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<span id="arch-terminology"></span><h1>Terminology<a class="headerlink" href="#terminology" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h1>
<p>A few definitions before we dive into the main architecture documentation. Arch borrows from Envoys terminology
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<p><strong>Downstream(Ingress)</strong>: An downstream client (web application, etc.) connects to Arch, sends prompts, and receives responses.</p>
<p><strong>Upstream(Egress)</strong>: An upstream host that receives connections and prompts from Arch, and returns context or responses for a prompt</p>
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<p><strong>Listener</strong>: A listener is a named network location (e.g., port, address, path etc.) that Arch listens on to process prompts
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(like port 80, 443) and creates a separate internal listener for calls that initiate from your application code to LLMs.</p>
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<p><strong>Instance</strong>: An instance of the Arch gateway. When you start Arch it creates at most two processes. One to handle Layer 7
networking operations (auth, tls, observability, etc) and the second process to serve models that enable it to make smart
decisions on how to accept, handle and forward prompts. The second process is optional, as the model serving sevice could be
hosted on a different network (an API call). But these two processes are considered a single instance of Arch.</p>
<p><strong>Prompt Targets</strong>: Arch offers a primitive called <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">prompt_targets</span></code> to help separate business logic from undifferentiated
work in building generative AI apps. Prompt targets are endpoints that receive prompts that are processed by Arch.
For example, Arch enriches incoming prompts with metadata like knowing when a request is a follow-up or clarifying prompt
so that you can build faster, more accurate retrieval (RAG) apps. To support agentic apps, like scheduling travel plans or
sharing comments on a document - via prompts, Bolt uses its function calling abilities to extract critical information from
the incoming prompt (or a set of prompts) needed by a downstream backend API or function call before calling it directly.</p>
<p><strong>Error Targets</strong>: Error targets are those endpoints that receive forwarded errors from Arch when issues arise,
such as failing to properly call a function/API, detecting violations of guardrails, or encountering other processing errors.
These errors are communicated to the application via headers (X-Arch-[ERROR-TYPE]), allowing it to handle the errors gracefully
and take appropriate actions.</p>
<p><strong>Model Serving</strong>: Arch is a set of <strong>two</strong> self-contained processes that are designed to run alongside your application servers
(or on a separate hostconnected via a network).The <strong>model serving</strong> process helps Arch make intelligent decisions about the
incoming prompts. The model server is designed to call the (fast) purpose-built <a class="reference internal" href="../../../llms/llms.html#llms-in-arch"><span class="std std-ref">LLMs</span></a> in Arch.</p>
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<p>Arch builds on top of Envoys single process with multiple threads architecture.</p>
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<span id="arch-overview-listeners"></span><h1>Listener<a class="headerlink" href="#listener" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h1>
<p>Listener is a top level primitive in Arch, which simplifies the configuration required to bind incoming
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<p>Arch builds on Envoys Listener subsystem to streamline connection managemet for developers. Arch minimizes
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<p>Developers can configure Arch to accept connections from downstream clients. A downstream listener acts as the
primary entry point for incoming traffic, handling initial connection setup, including network filtering, gurdrails,
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<p>Arch automatically configures a listener to route requests from your application to upstream LLM API providers (or hosts).
When you start Arch, it creates a listener for egress traffic based on the presence of the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">llm_providers</span></code> configuration
section in the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">prompt_config.yml</span></code> file. Arch binds itself to a local address such as <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">127.0.0.1:9000/v1</span></code> or a DNS-based
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<div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="linenos"> 1</span><span class="nt">version</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;0.1-beta&quot;</span>
<span class="hll"><span class="linenos"> 2</span><span class="nt">listener</span><span class="p">:</span>
</span><span class="hll"><span class="linenos"> 3</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">address</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">127.0.0.1 | 0.0.0.0</span>
</span><span class="hll"><span class="linenos"> 4</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">port_value</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">8080</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">#If you configure port 443, you&#39;ll need to update the listener with tls_certificates</span>
</span><span class="hll"><span class="linenos"> 5</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">messages</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">tuple | hugging-face-messages-api</span>
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<span class="linenos"> 7</span><span class="nt">system_prompts</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="linenos"> 8</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">network_assistant</span>
<span class="linenos"> 9</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">content</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">You are a network assistant that just offers facts about the operational health of the network</span>
<span class="linenos">10</span>
<span class="linenos">11</span><span class="nt">llm_providers</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="linenos">12</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;OpenAI&quot;</span>
<span class="linenos">13</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">access_key</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">$OPEN_AI_KEY</span>
<span class="linenos">14</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">model</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">gpt-4o</span>
<span class="linenos">15</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">default</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">true</span>
<span class="linenos">16</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;Mistral&quot;</span>
<span class="linenos">17</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">access_key</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">$MISTRAL_KEY</span>
<span class="linenos">18</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">model</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">mixtral8-7B</span>
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<span id="llm-providers"></span><h1>LLM Provider<a class="headerlink" href="#llm-provider" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h1>
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">llm_provider</span></code> is a top-level primitive in Arch, helping developers centrally define, secure, observe,
and manage the usage of of their LLMs. Arch builds on Envoys reliable <a class="reference external" href="https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/v1.31.2/intro/arch_overview/upstream/cluster_manager">cluster subsystem</a>
to manage egress traffic to LLMs, which includes intelligent routing, retry and fail-over mechanisms,
ensuring high availability and fault tolerance. This abstraction also enables developers to seamlessly switching between LLM providers or upgrade LLM versions, simplifying the integration and scaling of LLMs across
applications.</p>
<p>Below is an example of how you can configure <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">llm_providers</span></code> with an instance of an Arch gateway.</p>
