisted beyond the operational record.

11.4 Audit logging

The existing audit_log table is reused for admin/operator actions. Runtime calls log to llm_calls / tool_calls / guardrail_violations. Any cross-tenant operation (e.g. handing off a user from one binding to another) generates an audit_log row.

11.5 Data residency

Supabase project pinned to India region. Provider calls outbound: Anthropic and Google are non-India; PII is scrubbed from prompts where feasible, and prompt content is treated as data-in-transit only (not retained by us beyond messages).

Status across the section: schema and patterns are designed; implementation tracking under in-build.

Model B — Current concierge · 12

12. Purpose & scope of Model B

What it is, what it powers, why it exists, when it goes away.

12.1 What Model B is

A flat-file agent definition borrowed from the OpenClaw setup: seven markdown files concatenated into one large system prompt on every turn. No tier separation; no Postgres-resolved personality model; minimal memory.

12.2 What it currently powers

  • Sahayak Pro concierge — the pre-sales chat on /sahayak/pro. live
  • Sahayak Business concierge — the pre-sales chat on /sahayak/business. live

Nothing else. Specifically: it does not power post-signup work agents, celebrity personas, or any production B2B agent.

12.3 Why it exists

Speed to market. We needed a working concierge on the landing pages before Model A was built. The 7-file format was the fastest path to a coherent Sahayak voice with a small tool surface, because it reused the OpenClaw workspace pattern the team already understood.

12.4 Migration plan

Order of cutover: work-agents on Model A first, then concierge last. The concierge is the riskiest cutover because its prompt has been hand-tuned against real visitor traffic; we keep Model B running until parity is validated (§16.3).

Model B — Current concierge · 13

13. The 7 files (Model B)

What each file is, what it owns, what it actually looks like.

agents.md

Purpose: Declares which agent is active, its scope, and which other files apply.

Loaded: On every turn — first in the concatenation order.

Changes: Rarely (only when a new agent variant is introduced).

Approx size: ~250 tokens.

markdown
# Agent: Sahayak Concierge (Pro)
Scope: pre-sales on /sahayak/pro
Active files: soul.md, tools.md, memory.md, identity.md, user.md, heartbeat.md
Channel: web only

soul.md

Purpose: Identity + voice + behavioural rules. Effectively HUMAN + TEAM glued together in one file.

Loaded: Every turn. The largest file.

Changes: Edited frequently during tuning; the highest-churn file.

Approx size: ~2,500–4,000 tokens (the biggest single context block).

markdown
# Sahayak — concierge persona
Tone: warm, precise, never patronising. British English conventions.
Languages: EN (default), HI, TA. Mirror the user's language.

# Rules
- Never offer discounts.
- Never reveal model name.
- After a recommendation, mention the fallback plan.
- Wait 3-4 turns between price mentions (pricing cooldown).
- Never segment users by income.

# Voice samples
[…hand-tuned exemplars…]

tools.md

Purpose: Tool schemas and usage rules in markdown form. Hand-translated into function-calling JSON at load time.

Loaded: Every turn.

Changes: When tools are added or schemas change.

Approx size: ~500–900 tokens.

markdown
# Tools
## lead_capture(name, email, occupation)
Use when the visitor agrees to share contact details for a follow-up.

## schedule_demo(slot_iso, channel)
Use when the visitor wants to see a demo.

memory.md

Purpose: What to remember and how. In practice this is a static policy file; persistence is minimal.

Loaded: Every turn.

Changes: Rarely.

Approx size: ~300 tokens.

markdown
# Memory policy
- Remember within this session only.
- If the user gives a name, store it for the session.
- Do not persist across sessions.

identity.md

Purpose: The agent's self-introduction script and the boundaries of self-disclosure.

Loaded: Every turn.

Changes: Almost never.

Approx size: ~200 tokens.

markdown
# Identity
You are Sahayak — the concierge for ind.ai's Pro and Business plans.
If asked what you are, say: "I'm the Sahayak concierge — built to help
you figure out the right ind.ai plan."
Do not name the underlying model.

user.md

Purpose: Runtime-substituted with the current visitor's session context (name if known, page they came from, locale).

Loaded: Every turn — values templated in.

Changes: Per turn (templated).

Approx size: ~120 tokens.

markdown
# Visitor
Name: {{name|"unknown"}}
Page: {{page_path}}
Locale: {{locale}}
Turns so far: {{turn_count}}

heartbeat.md

Purpose: Runtime context: time, channel, system status hints. Substituted per turn.

Loaded: Every turn — values templated in.

Changes: Per turn (templated).

Approx size: ~80 tokens.

markdown
# Heartbeat
Time (IST): {{now_ist}}
Channel: web
System status: nominal

Loading order

Concatenated in this order, separated by horizontal rules: agents.mdidentity.mdsoul.mdtools.mdmemory.mduser.mdheartbeat.md → user message. The whole concatenation is sent as the system prompt; no caching boundary is applied today (a future improvement).

Model B — Current concierge · 14

14. Sahayak concierge flow on Model B

End-to-end for the current production concierge.

