03 - How We Overcame Each Failure

graph LR
    subgraph "Fix Priority Matrix"
        direction TB
        P1["P0 - Day 1<br>Fix 3: Hallucinated Prices<br>(Legal exposure)"]
        P2["P0 - Day 1<br>Fix 6: Prompt Injection<br>(Security breach)"]
        P3["P1 - Day 2<br>Fix 1: Cold-Start Cascade<br>(Root of errors)"]
        P4["P1 - Day 2<br>Fix 4: WebSocket Meltdown<br>(Root of disconnects)"]
        P5["P2 - Day 3<br>Fix 2: RAG Recall Collapse<br>(Quality)"]
        P6["P2 - Day 3<br>Fix 5: Context Window Overflow<br>(Quality)"]
        P7["P3 - Day 4<br>Fix 7: Cost Explosion<br>(Budget)"]
    end

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graph TD
    subgraph "Fix Layer 1: Strict Prompt Contract"
        L1A["Changed prompt from:<br>'Never invent prices, use provided prices'"]
        L1B["Changed to:<br>'ONLY use prices from the PRODUCT DATA JSON block.<br>If PRODUCT DATA is missing or the price field is empty,<br>respond: I cannot confirm the current price.<br>You can check the live price here: [product_url]<br>Do NOT use prices from any other source.'"]
        L1A --> L1B
    end

    subgraph "Fix Layer 2: RAG Chunk Price Stripping"
        L2A["Price patterns in RAG chunks<br>e.g. '$4.99', '¥550', 'starting at $...'<br>→ STRIPPED before injection into prompt"]
        L2B["Product descriptions now enter<br>the prompt price-free<br>LLM cannot cite stale prices<br>because they are not there"]
        L2A --> L2B
    end

    subgraph "Fix Layer 3: Price Guardrail Hardening"
        L3A["Price check now mandatory<br>EVEN when catalog data is null"]
        L3B["When catalog is null:<br>any price in response → BLOCKED<br>Response replaced with<br>'please check current price' message"]
        L3A --> L3B
    end

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sequenceDiagram
    participant Orch as Orchestrator
    participant Catalog as Product Catalog
    participant LLM as Claude 3.5
    participant Guard as Guardrails

    Note over Orch: Catalog timeout scenario (FIXED)
    Orch->>Catalog: Get product B08X1YRSTR
    Catalog--xOrch: TIMEOUT after 1.5s

    Note over Orch: ✅ NEW: Mark product_data as UNAVAILABLE<br>Do NOT inject RAG as fallback for price
    Orch->>LLM: Prompt with PRODUCT DATA: UNAVAILABLE<br>RAG chunks: price-stripped
    LLM-->>Orch: "I can't confirm the current price right now.<br>Check the live price at: amazon.com/dp/B08X1YRSTR"
    Orch->>Guard: Validate response
    Note over Guard: ✅ Price check: no price in response
    Note over Guard: ✅ Product link check: valid ASIN
    Guard-->>Orch: PASS
    Orch-->>LLM: Safe response delivered

graph TD
    subgraph "Step 1: Prompt Isolation with XML + Canary Token"
        S1["System prompt wrapped:<br><system_instructions>[canary_token_7a9f2]<br>...actual system prompt...<br></system_instructions>"]
        S1NOTE["Canary token = random UUID per deployment<br>Output scanner checks: does response contain<br>the canary token? If yes = SYSTEMPROMPT LEAKED → BLOCK"]
    end

    subgraph "Step 2: User Input Sandboxing"
        S2["User message wrapped:<br><user_input>actual user message</user_input><br>LLM instructed: content inside user_input<br>is DATA not INSTRUCTIONS"]
    end

    subgraph "Step 3: Encoding Detection Layer"
        S3["Pre-processing pipeline:<br>1. Detect Base64 → decode → re-scan<br>2. Detect URL encoding → decode → re-scan<br>3. Detect Unicode homoglyphs → normalize<br>4. Detect reverse text → re-scan<br>5. Detect zero-width char hidden text → strip"]
    end