<div class="literal-block-wrapper docutils container" id="id1">
<div class="code-block-caption"><span class="caption-text"><a class="reference download internal" download="" href="../../../_downloads/a0b0970c8fa22d4fe861e8362965b77c/getting-started.yml"><code class="xref download docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">arch-getting-started.yml</span></code></a></span><a class="headerlink" href="#id1" title="Link to this code">#</a></div>
<div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="linenos"> 1</span><span class="nt">version</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;0.1-beta&quot;</span>
<span class="linenos"> 2</span><span class="nt">listener</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="linenos"> 3</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">address</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">127.0.0.1 | 0.0.0.0</span>
<span class="linenos"> 4</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">port_value</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">8080</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">#If you configure port 443, you&#39;ll need to update the listener with tls_certificates</span>
<span class="linenos"> 5</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">messages</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">tuple | hugging-face-messages-api</span>
<span class="linenos"> 6</span>
<span class="linenos"> 7</span><span class="nt">system_prompts</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="linenos"> 8</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">network_assistant</span>
<span class="linenos"> 9</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">content</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">You are a network assistant that just offers facts about the operational health of the network</span>
<span class="linenos">10</span>
<span class="hll"><span class="linenos">11</span><span class="nt">llm_providers</span><span class="p">:</span>
</span><span class="hll"><span class="linenos">12</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;OpenAI&quot;</span>
</span><span class="hll"><span class="linenos">13</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">access_key</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">$OPEN_AI_KEY</span>
</span><span class="hll"><span class="linenos">14</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">model</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">gpt-4o</span>
</span><span class="hll"><span class="linenos">15</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">default</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">true</span>
</span><span class="hll"><span class="linenos">16</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;Mistral&quot;</span>
</span><span class="hll"><span class="linenos">17</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">access_key</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">$MISTRAL_KEY</span>
</span><span class="hll"><span class="linenos">18</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">model</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">mixtral8-7B</span>
</span><span class="linenos">19</span>
<span class="linenos">20</span><span class="nt">prompt_endpoints</span><span class="p">:</span>
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<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>When you start Arch, it creates a listener port for egress traffic based on the presence of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">llm_providers</span></code>
configuration section in the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">prompt_config.yml</span></code> file. Arch binds itself to a local address such as
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">127.0.0.1:9000/v1</span></code> or a DNS-based address like <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">arch.local:9000/v1</span></code> for egress traffic.</p>
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<p>Arch also offers vendor-agnostic SDKs and libraries to make LLM calls to API-based LLM providers (like OpenAI,
Anthropic, Mistral, Cohere, etc.) and supports calls to OSS LLMs that are hosted on your infrastructure. Arch
abstracts the complexities of integrating with different LLM providers, providing a unified interface for making
calls, handling retries, managing rate limits, and ensuring seamless integration with cloud-based and on-premise
LLMs. Simply configure the details of the LLMs your application will use, and Arch offers a unified interface to
make outbound LLM calls.</p>
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<h1>Example: Using the Arch Python SDK<a class="headerlink" href="#example-using-the-arch-python-sdk" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h1>
<div class="highlight-python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">arch_client</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">ArchClient</span>
<span class="c1"># Initialize the Arch client</span>
<span class="n">client</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ArchClient</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">base_url</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;http://127.0.0.1:9000/v1&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Define your LLM provider and prompt</span>
<span class="n">model_id</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;openai&quot;</span>
<span class="n">prompt</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;What is the capital of France?&quot;</span>
<span class="c1"># Send the prompt to the LLM through Arch</span>
<span class="n">response</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">client</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">completions</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">create</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">llm_provider</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">llm_provider</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">prompt</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">prompt</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Print the response</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;LLM Response:&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">response</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<p>Arch is a set of <strong>two</strong> self-contained processes that are designed to run alongside your application
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<p>Arch is designed to be deployed in your cloud VPC, on a on-premises host, and can work on devices that dont
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<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>archgw<span class="w"> </span>up<span class="w"> </span>--local<span class="w"> </span>-cpu
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<span id="arch-overview-prompt-handling"></span><h1>Prompts<a class="headerlink" href="#prompts" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h1>
<p>Archs primary design point is to securely accept, process and handle prompts. To do that effectively,
Arch relies on Envoys HTTP <a class="reference external" href="https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/v1.31.2/intro/arch_overview/http/http_connection_management">connection management</a>,
subsystem and its <strong>prompt handler</strong> subsystem engineered with purpose-built <a class="reference internal" href="../../../llms/llms.html#llms-in-arch"><span class="std std-ref">LLMs</span></a> to
implement critical functionality on behalf of developers so that you can stay focused on business logic.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>Archs <strong>prompt handler</strong> subsystem interacts with the <strong>model</strong> subsytem through Envoys cluster manager
system to ensure robust, resilient and fault-tolerant experience in managing incoming prompts. Read more
about the <a class="reference internal" href="../model_serving/model_serving.html#arch-model-serving"><span class="std std-ref">model subsystem</span></a> and how the LLMs are hosted in Arch.</p>
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<section id="messages">
<h1>Messages<a class="headerlink" href="#messages" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h1>
<p>Arch accepts messages directly from the body of the HTTP request in a format that follows the <a class="reference external" href="https://huggingface.co/docs/text-generation-inference/en/messages_api">Hugging Face Messages API</a>.
