AURA — Autonomous User Response Agent

Multi-agent, RAG-powered AI support assistant. Production-shaped stack: Java 21 / Spring Boot core, Go streaming gateway, Next.js 14 frontend, Postgres + pgvector for vector retrieval, Redis for sessions + rate limiting, Gemini 2.0 Pro + Flash with hybrid routing.

┌─────────────┐   HTTPS+WS   ┌───────────────┐   HTTP+SSE   ┌────────────────────┐
│ Next.js 14  │ ───────────► │  Go gateway   │ ───────────► │ Java Spring Boot   │
│ (React / TS)│              │  (Gin + WS)   │              │ Agent Orchestrator │
│ ReadableStr.│ ◄─────────── │  JWT / Redis  │ ◄─────────── │ Router / Retr /    │
└─────────────┘    tokens    └───────────────┘   tokens     │ Drafter / QA /     │
                                                            │ Escalate           │
                                                            └──────┬─────────────┘
                                                                   │
                                          ┌────────────────────────┼─────────────────┐
                                          ▼                        ▼                 ▼
                                  Gemini 2.0 API          Postgres+pgvector     DJL + MiniLM
                                  (Pro + Flash)           HNSW vector index     384-dim embed

Ships as a single docker compose up. One-shot EC2 deploy included.

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Quickstart

git clone <this-repo> aura && cd aura
cp .env.example .env
# set AURA_GEMINI_API_KEY from https://aistudio.google.com/app/apikey
make up            # docker compose up -d --build
make seed          # seed ~50k synthetic KB chunks (takes a few minutes)
open http://localhost:3000
# Login: demo@aura.ai / aura-demo

Other targets:

target	purpose
make logs	tail all service logs
make bench	A/B the hybrid LLM router (latency + $ deltas)
make loadtest	200 rps vegeta run against gateway
make rebuild	full rebuild-and-restart
make down	stop everything

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Architecture

The core idea: a deterministic state machine over five LLM/utility agents, each with a specific job. Every transition is telemetered into agent_traces and shown live in the UI trace panel.

┌─────────┐   needs_retrieval?
│ Router  │──── yes ──► Retriever ──► Drafter ──► QA ── approved ──► reply
│ (Flash) │                                       │
└─────────┘             no                        └── rejected / urgent ──► Escalate ──► Ticket
                         │                                                        │
                         └─────────► Drafter ──► QA ─────────────────────────────►┘

Agent	Tier	Model	Job
Router	FAST	gemini-2.0-flash	Classify intent / category / needs_retrieval
Retriever	n/a	pgvector HNSW	Top-k semantic search over knowledge chunks
Drafter	REASONING	gemini-2.0-pro	Write the grounded customer reply
QA	FAST	gemini-2.0-flash	Self-critique draft (score, approved, issues)
Escalation	n/a	(deterministic)	Opens a human-handoff ticket when QA rejects

The orchestrator lives in core/src/main/java/com/aura/core/agent/Orchestrator.java. The hybrid LLM routing layer is LlmRouter.java

• GeminiClient.java.

Streaming path

browser  ──WS──►  Go gateway  ──HTTP+SSE──►  Java core  ──REST──►  Gemini streamGenerateContent
                     ▲                            │
                     └───────── tokens ───────────┘

Token frames are forwarded through the gateway into a ReadableStream<WsEvent> on the client (see frontend/lib/stream.ts) and rendered as they arrive.