    subgraph "Step 4: RAG Chunk Sanitizer"
        S4["Before injection, each RAG chunk:\n<br>- Strip sentences matching instruction patterns<br>  e.g. 'ignore', 'disregard', 'you are now',<br>  'your new instructions'<br>- Strip anything that looks like a prompt<br>- Flag chunk for human review if stripped"]
    end

    subgraph "Step 5: Fine-Tuned Injection Classifier"
        S5["Deployed DistilBERT fine-tuned on<br>3,000 labeled injection examples<br>Runs on input BEFORE it goes to LLM<br>Confidence threshold: 0.70<br>Blocked inputs logged and reviewed"]
    end

    S1 --> S2 --> S3 --> S4 --> S5

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graph LR
    subgraph "BEFORE"
        B1[User Input] --> B2{Regex check}
        B2 -->|pass| B3[LLM]
        B3 --> B4{Regex check}
        B4 --> B5[User]
    end

    subgraph "AFTER"
        A1[User Input] --> A2[Encoding normalizer]
        A2 --> A3[Injection classifier<br>DistilBERT]
        A3 -->|clean| A4[RAG retrieval]
        A4 --> A5[RAG chunk sanitizer<br>strip instruction-like text]
        A5 --> A6[Prompt builder<br>XML delimiters + canary]
        A6 --> A7[LLM]
        A7 --> A8[Canary leak check]
        A8 --> A9[PII scanner NER]
        A9 --> A10[Price validator catalog]
        A10 --> A11[ASIN validator]
        A11 --> A12[Competitor filter<br>fuzzy + semantic]
        A12 --> A13[Scope classifier]
        A13 -->|all pass| A14[User]
        A13 -->|fail| A15[Fallback + Log + Alert]
    end

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graph TD
    subgraph "Architecture Change"
        direction LR

        subgraph "BEFORE: Lambda Primary"
            B1[API GW] --> B2["Lambda<br>(cold start on every<br>new concurrent request)"]
            B2 --> B3[Re-initialize<br>SDK clients per invocation]
        end

        subgraph "AFTER: ECS Fargate Primary + Lambda Overflow"
            A1[ALB] --> A2["ECS Fargate<br>Orchestrator Service<br>Persistent SDK connections<br>Pre-warmed pool"]
            A2 -->|overflow only| A3["Lambda<br>Provisioned concurrency: 100<br>Pre-warmed, no cold starts"]
            A2 --> A4["Persistent connection pool:<br>- Bedrock: 100 keepalive connections<br>- OpenSearch: 50 connections<br>- DynamoDB: 200 connections"]
        end
    end

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classDiagram
    class OrchestratorService {
        -bedrockPool: ConnectionPool
        -openSearchPool: ConnectionPool
        -dynamoDBPool: ConnectionPool
        +handleRequest(req: ChatRequest)~Response~
    }
    class ConnectionPool {
        -connections: List~Connection~
        -maxSize: int
        -minIdle: int
        -idleTimeout: Duration
        +acquire()~Connection~
        +release(conn: Connection)
        +healthCheck()
    }
    class BedrockPool {
        maxSize: 100
        minIdle: 20
        idleTimeout: 60s
    }
    class OpenSearchPool {
        maxSize: 50
        minIdle: 10
        idleTimeout: 60s
    }
    class DynamoDBPool {
        maxSize: 200
        minIdle: 40
        idleTimeout: 120s
    }

    OrchestratorService --> BedrockPool
    OrchestratorService --> OpenSearchPool
    OrchestratorService --> DynamoDBPool
    BedrockPool --|> ConnectionPool
    OpenSearchPool --|> ConnectionPool
    DynamoDBPool --|> ConnectionPool

graph LR
    subgraph "BEFORE: Reactive Scaling"
        B1[Traffic spike] --> B2[CPU > 80%<br>alarm fires after 2 min]
        B2 --> B3[ECS scale-up triggered]
        B3 --> B4[New tasks ready in ~7 min]
        B4 --> B5[Old tasks die in 5 min gap]
    end

    subgraph "AFTER: Predictive + Reactive"
        A1[Manga event detected<br>in product catalog e.g.<br>major volume release<br>marketing campaign] --> A2[Pre-scale triggered<br>ahead of event]
        A2 --> A3[Minimum capacity: 30 tasks<br>vs. old minimum: 10]
        A3 --> A4[Step scaling:<br>CPU > 50% → add 20 tasks<br>CPU > 70% → add 40 tasks<br>Faster than threshold-based]
        A4 --> A5[Target tracking:<br>CPU target: 40%<br>giving 60% headroom]
    end