14.1 Request lifecycle

sequenceDiagram
  participant V as Visitor (web)
  participant FE as Lovable frontend
  participant E as Edge: sahayak-web-reply
  participant PG as Postgres (sahayak_workspace_files)
  participant L as LLM (Gemini Flash / Sonnet)
  V->>FE: types message
  FE->>E: POST /sahayak-web-reply { session_id, message }
  E->>PG: select * from sahayak_workspace_files order by sort_order
  E->>E: concatenate 7 files + render templates
  E->>L: chat completion (system = concat, user = message)
  L-->>E: response (maybe tool_call)
  alt tool_call
    E->>E: dispatch lead_capture / schedule_demo
  end
  E->>PG: insert message rows
  E->>FE: stream / return response
  FE->>V: render

14.2 Prompt assembly on Model B

Annotated skeleton; per-block tokens are [TBM] but approximate:

  • agents.md: 250
  • identity.md: 200
  • soul.md (the big one): 3,200
  • tools.md: 700
  • memory.md: 300
  • user.md (templated): 120
  • heartbeat.md (templated): 80
  • session history (last N): 1,500
Total: 6,350 tokens

14.3 Memory on Model B

  • Within session: session history is appended on every turn, capped at last N (~10).
  • Across sessions: nothing persists. If the visitor returns the next day with the same browser, the concierge does not remember them.
  • Facts: name / email captured via lead_capture tool are written to platform_feedback, but the concierge does not re-read them on the next visit.

14.4 Tool calls on Model B

Tools are described in tools.md in human-readable markdown. At load time the orchestrator parses this into a function-calling schema. There are only two tools today: lead_capture and schedule_demo. Both are deterministic Postgres inserts.

14.5 Worked example — full concierge turn

text
Inbound (web):
"hi — I run a small studio with 4 designers; would Pro or Business fit better?"

1. Edge fn pulls all 7 files (single SQL query, ordered).
2. Templates user.md and heartbeat.md.
3. Concatenates → system prompt (~6,400 tokens).
4. Appends last 0 turns (new session) + user message.
5. Sends to Gemini Flash with tool schemas.
6. LLM responds:
   "For 4 designers, Business gives you shared knowledge across the team
    and admin controls — that's usually the better fit for small studios.
    Want me to set up a 15-minute walkthrough?"
7. No tool call this turn. Insert outbound message.
8. Return to frontend.

Round-trip: TTFB observed in production ~700–1400 ms (Gemini Flash).
Input tokens this turn: ~6,420. Output: ~78.
Model B — Current concierge · 15

15. Known limitations of Model B

Why this stops at the concierge.

15.1 No tier separation

Persona, role, and runtime concerns are entangled in soul.md. Changing voice risks breaking SOPs; changing SOPs risks drifting voice. A/B testing one concern requires forking the whole file.

15.2 No cross-session memory consolidation

Returning visitors are strangers. No facts persist; no embeddings; no episodic recall. Acceptable for a concierge whose job is closing one conversation, unacceptable for any agent whose value compounds with familiarity.

15.3 No multi-agent orchestration within a vertical

There is no handoff to a peer agent on Model B. The concierge cannot route a deep technical question to a specialist binding because no such binding exists in the model.

15.4 Hard to version, hard to A/B test

File edits overwrite. There is no version history beyond the database row's updated_at. Running two prompt variants against split traffic requires forking the table or wrapping the loader in feature flags — both ad-hoc.

15.5 Context-window cost

Full concatenation on every turn, no cache boundary, no selective loading. On Gemini Flash this is tolerable; on Sonnet it would be a non-starter at scale. (See §14.2 for the token map.)

15.6 Why these limitations cap Model B at the concierge

Model B — Current concierge · 16

16. Migration path from Model B to Model A

File-by-file mapping, cutover order, parity validation.

16.1 Mapping table

Model B fileModel A destinationNotes
agents.mdagent_bindings row (slug, channels)The "which agent is active" header collapses into the binding identity.
identity.mdhumans row → display_name, voice.identitySelf-introduction script becomes part of the HUMAN identity block.
soul.md (voice portion)humans.voice, humans.languages, humans.guardrailsTone, language, persona no-go zones.
soul.md (SOP portion)teams.sops, teams.guardrailsPricing cooldown, no-discount, fallback-plan mention.
tools.mdagents.tools (JSON schema)Markdown descriptions get translated to formal function-calling schemas.
memory.mdagents.memory_policyStatic policy becomes a structured JSON config.
user.mdRuntime AGENT-dynamic block from users + memory_factsTemplated values now come from real persistent rows.
heartbeat.mdRuntime AGENT-dynamic heartbeat (computed)Unchanged in spirit; just inline in the assembler.