This design allows developers to pass a list of messages, where each message is represented as a dictionary
containing two key-value pairs:</p>
<blockquote>
<div><ul class="simple">
<li><p><strong>Role</strong>: Defines the role of the message sender, such as “user” or “assistant”.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Content</strong>: Contains the actual text of the message.</p></li>
</ul>
</div></blockquote>
</section>
<section id="prompt-guardrails">
<h1>Prompt Guardrails<a class="headerlink" href="#prompt-guardrails" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h1>
<p>Arch is engineered with <a class="reference internal" href="../../../llms/llms.html#llms-in-arch"><span class="std std-ref">Arch-Guard</span></a>, an industry leading safety layer, powered by a
compact and high-performimg LLM that monitors incoming prompts to detect and reject jailbreak attempts -
ensuring that unauthorized or harmful behaviors are intercepted early in the process.</p>
<p>To add jailbreak guardrails, see example below:</p>
<div class="literal-block-wrapper docutils container" id="id1">
<div class="code-block-caption"><span class="caption-text"><a class="reference download internal" download="" href="../../../_downloads/a0b0970c8fa22d4fe861e8362965b77c/getting-started.yml"><code class="xref download docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">arch-getting-started.yml</span></code></a></span><a class="headerlink" href="#id1" title="Link to this code">#</a></div>
<div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="linenos"> 1</span><span class="nt">version</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;0.1-beta&quot;</span>
<span class="linenos"> 2</span><span class="nt">listener</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="linenos"> 3</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">address</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">127.0.0.1 | 0.0.0.0</span>
<span class="linenos"> 4</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">port_value</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">8080</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">#If you configure port 443, you&#39;ll need to update the listener with tls_certificates</span>
<span class="linenos"> 5</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">messages</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">tuple | hugging-face-messages-api</span>
<span class="linenos"> 6</span>
<span class="linenos"> 7</span><span class="nt">system_prompts</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="linenos"> 8</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">network_assistant</span>
<span class="linenos"> 9</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">content</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">You are a network assistant that just offers facts about the operational health of the network</span>
<span class="linenos">10</span>
<span class="linenos">11</span><span class="nt">llm_providers</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="linenos">12</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;OpenAI&quot;</span>
<span class="linenos">13</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">access_key</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">$OPEN_AI_KEY</span>
<span class="linenos">14</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">model</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">gpt-4o</span>
<span class="linenos">15</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">default</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">true</span>
<span class="linenos">16</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;Mistral&quot;</span>
<span class="linenos">17</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">access_key</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">$MISTRAL_KEY</span>
<span class="linenos">18</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">model</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">mixtral8-7B</span>
<span class="linenos">19</span>
<span class="linenos">20</span><span class="nt">prompt_endpoints</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="linenos">21</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;http://127.0.0.2&quot;</span>
<span class="linenos">22</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;http://127.0.0.1&quot;</span>
<span class="linenos">23</span>
<span class="hll"><span class="linenos">24</span><span class="nt">prompt_guards</span><span class="p">:</span>
</span><span class="hll"><span class="linenos">25</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">input-guard</span><span class="p">:</span>
</span><span class="hll"><span class="linenos">26</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">#jailbreak</span>
</span><span class="hll"><span class="linenos">27</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">on-exception-message</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">Looks like you are curious about my abilities. But I can only</span>
</span><span class="linenos">28</span>
<span class="linenos">29</span><span class="nt">prompt_targets</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="linenos">30</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">information_extraction</span>
<span class="linenos">31</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">type</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">RAG</span>
<span class="linenos">32</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">description</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">this prompt handles all information extractions scenarios</span>
<span class="linenos">33</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">path</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">/agent/summary</span>
<span class="linenos">34</span>
<span class="linenos">35</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">reboot_network_device</span>
<span class="linenos">36</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">path</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">/agent/action</span>
<span class="linenos">37</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">description</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">used to help network operators with perform device operations like rebooting a device.</span>
<span class="linenos">38</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">parameters</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="linenos">39</span><span class="nt">error_target</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">#handle errors from Bolt or upstream LLMs</span>
<span class="linenos">40</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">“error_handler”</span>
<span class="linenos">41</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">path</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">/errors</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>As a roadmap item, Arch will expose the ability for developers to define custom guardrails via Arch-Guard-v2,
and add support for additional safety checks defined by developers and hazardous categories like, violent crimes, privacy, hate,
etc. To offer feedback on our roadmap, please visit our <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/orgs/katanemo/projects/1">github page</a></p>
</div>
</section>
<section id="prompt-targets">
<h1>Prompt Targets<a class="headerlink" href="#prompt-targets" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h1>
<p>Once a prompt passes any configured guardrail checks, Arch processes the contents of the incoming conversation
and identifies where to forwad the conversation to via its essential <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">prompt_targets</span></code> primitve. Prompt targets
are endpoints that receive prompts that are processed by Arch. For example, Arch enriches incoming prompts with