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graph TD
    subgraph "BEFORE: Unlimited connections per task"
        B1[Task 1<br>Accepts: unlimited<br>Result: OOM kill at 8,500]
    end

    subgraph "AFTER: Hard limit per task + connection draining"
        A1[Task 1<br>MAX: 2,000 connections<br>At 1,800 → stops accepting new ones]
        A1 --> A2[ALB marks task as<br>connection-full via custom<br>health check endpoint:<br>GET /health/capacity]
        A2 --> A3[ALB routes new WebSocket<br>upgrades to less-loaded tasks<br>or triggers new task launch]
        A3 --> A4[Graceful draining:<br>when task is connection-full,<br>old idle connections get a<br>'reconnect' message directing<br>them to new server]
    end

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sequenceDiagram
    participant CM as Capacity Monitor
    participant ECS as ECS Service
    participant ASG as Auto Scaling
    participant Tasks as New Tasks
    participant ALB

    Note over CM: Tracks connections per task continuously
    CM->>ECS: connections_per_task > 1500 avg
    ECS->>ASG: Scale-out NOW (pre-emptive signal)

    Note over ASG: NEW: Container image pre-cached on all nodes
    Note over ASG: NEW: Min capacity = 30 tasks (was 10)
    ASG->>Tasks: Launch 20 new tasks
    Note over Tasks: Image pull: ~8s (pre-cached)<br>Start: ~15s<br>Health check: 20s (was 30s)
    Tasks-->>ALB: Register (41 seconds total, was 7 min)
    ALB->>Tasks: Traffic flows to new tasks
    Note over ALB: Reconnect-storm prevented:<br>tasks draining connections<br>gradually rather than dying

graph TD
    subgraph "BEFORE: Thundering Herd on Reconnect"
        B1[8,500 tasks die simultaneously]
        B2[8,500 clients reconnect<br>within 100ms]
        B3[Thundering herd overloads<br>surviving tasks]
        B1 --> B2 --> B3
    end

    subgraph "AFTER: Jittered Reconnect Protocol"
        A1[Task sends RECONNECT_SOON<br>message to client before draining]
        A2[Client receives RECONNECT_SOON<br>with reconnect_after_ms field]
        A3["reconnect_after_ms = random(1000, 30000)<br>per client (30-second window)"]
        A4[Clients reconnect spread<br>over 30 seconds<br>~283 reconnects/sec avg<br>vs. 8,500/sec spike]
        A1 --> A2 --> A3 --> A4
    end

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graph TD
    subgraph "BEFORE: Single Pipeline, Single Index"
        B1[All sources] --> B2[Basic chunker]
        B2 --> B3[Titan Embeddings]
        B3 --> B4[Single OpenSearch Index<br>2.8M chunks, mixed types]
    end

    subgraph "AFTER: Per-Source Pipeline, Per-Type Indices"
        subgraph "Ingestion Pipeline per Source Type"
            A1[Raw content] --> A2[Format normalizer<br>strip HTML, normalize MD<br>validate UTF-8, fix encoding]
            A2 --> A3[Deduplication<br>MinHash LSH<br>Jaccard threshold: 0.85]
            A3 --> A4[Instruction-pattern sanitizer<br>remove injection-like sentences]
            A4 --> A5[Source-type chunker<br>size varies by type]
            A5 --> A6[Titan Embeddings V2]
            A6 --> A7[Metadata enrichment<br>source_type, asin, freshness]
        end

        subgraph "Dedicated Indices"
            A7 -->|source_type=faq| I1[FAQ + Policy Index<br>~180K chunks]
            A7 -->|source_type=product| I2[Product Description Index<br>~1.2M chunks deduplicated]
            A7 -->|source_type=editorial| I3[Editorial Index<br>~95K chunks]
            A7 -->|source_type=review| I4[Review Summary Index<br>~890K chunks]
        end
    end