16.2 Migration sequence

flowchart LR
  A[Model A schema deployed] --> B[Work-agents built on Model A]
  B --> C[Validate work-agents in pilot]
  C --> D[Concierge ported to Model A behind feature flag]
  D --> E[Shadow traffic: A vs B side-by-side]
  E --> F[Parity verified - §16.3]
  F --> G[Cut concierge to Model A 100%]
  G --> H[Retire Model B - delete 7-file loader]

16.3 Parity validation

Run both runtimes against a held-out replay set of real concierge transcripts (anonymised, with consent). For each turn we compare:

  • Tool-call decisions — exact match required.
  • Outbound message — semantic similarity score (cheap LLM judge) above threshold; manual review of any below.
  • Latency budget — Model A p95 within 1.25× Model B p95 at minimum.
  • Token spend per turn — Model A should be lower after prompt-cache hits warm up.

Only when all four meet thresholds across the replay set do we flip traffic 100%. After flip, Model B's loader and tables are dropped in a follow-up migration.

Cross-cutting · 17

17. Side-by-side comparison

Model A vs Model B across every dimension that matters.

Comparison

DimensionModel A — 3-tier personality runtimeModel B — 7-file workspace runtime
Personality structureHUMAN / TEAM / AGENT — separate Postgres rows, versioned independently7 flat .md files concatenated; no separation
Prompt assemblyLayered, with caching boundary at AGENT-staticFull concat every turn; no cache boundary
Memory — sessionmessages table, scoped per (user × binding)Last N turns held in session row only
Memory — factsmemory_facts, scoped HUMAN / TEAM / user×bindingNone persisted
Memory — semanticmemory_embeddings (pgvector HNSW)None
Memory consolidationNightly Sonnet summarisation into long-term factsNone
Tool registryJSON schemas on AGENT row; per-tenant Vault authMarkdown descriptions parsed at load time
Multi-tenancytenant_id everywhere; RLS with security-definerSingle-tenant (Sahayak only)
Versioningtier_config_versions per HUMAN / TEAM / AGENT rowupdated_at only
A/B testingBind different AGENT rows to traffic slices via routing_keyFork files, manage manually
Observabilityllm_calls + tool_calls + guardrail_violations + per-tier token attributionBasic message logs
ChannelsWhatsApp, Web, Voice via envelope abstractionWeb only (in current concierge use)
StreamingWeb yes (Realtime/SSE), Voice yes (sentence chunks), WA noYes on web (Gemini stream)
Model routingPer-AGENT routing config (Sonnet / Haiku / Sarvam / LoRA)Single model per concierge instance
Guardrail layeringHUMAN + TEAM + AGENT, with precedence ruleAll in soul.md, flat
Scalability ceilingDesigned for fleet (12+ bindings)One persona; adding a second forks the workspace

The honest summary: Model B got us to a live concierge fast. Model A is the architecture every other agent needs. The migration path (§16) is the only thing standing between us and a uniform runtime.

Cross-cutting · 18

18. Open questions & decisions pending

The honest list. No pretending these are solved.

Model A — open

  • Tier precedence edge cases — when HUMAN says "always warm" and TEAM says "be terse during escalation", which wins per-turn? Proposed rule in §4.7, untested at scale.
  • Agent inheritance — should the AGENT tier support a base + extension pattern (one "standard productivity" extended by "with payment tools")? Saves duplication; adds complexity to versioning.
  • Edge vs long-lived Node — for the agent loop. Edge is operationally simpler; Node service handles long tool calls and avoids cold starts. Currently we plan Edge with a separate long-running tool dispatcher.
  • Realtime push vs poll for tier config sync — Realtime is zero-latency but tightly coupled to Supabase Realtime uptime; short-TTL cache is robust but stale by N seconds.
  • Vector DB choice — pgvector is sufficient through millions of rows; do we ever migrate to a dedicated vector DB (Turbopuffer, Pinecone, Qdrant)? Trigger: if HNSW degrades p95 above latency budget.
  • Async memory extraction dispatch — pg_cron polling vs pg_net row trigger vs Supabase queue. (See §6.3.)
  • Voice AGENT row — dedicated AGENT for voice or channel-conditional post-processor on a shared AGENT. (See §2.5.)
  • Classifier provider — same-provider (cache-friendly) vs always-cheapest. (See §5.3.)
  • Indian region proxy for Anthropic — residency vs latency. (See §11.5.)

Model B — open

  • Do we add a prompt-cache boundary inside the 7-file concat to reduce per-turn cost before migration? Cheap win; risk of complicating the soon-to-be-retired code path.
  • Do we begin shadow-logging tier-style attribution (HUMAN-ish vs TEAM-ish blocks) inside Model B so the parity test in §16.3 has a baseline? Modest engineering cost; large payoff at cutover.

Cross-cutting — open

  • Suspected context-bloat sources (to verify with §10 telemetry):
    • AGENT-dynamic block on long-tail sessions where session history isn't being summarised on time.
    • Tool specs growing unchecked — verbose JSON schemas with no doc-string discipline.
    • Memory recall returning low-score chunks that don't help the model but cost tokens.
  • Suspected latency sources not yet measured:
    • Edge cold starts during off-peak hours.
    • pgvector p95 when HNSW ef_search is raised without considering distribution.
    • Gupshup roundtrip variance for non-India numbers.
    • The tool-call loop's hidden cost: each iteration is an additional LLM round-trip with full input replay (mitigated by cache, but not eliminated).