metadata like knowing when a users intent has changed so that you can build faster, more accurate RAG apps.</p>
<p>Configuring <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">prompt_targets</span></code> is simple. See example below:</p>
<div class="literal-block-wrapper docutils container" id="id2">
<div class="code-block-caption"><span class="caption-text"><a class="reference download internal" download="" href="../../../_downloads/a0b0970c8fa22d4fe861e8362965b77c/getting-started.yml"><code class="xref download docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">arch-getting-started.yml</span></code></a></span><a class="headerlink" href="#id2" title="Link to this code">#</a></div>
<div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="linenos"> 1</span><span class="nt">version</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;0.1-beta&quot;</span>
<span class="linenos"> 2</span><span class="nt">listener</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="linenos"> 3</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">address</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">127.0.0.1 | 0.0.0.0</span>
<span class="linenos"> 4</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">port_value</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">8080</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">#If you configure port 443, you&#39;ll need to update the listener with tls_certificates</span>
<span class="linenos"> 5</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">messages</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">tuple | hugging-face-messages-api</span>
<span class="linenos"> 6</span>
<span class="linenos"> 7</span><span class="nt">system_prompts</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="linenos"> 8</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">network_assistant</span>
<span class="linenos"> 9</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">content</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">You are a network assistant that just offers facts about the operational health of the network</span>
<span class="linenos">10</span>
<span class="linenos">11</span><span class="nt">llm_providers</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="linenos">12</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;OpenAI&quot;</span>
<span class="linenos">13</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">access_key</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">$OPEN_AI_KEY</span>
<span class="linenos">14</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">model</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">gpt-4o</span>
<span class="linenos">15</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">default</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">true</span>
<span class="linenos">16</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;Mistral&quot;</span>
<span class="linenos">17</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">access_key</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">$MISTRAL_KEY</span>
<span class="linenos">18</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">model</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">mixtral8-7B</span>
<span class="linenos">19</span>
<span class="linenos">20</span><span class="nt">prompt_endpoints</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="linenos">21</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;http://127.0.0.2&quot;</span>
<span class="linenos">22</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;http://127.0.0.1&quot;</span>
<span class="linenos">23</span>
<span class="linenos">24</span><span class="nt">prompt_guards</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="linenos">25</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">input-guard</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="linenos">26</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">#jailbreak</span>
<span class="linenos">27</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">on-exception-message</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">Looks like you are curious about my abilities. But I can only</span>
<span class="linenos">28</span>
<span class="hll"><span class="linenos">29</span><span class="nt">prompt_targets</span><span class="p">:</span>
</span><span class="hll"><span class="linenos">30</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">information_extraction</span>
</span><span class="hll"><span class="linenos">31</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">type</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">RAG</span>
</span><span class="hll"><span class="linenos">32</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">description</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">this prompt handles all information extractions scenarios</span>
</span><span class="hll"><span class="linenos">33</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">path</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">/agent/summary</span>
</span><span class="hll"><span class="linenos">34</span>
</span><span class="hll"><span class="linenos">35</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">reboot_network_device</span>
</span><span class="hll"><span class="linenos">36</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">path</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">/agent/action</span>
</span><span class="hll"><span class="linenos">37</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">description</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">used to help network operators with perform device operations like rebooting a device.</span>
</span><span class="hll"><span class="linenos">38</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">parameters</span><span class="p">:</span>
</span><span class="linenos">39</span><span class="nt">error_target</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">#handle errors from Bolt or upstream LLMs</span>
<span class="linenos">40</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">“error_handler”</span>
<span class="linenos">41</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">path</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">/errors</span>
</pre></div>
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<section id="intent-detection-and-prompt-matching">
<h2>Intent Detection and Prompt Matching:<a class="headerlink" href="#intent-detection-and-prompt-matching" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>Arch uses fast Natural Language Inference (NLI) and embedding approaches to first detect the intent of each
incoming prompt. This intent detection phase analyzes the prompts content and matches it against predefined
prompt targets, ensuring that each prompt is forwarded to the most appropriate endpoint. Archs intent
detection framework considers both the name and description of each prompt target, and uses a composite matching
score between an NLI and cosine similarity to enchance accuracy in forwarding decisions.</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><strong>Embeddings</strong>: By embedding the prompt and comparing it to known target vectors, Arch effectively identifies
the closest match, ensuring that the prompt is handled by the correct downstream service.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>NLI</strong>: NLI techniques further refine the matching process by evaluating the semantic alignment between the
prompt and potential targets.</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="agentic-apps-via-prompt-targets">
<h2>Agentic Apps via Prompt Targets<a class="headerlink" href="#agentic-apps-via-prompt-targets" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>To support agentic apps, like scheduling travel plans or sharing comments on a document - via prompts, Arch uses