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graph TD
    Q[User Query + Intent] --> R{Route by intent}

    R -->|intent=faq, policy| Q1["Query FAQ + Policy Index ONLY<br>KNN top 10 → rerank to 3"]
    R -->|intent=product_question| Q2["Query Product Description Index<br>filtered by ASIN if available<br>KNN top 10 → rerank to 3"]
    R -->|intent=recommendation| Q3["Query Editorial + Product Index<br>KNN top 10 filtered by genre<br>rerank to 3"]
    R -->|intent=review| Q4["Query Review Index<br>filtered by ASIN<br>KNN top 5 → rerank to 2"]
    R -->|intent=general| Q5["Fan out to all 4 indices<br>merge results<br>global rerank to 3"]

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sequenceDiagram
    participant Raw as Raw Chunk
    participant Hash as MinHash Generator
    participant LSH as LSH Bucket Store
    participant Filter as Duplicate Filter
    participant Index as OpenSearch

    Raw->>Hash: Compute MinHash signature (128 hashes)
    Hash->>LSH: Query nearest neighbors
    LSH-->>Hash: Candidate duplicates list
    Hash->>Filter: Compare Jaccard similarity
    Note over Filter: Jaccard > 0.85 = DUPLICATE

    alt Duplicate detected
        Filter-->>Raw: SKIP: duplicate of chunk_id=xyz
        Note over Filter: Keep older chunk if newer has<br>lower quality score.<br>Keep newer if content was updated.
    else No duplicate
        Filter->>Index: Index new chunk
    end

graph LR
    subgraph "Cross-Encoder Reranker Fine-Tuning"
        T1["Base model:<br>ms-marco-MiniLM-L-6-v2"]
        T2["Training data constructed:<br>- 3,000 query-chunk pairs from<br>actual MangaAssist logs<br>- Labeled: relevant / irrelevant<br>by 3 human annotators<br>- Cohen's kappa: 0.84"]
        T3["Fine-tuned model:<br>manga-reranker-v1<br>Domain: JP manga, Amazon products"]
        T4["Eval on held-out 500 pairs:<br>MRR@3: 0.71 (was 0.42 generic)"]
        T1 --> T2 --> T3 --> T4
    end

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classDiagram
    class PromptBudget {
        +SYSTEM: int = 800
        +CONTEXT_BLOCK: int = 400
        +RAG_CHUNKS: int = 1500
        +PRODUCT_DATA: int = 1200
        +HISTORY: int = 2000
        +USER_MESSAGE: int = 200
        +SAFETY_BUFFER: int = 300
        +TOTAL_MAX: int = 6400

        +measure(section: str, content: str): int
        +enforce(section: str, content: str): str
        +summarize_if_needed(history: list): str
    }

    class HistoryManager {
        -turns: List~Turn~
        -maxTokens: int = 2000
        -summaryModel: str = "claude-haiku-4-5"
        +getBudgetedHistory(): str
        -countTokens(turns: List): int
        -summarizeOldestWindow(turns: List): str
        -selectTurns(budget: int): List~Turn~
    }

    class ContextBuilder {
        -budget: PromptBudget
        -historyManager: HistoryManager
        +build(intent, rag, products, history, message): Prompt
        +validateFits(prompt: str): bool
    }

    ContextBuilder --> PromptBudget
    ContextBuilder --> HistoryManager

graph TD
    A[Conversation with N turns] --> B{Count tokens<br>for last N turns}
    B -->|tokens <= 2000| C[Use full history<br>✅ Within budget]
    B -->|tokens > 2000| D[Divide into windows<br>Window size: 8 turns]
    D --> E[Oldest unsummarized window]
    E --> F[Call Claude Haiku to summarize<br>Prompt: 'Summarize this conversation<br>window in 2-3 sentences. Preserve:<br>what the user was looking for,<br>what was recommended,<br>any unresolved issues.']
    F --> G[Replace 8 turns with ~80 token summary]
    G --> H{Still over budget?}
    H -->|yes| E
    H -->|no| I[Concatenate: summaries + recent turns<br>Total: <= 2000 tokens<br>✅ Within budget]