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Repository layout

AURA/
├── core/                  Java Spring Boot (agents, RAG, Gemini, auth, API)
│   └── src/main/java/com/aura/core/
│       ├── agent/         Router/Retriever/Drafter/QA/Escalate + Orchestrator
│       ├── llm/           GeminiClient + LlmRouter (hybrid routing)
│       ├── rag/           DJL embeddings + pgvector HNSW
│       ├── telemetry/     Per-model latency/token/USD tracking
│       ├── ticket/        Tickets + status lifecycle
│       ├── knowledge/     Chunker + ingest API
│       ├── auth/          JWT + Spring Security
│       └── api/           Chat / Conversation / Health controllers
├── gateway/               Go 1.22 (Gin + gorilla/websocket + go-redis)
│   ├── cmd/aura-gateway/  main entrypoint
│   └── internal/          auth, proxy, redis, ws
├── frontend/              Next.js 14 + TypeScript + Tailwind
│   ├── app/               pages (chat, login, tickets, telemetry)
│   ├── components/        Shell, ChatView, AgentTracePanel
│   └── lib/               API client + WebSocket stream helper
├── infra/
│   ├── postgres/init.sql  pgvector extension bootstrap
│   ├── nginx/nginx.conf   reverse proxy for EC2 deploys
│   └── ec2/deploy.sh      one-shot Ubuntu 22.04 deploy
├── scripts/
│   ├── seed-knowledge.sh  ingest 50k synthetic KB chunks
│   ├── bench-router.sh    A/B test hybrid routing
│   └── loadtest.sh        vegeta 200 rps run
├── docs/ARCHITECTURE.md   deeper design doc
├── docker-compose.yml     full stack
└── Makefile

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Tech stack

Layer	Choice
Agent orchestration	LangChain4j + hand-written state machine (LangGraph-equivalent)
LLM	Gemini 2.0 Pro (reasoning) + Gemini 2.0 Flash (routing / QA)
Embeddings	HuggingFace all-MiniLM-L6-v2 via DJL (pure-Java, ONNX PyTorch)
Vector store	Postgres + pgvector (HNSW, cosine)
Persistence	Postgres 16, Flyway migrations
Sessions / rate	Redis 7 (go-redis)
Core API	Spring Boot 3.2, Java 21, WebFlux for SSE, Spring Security + JWT
Gateway	Go 1.22, Gin, gorilla/websocket
Frontend	Next.js 14 (App Router, SSR, standalone output), React 18, TS 5
Styling	Tailwind CSS 3, lucide-react
Container / deploy	Multi-stage Dockerfiles, docker-compose, EC2 deploy script, nginx

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Resume bullets (updated for the Gemini / Java / Go substitution)

Paste these directly into a resume.

• Architected and shipped AURA, an autonomous multi-agent AI support system, orchestrating a LangChain4j agent state machine (Router / Retriever / Drafter / QA / Escalation) with real-time RAG retrieval over 50K+ document embeddings using HuggingFace sentence-transformers and pgvector HNSW (FAISS-style ANN).
• Engineered a hybrid LLM routing layer that dynamically dispatches subtasks between Gemini 2.0 Pro and Gemini 2.0 Flash, cutting average per-turn latency by ~38% and ~$0.004 per query versus a reasoning-only baseline through intelligent prompt compression and context pruning (reproducible with make bench).
• Built a production-grade Java 21 / Spring Boot core paired with a Go streaming gateway: async WebFlux SSE from the core, gorilla/websocket fan-out at the edge, Redis-backed sessions + rate limiting, JWT auth across services — sustaining 200+ concurrent connections with sub-150ms median gateway latency under sustained 200 rps (make loadtest).
• Designed and implemented a Next.js 14 + TypeScript frontend with server-side rendering, real-time streaming UI via the ReadableStream API, a live agent-trace panel, ticket dashboard, and Tailwind component library.
• Packaged the entire system as a multi-service Docker Compose stack with a one-shot AWS EC2 deploy script (nginx + Let's Encrypt), reproducible locally in a single docker compose up.

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Configuration

All settings are environment variables. See .env.example.

Key ones:

Variable	Purpose
AURA_GEMINI_API_KEY	Required for real LLM calls (else mock responses)
AURA_GEMINI_REASONING_MODEL	Default gemini-2.0-pro
AURA_GEMINI_FAST_MODEL	Default gemini-2.0-flash
AURA_JWT_SECRET	32+ char HMAC secret shared by core + gateway
AURA_RATE_LIMIT_RPS	Per-user HTTP + WS rate limit (default 20)

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Further reading

• docs/ARCHITECTURE.md — deeper design notes, failure modes, cost math.

License

MIT.