its function calling abilities to extract critical information from the incoming prompt (or a set of prompts)
needed by a downstream backend API or function call before calling it directly. For more details on how you can
build agentic applications using Arch, see our full guide <a class="reference internal" href="../../../getting_started/use_cases/function_calling.html#arch-function-calling-agentic-guide"><span class="std std-ref">here</span></a>:</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>Arch <a class="reference internal" href="../../../llms/llms.html#llms-in-arch"><span class="std std-ref">Arch-FC</span></a> is the dedicated agentic model engineered in Arch to extract information from
a (set of) prompts and executes necessary backend API calls. This allows for efficient handling of agentic tasks,
such as scheduling data retrieval, by dynamically interacting with backend services. Arch-FC is a flagship 1.3
billion parameter model that matches performance with frontier models like Claude Sonnet 3.5 ang GPT-4, while
being 100x cheaper ($0.05M/token hosted) and 10x faster (p50 latencies of 200ms).</p>
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</section>
<section id="prompting-llms">
<h1>Prompting LLMs<a class="headerlink" href="#prompting-llms" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h1>
<p>Arch is a single piece of software that is designed to manage both ingress and egress prompt traffic, drawing its
distributed proxy nature from the robust <a class="reference external" href="https://envoyproxy.io">Envoy</a>. This makes it extremely efficient and capable
of handling upstream connections to LLMs. If your application is originating code to an API-based LLM, simply use
Archs Python or JavaScript client SDK to send traffic to the desired LLM of choice. By sending traffic through Arch,
you can propagate traces, manage and monitor traffic, apply rate limits, and utilize a large set of traffic management
capabilities in a central place.</p>
<div class="admonition attention">
<p class="admonition-title">Attention</p>
<p>When you start Arch, it automatically creates a listener port for egress calls to upstream LLMs. This is based on the
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">llm_providers</span></code> configuration section in the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">prompt_config.yml</span></code> file. Arch binds itself to a local address such as
127.0.0.1:9000/v1 or a DNS-based address like arch.local:9000/v1 for outgoing traffic.</p>
</div>
<section id="example-using-the-arch-python-sdk">
<h2>Example: Using the Arch Python SDK<a class="headerlink" href="#example-using-the-arch-python-sdk" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<div class="highlight-python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">arch_client</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">ArchClient</span>
<span class="c1"># Initialize the Arch client</span>
<span class="n">client</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ArchClient</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">base_url</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;http://127.0.0.1:9000/v1&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Define your LLM provider and prompt</span>
<span class="n">model_id</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;openai&quot;</span>
<span class="n">prompt</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;What is the capital of France?&quot;</span>
<span class="c1"># Send the prompt to the LLM through Arch</span>
<span class="n">response</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">client</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">completions</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">create</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">llm_provider</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">llm_provider</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">prompt</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">prompt</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Print the response</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;LLM Response:&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">response</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="example-using-openai-client-with-arch-as-an-egress-gateway">
<h2>Example: Using OpenAI Client with Arch as an Egress Gateway<a class="headerlink" href="#example-using-openai-client-with-arch-as-an-egress-gateway" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<div class="highlight-python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">openai</span>
<span class="c1"># Set the OpenAI API base URL to the Arch gateway endpoint</span>
<span class="n">openai</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">api_base</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;http://127.0.0.1:9000/v1&quot;</span>
<span class="c1"># No need to set openai.api_key since it&#39;s configured in Arch&#39;s gateway</span>
<span class="c1"># Use the OpenAI client as usual</span>
<span class="n">response</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">openai</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">Completion</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">create</span><span class="p">(</span>
<span class="n">model</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;text-davinci-003&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">prompt</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;What is the capital of France?&quot;</span>
<span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;OpenAI Response:&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">response</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">choices</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">text</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">strip</span><span class="p">())</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>In these examples:</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>The ArchClient is used to send traffic directly through the Arch egress proxy to the LLM of your choice, such as OpenAI.
The OpenAI client is configured to route traffic via Arch by setting the proxy to 127.0.0.1:9000, assuming Arch is
running locally and bound to that address and port.</p>
</div></blockquote>
<p>This setup allows you to take advantage of Archs advanced traffic management features while interacting with LLM APIs like OpenAI.</p>
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<span id="id1"></span><h1>Life of a Request<a class="headerlink" href="#life-of-a-request" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h1>
<p>Below we describe the events in the life of a request passing through an Arch gateway instance. We first
describe how Arch fits into the request path and then the internal events that take place following
the arrival of a request at Arch from downtream clients. We follow the request until the corresponding
dispatch upstream and the response path.</p>
<a class="reference internal image-reference" href="../_images/network-topology-ingress-egress.jpg"><img alt="../_images/network-topology-ingress-egress.jpg" class="align-center" src="../_images/network-topology-ingress-egress.jpg" style="width: 100%;" />
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<section id="terminology">
<h2>Terminology<a class="headerlink" href="#terminology" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>We recommend that you get familiar with some of the <a class="reference internal" href="architecture/intro/terminology.html#arch-terminology"><span class="std std-ref">terminology</span></a> used in Arch
before reading this section.</p>
</section>
<section id="network-topology">
<h2>Network topology<a class="headerlink" href="#network-topology" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>How a request flows through the components in a network (including Arch) depends on the networks topology.