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graph TD
    subgraph "BEFORE: Suboptimal Order"
        B1["System (HIGH attention) ✅"]
        B2["Context (good)"]
        B3["History (MIDDLE — low attention) ❌"]
        B4["RAG chunks (MIDDLE — low attention) ❌"]
        B5["Product data (MIDDLE — low attention) ❌"]
        B6["User message (HIGH attention) ✅"]
    end

    subgraph "AFTER: Attention-Optimized Order"
        A1["System (HIGH attention) ✅"]
        A2["RAG chunks (near beginning) ✅"]
        A3["Product data (near beginning) ✅"]
        A4["Condensed context block ✅"]
        A5["Recent history (near end) ✅"]
        A6["User message (end — HIGH attention) ✅"]
    end

    subgraph "Why This Matters"
        NOTE["Lost-in-the-middle effect:<br>LLMs pay most attention to<br>content at the START and END<br>of the context window.<br><br>Critical grounding data (RAG, products)<br>must NOT be buried in the middle<br>under a long conversation history."]
    end

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graph TD
    A[User Message] --> B[Rule-Based Fast Path<br>Regex patterns, high confidence]

    B -->|greeting chitchat confidence > 0.90| C1["Template Engine<br>Cost: $0.00<br>Latency: <10ms"]
    B -->|order_tracking confidence > 0.90| C2["Order Service API<br>+ Template<br>Cost: $0.001<br>Latency: <200ms"]
    B -->|simple product lookup| C3["Catalog API<br>+ Light format<br>Cost: $0.001<br>Latency: <150ms"]

    B -->|confidence < 0.90| D[Fine-Tuned DistilBERT<br>Intent Classifier<br>SageMaker Endpoint<br>Latency: ~45ms]

    D -->|FAQ policy confidence > 0.80| E1["RAG + Claude Haiku<br>Cost: $0.004<br>Latency: <1.2s"]
    D -->|recommendation confidence > 0.80| E2["Reco Engine + Claude Haiku<br>Cost: $0.004<br>Latency: <1.0s"]
    D -->|product question| E3["Catalog + Claude Haiku<br>Cost: $0.003<br>Latency: <0.8s"]
    D -->|complex ambiguous low confidence| E4["Full Context + Claude Sonnet<br>Cost: $0.023<br>Latency: <2.5s"]

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graph LR
    subgraph "Model Selection Matrix"
        direction TB
        H["Claude Haiku 4.5<br>Cost: $0.80/M input<br>Speed: fast<br>Use for:"]
        H1["- FAQ answers<br>- Simple recommendations<br>- Product questions<br>- Formatting structured data"]

        S["Claude Sonnet 4.6<br>Cost: $3.00/M input<br>Speed: medium<br>Use for:"]
        S1["- Complex multi-turn<br>- Nuanced recommendations<br>- Dispute resolution<br>- Ambiguous requests"]
    end

    subgraph "Traffic Distribution After Fix"
        T1["65% of LLM calls → Haiku<br>Cost per call: $0.004 avg"]
        T2["35% of LLM calls → Sonnet<br>Cost per call: $0.023 avg"]
        T3["Blended cost per LLM call:<br>0.65×$0.004 + 0.35×$0.023<br>= $0.0107<br>(was $0.023 all Sonnet)"]
    end