Arch can be used in a wide variety of networking topologies. We focus on the inner operation of Arch below,
but briefly we address how Arch relates to the rest of the network in this section.</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><strong>Downstream(Ingress)</strong> listeners take requests from upstream clients like a web UI or clients that forward
prompts to you local application responses from the application flow back through Arch to the downstream.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Upstream(Egress)</strong> listeners take requests from the application and forward them to LLMs.</p></li>
</ul>
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<p>In practice, Arch can be deployed on the edge and as an internal load balancer between AI agents. A request path may
traverse multiple Arch gateways:</p>
<a class="reference internal image-reference" href="../_images/network-topology-agent.jpg"><img alt="../_images/network-topology-agent.jpg" class="align-center" src="../_images/network-topology-agent.jpg" style="width: 100%;" />
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</section>
<section id="high-level-architecture">
<h2>High level architecture<a class="headerlink" href="#high-level-architecture" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>Arch is a set of <strong>two</strong> self-contained processes that are designed to run alongside your application servers
(or on a separate server connected to your application servers via a network). The first process is designated
to manage HTTP-level networking and connection management concerns (protocol management, request id generation,
header sanitization, etc.), and the other process is for <strong>model serving</strong>, which helps Arch make intelligent
decisions about the incoming prompts. The model server hosts the purpose-built <a class="reference internal" href="../llms/llms.html#llms-in-arch"><span class="std std-ref">LLMs</span></a> to
manage several critical, but undifferentiated, prompt related tasks on behalf of developers.</p>
<p>The request processing path in Arch has three main parts:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="architecture/listeners/listeners.html#arch-overview-listeners"><span class="std std-ref">Listener subsystem</span></a> which handles <strong>downstream</strong> and <strong>upstream</strong> request
processing. It is responsible for managing the downstream (ingress) and the upstream (egress) request
lifecycle. The downstream and upstream HTTP/2 codec lives here.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="architecture/prompt_processing/prompt_processing.html#arch-overview-prompt-handling"><span class="std std-ref">Prompt handler subsystem</span></a> which is responsible for selecting and
forwarding prompts <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">prompt_targets</span></code> and establishes the lifecycle of any <strong>upstream</strong> connection to a
hosted endpoint that implements domain-specific business logic for incoming promots. This is where knowledge
of targets and endpoint health, load balancing and connection pooling exists.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="architecture/model_serving/model_serving.html#arch-model-serving"><span class="std std-ref">Model serving subsystem</span></a> which helps Arch make intelligent decisions about the
incoming prompts. The model server is designed to call the purpose-built <a class="reference internal" href="../llms/llms.html#llms-in-arch"><span class="std std-ref">LLMs</span></a> in Arch.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>The three subsystems are bridged with either the HTTP router filter, and the cluster manager subsystems of Envoy.</p>
<p>Also, Arch utilizes <a class="reference external" href="https://blog.envoyproxy.io/envoy-threading-model-a8d44b922310">Envoy event-based thread model</a>.
A main thread is responsible forthe server lifecycle, configuration processing, stats, etc. and some number of
<a class="reference internal" href="architecture/intro/threading_model.html#arch-overview-threading"><span class="std std-ref">worker threads</span></a> process requests. All threads operate around an event loop (<a class="reference external" href="https://libevent.org/">libevent</a>)
and any given downstream TCP connection will be handled by exactly one worker thread for its lifetime. Each worker
thread maintains its own pool of TCP connections to upstream endpoints.</p>
<p>Worker threads rarely share state and operate in a trivially parallel fashion. This threading model
enables scaling to very high core count CPUs.</p>
</section>
<section id="configuration">
<h2>Configuration<a class="headerlink" href="#configuration" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>Today, only support a static bootstrap configuration file for simplicity today:</p>
<div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nt">version</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;0.1-beta&quot;</span>
<span class="nt">listener</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">address</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">127.0.0.1 | 0.0.0.0</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">port_value</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">8080</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">#If you configure port 443, you&#39;ll need to update the listener with tls_certificates</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">messages</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">tuple | hugging-face-messages-api</span>
<span class="nt">system_prompts</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">network_assistant</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">content</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">You are a network assistant that just offers facts about the operational health of the network</span>
<span class="nt">llm_providers</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;OpenAI&quot;</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">access_key</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">$OPEN_AI_KEY</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">model</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">gpt-4o</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">default</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">true</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;Mistral&quot;</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">access_key</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">$MISTRAL_KEY</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">model</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">mixtral8-7B</span>
<span class="nt">prompt_endpoints</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;http://127.0.0.2&quot;</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;http://127.0.0.1&quot;</span>
<span class="nt">prompt_guards</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">input-guard</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">#jailbreak</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">on-exception-message</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">Looks like you are curious about my abilities. But I can only</span>
<span class="nt">prompt_targets</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">information_extraction</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">type</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">RAG</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">description</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">this prompt handles all information extractions scenarios</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">path</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">/agent/summary</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">reboot_network_device</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">path</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">/agent/action</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">description</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">used to help network operators with perform device operations like rebooting a device.</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">parameters</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="nt">error_target</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">#handle errors from Bolt or upstream LLMs</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">“error_handler”</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">path</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">/errors</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="request-flow-ingress">
<h2>Request Flow (Ingress)<a class="headerlink" href="#request-flow-ingress" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<section id="overview">
<h3>Overview<a class="headerlink" href="#overview" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h3>
<p>A brief outline of the life cycle of a request and response using the example configuration above:</p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li><p><strong>TCP Connection Establishment</strong>:
A TCP connection from downstream is accepted by an Arch listener running on a worker thread.