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graph TD
    subgraph "Cacheable Prefix (fixed across sessions)"
        CP1["System Prompt (800 tokens)"]
        CP2["RAG Chunks for FAQ/Policy<br>(for FAQ intent: same chunks<br>retrieved most of the time)<br>~1,200 tokens"]
        TOTAL["Cacheable prefix: ~2,000 tokens<br>Cached @ $0.30/M vs $3.00/M<br>= 90% cost reduction on prefix"]
    end

    subgraph "Variable Suffix (per request)"
        VS1["Product data (per ASIN)"]
        VS2["Conversation history (per session)"]
        VS3["User message (per turn)"]
    end

    subgraph "Bedrock Prompt Cache Hit Rate"
        hitrate["Before fix: 0%<br>(prompts too long to cache)<br><br>After fix: 62%<br>(prefix small enough to cache)"]
    end

    CP1 --> TOTAL
    CP2 --> TOTAL
    TOTAL --> hitrate

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graph TD
    A[User Query] --> B[Cache Key Generator<br>Hash: normalized_query<br>+ intent_type<br>+ user_segment<br>NOT user_id]

    B --> C{Cache hit in<br>ElastiCache?}
    C -->|HIT TTL valid| D["Return cached response<br>Cost: $0.00<br>Latency: <10ms"]
    C -->|MISS| E[Full LLM pipeline]
    E --> F[Store response in cache<br>TTL: 5min for recommendations<br>TTL: 30min for FAQ<br>TTL: never for prices]
    F --> G[Return response]

    subgraph "Cacheable patterns"
        P1["'What is the return policy?' → 30min"]
        P2["'Show me popular horror manga' → 5min"]
        P3["'What's the current price?' → NEVER"]
    end

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graph LR
    W1["Week 1 (pre-fix)<br>$72,000"] -->|Prices fixed<br>+guardrails| W2["Week 2<br>$51,000"]
    W2 -->|Fargate migration<br>+routing| W3["Week 3<br>$32,000"]
    W3 -->|Context bounds<br>+caching| W4["Week 4<br>$19,000"]
    W4 -->|Haiku tiering<br>+response cache| W5["Week 5<br>$12,600"]
    W5 -->|Off-peak indexing<br>+tuning| W6["Week 6<br>$9,800"]

    BUDGET["Monthly budget: $45,000<br>Week 6 projection: $42,000/month<br>✅ Within budget with headroom"]

    W6 --> BUDGET

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graph TB
    subgraph "FINAL PRODUCTION - HLD"
        Client[Web / Mobile] -->|WebSocket / HTTPS| CF[CloudFront + ALB]
        CF --> Auth[Auth + Rate Limiter]
        Auth --> ORC[ECS Fargate Orchestrator<br>30-150 tasks<br>Persistent connection pools<br>Budget-aware prompt builder]

        ORC --> ROUTE{Hybrid Router}
        ROUTE -->|free| TMPL[Template Engine]
        ROUTE -->|API| APIS[Order / Catalog / Promo APIs]
        ROUTE -->|haiku| IC[Intent Classifier<br>DistilBERT SageMaker]
        IC --> HAI[Claude Haiku<br>FAQ + Light Reco]
        ROUTE -->|sonnet| FULL[Claude Sonnet<br>Complex + Ambiguous]

        ORC --> RAGU[RAG Pipeline<br>4 Separate Indices<br>Intent-routed retrieval<br>Deduped 1.47M chunks]
        RAGU --> FULL
        RAGU --> HAI

        ORC --> MEM[Conversation Memory<br>DynamoDB<br>Bounded + Summarized History]

        FULL --> GUARD[6-Layer Guardrails Pipeline]
        HAI --> GUARD
        TMPL --> GUARD
        GUARD --> CACHE[ElastiCache<br>Response Cache + Data Cache]
        CACHE --> CF
    end

    subgraph "Overflow"
        ORC -->|>150 concurrent| LAMB[Lambda<br>Provisioned concurrency: 100]
        LAMB --> FULL
    end

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sequenceDiagram
    participant U as User
    participant WS as WebSocket Handler
    participant ORC as Orchestrator
    participant GUARD_IN as Input Guardrails
    participant ROUTE as Hybrid Router
    participant TMPL as Template Engine
    participant IC as Intent Classifier
    participant RAG as RAG Pipeline
    participant LLM as LLM (Haiku/Sonnet)
    participant GUARD_OUT as Output Guardrails
    participant CACHE as ElastiCache

    U->>WS: "What's the return policy?"
    WS->>ORC: Authenticated request
    ORC->>GUARD_IN: Input safety + injection scan
    GUARD_IN-->>ORC: Clean (40ms)
    ORC->>ROUTE: Check cache first
    ROUTE->>CACHE: GET response:faq:return_policy:hash
    CACHE-->>ROUTE: HIT (30min TTL)
    ROUTE-->>ORC: Cached response
    ORC->>GUARD_OUT: Validate cached response
    GUARD_OUT-->>ORC: Pass (10ms)
    ORC->>WS: Stream response
    WS->>U: "You can return manga within 30 days..."
    Note over U: Total: ~65ms (cache hit)

    Note over ORC: CACHE MISS scenario:
    ORC->>IC: Classify intent
    IC-->>ORC: intent=faq, confidence=0.91 (45ms)
    ORC->>RAG: Query FAQ index only (intent-routed)
    RAG-->>ORC: Top 3 FAQ chunks (280ms)
    ORC->>LLM: Budget-enforced prompt → Claude Haiku
    LLM-->>ORC: Stream response tokens
    ORC->>GUARD_OUT: Validate
    GUARD_OUT-->>ORC: Pass
    ORC->>CACHE: Store with 30min TTL
    ORC->>WS: Stream to user
    Note over U: Total P50: 980ms, P99: 1.8s

graph LR
    subgraph "POC"
        M1a["Error rate: 0%"]
        M2a["P99 latency: 2.1s"]
        M3a["Hallucination: 3%"]
        M4a["Cost/day: $5"]
        M5a["RAG recall: 89%"]
        M6a["Security: none tested"]
    end

    subgraph "Production v1 (Crisis)"
        M1b["Error rate: 23%"]
        M2b["P99 latency: 28.3s"]
        M3b["Hallucination: 18%"]
        M4b["Cost/day: $14,400"]
        M5b["RAG recall: 31%"]
        M6b["Security: breached"]
    end

    subgraph "Production v2 (Stable)"
        M1c["Error rate: 0.3%"]
        M2c["P99 latency: 1.9s"]
        M3c["Hallucination: 2.1%"]
        M4c["Cost/day: $1,400"]
        M5c["RAG recall: 79%"]
        M6c["Security: 0 breaches"]
    end

    style M1b fill:#F44336,color:white
    style M2b fill:#F44336,color:white
    style M3b fill:#F44336,color:white
    style M4b fill:#F44336,color:white
    style M5b fill:#F44336,color:white
    style M6b fill:#F44336,color:white
    style M1c fill:#4CAF50,color:white
    style M2c fill:#4CAF50,color:white
    style M3c fill:#4CAF50,color:white
    style M4c fill:#4CAF50,color:white
    style M5c fill:#4CAF50,color:white
    style M6c fill:#4CAF50,color:white

mindmap
    root(POC to Production Lessons)
        Compute
            Lambda is wrong for high concurrency LLM primary path
            ECS Fargate with persistent connection pools
            Lambda only for overflow with provisioned concurrency
            Pre-scale before predictable events
        RAG
            Clean data beats large data
            Separate indices per source type
            Deduplicate before indexing
            Route retrieval by intent not all to one index
            Domain-fine-tune your reranker
        LLM
            Every prompt section needs a hard token budget
            History must be summarized not truncated
            RAG and product data belong near the start not middle
            Price data must be stripped from RAG chunks
            Model tier to task complexity
        Security
            Regex is not a guardrail it's a suggestion
            Sandbox user input with XML delimiters
            Canary tokens catch system prompt leaks
            Sanitize RAG chunks for injection patterns
            Defense must be multi-layer and semantic
        Cost
            Route 45 percent of traffic around the LLM
            Bound context to make prompt caching work
            Cache responses not just data
            Haiku for routine Sonnet for complex
        Scale
            Test at 100x POC load before assuming it works
            Connection limits per task prevent OOM cascades
            Jitter reconnects to prevent thundering herd
            Measure scaling delay and plan for the gap