The listener filter chain provides SNI and other pre-TLS information. The transport socket, typically TLS,
decrypts incoming data for processing.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Prompt Guardrails Check</strong>:
Arch first checks the incoming prompts for guardrails such as jailbreak attempts. This ensures
that harmful or unwanted behaviors are detected early in the request processing pipeline.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Intent Matching</strong>:
The decrypted data stream is deframed by the HTTP/2 codec in Archs HTTP connection manager. Arch performs
intent matching via is <strong>prompt-handler</strong> subsystem using the name and description of the defined prompt targets,
determining which endpoint should handle the prompt.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Parameter Gathering with Arch-FC</strong>:
If a prompt target requires specific parameters, Arch engages Arch-FC to extract the necessary details
from the incoming prompt(s). This process gathers the critical information needed for downstream API calls.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>API Call Execution</strong>:
Arch routes the prompt to the appropriate backend API or function call. If an endpoint cluster is identified,
load balancing is performed, circuit breakers are checked, and the request is proxied to the upstream endpoint.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Default Summarization by Upstream LLM</strong>:
By default, if no specific endpoint processing is needed, the prompt is sent to an upstream LLM for summarization.
This ensures that responses are concise and relevant, enhancing user experience in RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
and agentic applications.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Error Handling and Forwarding</strong>:
Errors encountered during processing, such as failed function calls or guardrail detections, are forwarded to
designated error targets. Error details are communicated through specific headers to the application:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">X-Function-Error-Code</span></code>: Code indicating the type of function call error.</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">X-Prompt-Guard-Error-Code</span></code>: Code specifying violations detected by prompt guardrails.</p></li>
<li><p>Additional headers carry messages and timestamps to aid in debugging and logging.</p></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><p><strong>Response Handling</strong>:
The upstream endpoints TLS transport socket encrypts the response, which is then proxied back downstream.
Responses pass through HTTP filters in reverse order, ensuring any necessary processing or modification before final delivery.</p></li>
</ol>
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<section id="request-flow-egress">
<h2>Request Flow (Egress)<a class="headerlink" href="#request-flow-egress" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
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<section id="id2">
<h2>Overview<a class="headerlink" href="#id2" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>A brief outline of the life cycle of a request and response in the context of egress traffic from an application
to Large Language Models (LLMs) via Arch:</p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li><p><strong>HTTP Connection Establishment to LLM</strong>:
Arch initiates an HTTP connection to the upstream LLM service. This connection is handled by Archs egress listener
running on a worker thread. The connection typically uses a secure transport protocol such as HTTPS, ensuring the
prompt data is encrypted before being sent to the LLM service.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Rate Limiting</strong>:
Before sending the request to the LLM, Arch applies rate-limiting policies to ensure that the upstream LLM service
is not overwhelmed by excessive traffic. Rate limits are enforced per client or service, ensuring fair usage and
preventing accidental or malicious overload. If the rate limit is exceeded, Arch may return an appropriate HTTP
error (e.g., 429 Too Many Requests) without sending the prompt to the LLM.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Load Balancing to (hosted) LLM Endpoints</strong>:
After passing the rate-limiting checks, Arch routes the prompt to the appropriate LLM endpoint.
If multiple LLM providers instances are available, load balancing is performed to distribute traffic evenly
across the instances. Arch checks the health of the LLM endpoints using circuit breakers and health checks,
ensuring that the prompt is only routed to a healthy, responsive instance.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Response Reception and Forwarding</strong>:
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generated text, completion, or summarization. Upon reception, Arch decrypts (if necessary) and handles the response,
passing it through any egress processing pipeline defined by the application, such as logging or additional response filtering.</p></li>
</ol>
<section id="post-request-processing">
<h3>Post-request processing<a class="headerlink" href="#post-request-processing" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h3>
<p>Once a request completes, the stream is destroyed. The following also takes places:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>The post-request <a class="reference internal" href="../observability/stats.html#monitoring"><span class="std std-ref">monitoring</span></a> are updated (e.g. timing, active requests, upgrades, health checks).
Some statistics are updated earlier however, during request processing. Stats are batchedand written by the main
thread periodically.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="../observability/access_logs.html#arch-access-logging"><span class="std std-ref">Access logs</span></a> are written to the access log</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="../observability/tracing.html#arch-overview-tracing"><span class="std std-ref">Trace</span></a> spans are finalized. If our example request was traced, a
trace span, describing the duration and details of the request would be created by the HCM when
processing request headers and then finalized by the HCM during post-request processing.</p></li>
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<p>Arch is an intelligent <a class="reference external" href="https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/what-is-layer-7/">(Layer 7)</a> gateway
designed for generative AI apps, AI agents, and Co-pilots that work with prompts. Engineered with purpose-built
<a class="reference internal" href="../llms/llms.html#llms-in-arch"><span class="std std-ref">LLMs</span></a>, Arch handles all the critical but undifferentiated tasks related to the handling and
processing of prompts, including detecting and rejecting <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/verazuo/jailbreak_llms">jailbreak</a>
attempts, intelligently calling “backend” APIs to fulfill the users request represented in a prompt, routing to
and offering disaster recovery between upstream LLMs, and managing the observability of prompts and LLM interactions
in a centralized way.</p>
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<p><strong>The project was born out of the belief that:</strong></p>
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<div><p><em>Prompts are nuanced and opaque user requests, which require the same capabilities as traditional HTTP requests
including secure handling, intelligent routing, robust observability, and integration with backend (API)
systems for personalization - all outside business logic.</em></p>
</div></blockquote>
<p>In practice, achieving the above goal is incredibly difficult. Arch attempts to do so by providing the
following high level features:</p>
<hr class="docutils" />
<p><strong>Out-of-process architecture, built on</strong> <a class="reference external" href="http://envoyproxy.io/">Envoy</a>: Arch is takes a dependency on
Envoy and is a self-contained process that is designed to run alongside your application servers. Arch uses
Envoys HTTP connection management subsystem, HTTP L7 filtering and telemetry capabilities to extend the
functionality exclusively for prompts and LLMs. This gives Arch several advantages:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>Arch builds on Envoys proven success. Envoy is used at masssive sacle by the leading technology companies of
our time including <a class="reference external" href="https://www.airbnb.com">AirBnB</a>, <a class="reference external" href="https://www.dropbox.com">Dropbox</a>,
<a class="reference external" href="https://www.google.com">Google</a>, <a class="reference external" href="https://www.reddit.com">Reddit</a>, <a class="reference external" href="https://www.stripe.com">Stripe</a>,
etc. Its battle tested and scales linearly with usage and enables developers to focus on what really matters:
application features and business logic.</p></li>
<li><p>Arch works with any application language. A single Arch deployment can act as gateway for AI applications
written in Python, Java, C++, Go, Php, etc.</p></li>
<li><p>Arch can be deployed and upgraded quickly across your infrastructure transparently without the horrid pain
of deploying library upgrades in your applications.</p></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Engineered with Fast LLMs:</strong> Arch is engineered with specialized (sub-billion) LLMs that are desgined for
fast, cost-effective and acurrate handling of prompts. These <a class="reference internal" href="../llms/llms.html#llms-in-arch"><span class="std std-ref">LLMs</span></a> are designed to be
best-in-class for critcal prompt-related tasks like:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><strong>Function/API Calling:</strong> Arch helps you easily personalize your applications by enabling calls to
application-specific (API) operations via user prompts. This involves any predefined functions or APIs
you want to expose to users to perform tasks, gather information, or manipulate data. With function calling,
you have flexibility to support “agentic” experiences tailored to specific use cases - from updating insurance
claims to creating ad campaigns - via prompts. Arch analyzes prompts, extracts critical information from
prompts, engages in lightweight conversation to gather any missing parameters and makes API calls so that you can
focus on writing business logic. For more details, read <a class="reference internal" href="architecture/prompt_processing/prompt_processing.html#arch-overview-prompt-handling"><span class="std std-ref">prompt processing</span></a>.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Prompt Guardrails:</strong> Arch helps you improve the safety of your application by applying prompt guardrails in
a centralized way for better governance hygiene. With prompt guardrails you can prevent <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/verazuo/jailbreak_llms">jailbreak</a>
attempts or toxicity present in users prompts without having to write a single line of code. To learn more
about how to configure guardrails available in Arch, read <a class="reference internal" href="architecture/prompt_processing/prompt_processing.html#arch-overview-prompt-handling"><span class="std std-ref">prompt processing</span></a>.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Intent-Drift Detection:</strong> Developers struggle to handle <a class="reference external" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTPromptGenius/comments/17dzmpy/how_to_use_rag_with_conversation_history_for/?">follow-up</a>,
or <a class="reference external" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/18mqwg6/best_practice_for_rag_with_followup_chat/">clarifying</a>
questions. Specifically, when users ask for modifications or additions to previous responses their AI applications
often generate entirely new responses instead of adjusting the previous ones. Arch offers intent-drift detection as a
feature so that developers know when the user has shifted away from the previous intent so that they can improve
their retrieval, lower overall token cost and dramatically improve the speed and accuracy of their responses back
to users.</p></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Traffic Management:</strong> Arch offers several capabilities for LLM calls originating from your applications, including a
vendor-agnostic SDK to make LLM calls, smart retries on errors from upstream LLMs, and automatic cutover to other LLMs
configured in Arch for continuous availability and disaster recovery scenarios. Arch extends Envoys <a class="reference external" href="https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/intro/arch_overview/upstream/cluster_manager">cluster subsystem</a> to manage upstream connections
to LLMs so that you can build resilient AI applications.</p>
<p><strong>Front/edge Gateway:</strong> There is substantial benefit in using the same software at the edge (observability,
traffic shaping alogirithms, applying guardrails, etc.) as for outbound LLM inference use cases. Arch has the feature set
that makes it exceptionally well suited as an edge gateway for AI applications. This includes TLS termination, rate limiting,
and prompt-based routing.</p>
<p><strong>Best-In Class Monitoring:</strong> Arch offers several monitoring metrics that help you understand three
critical aspects of your application: latency, token usage, and error rates by an upstream LLM provider. Latency
measures the speed at which your application is responding to users, which includes metrics like time to first
token (TFT), time per output token (TOT) metrics, and the total latency as perceived by users.</p>
<p><strong>End-to-End Tracing:</strong> Arch propagates trace context using the W3C Trace Context standard, specifically through
the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">traceparent</span></code> header. This allows each component in the system to record its part of the request flow,
enabling <strong>end-to-end tracing</strong> across the entire application. By using OpenTelemetry, Arch ensures that
developers can capture this trace data consistently and in a format compatible with various observability tools.
For more details, read <a class="reference internal" href="../observability/tracing.html#arch-overview-tracing"><span class="std std-ref">tracing</span></a>.</p>
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