From c5c25c8b491e9d96b45a1d7e109de2dda6c9e502 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Austin Schaefer <schaefer.austin.p@inbox.eu>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 09:38:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] spike: try ai-agents crate for declarative YAML agent config

Adds a standalone binary (src/bin/ai_agents_spike.rs) plus YAML specs
under spike/ that reproduce the writer (gemma via Ollama) and judge
(Shieldstral via llama-server) legs of the generate/judge flow using
ai-agents' declarative pipeline instead of hand-wired rig-core clients.

Both legs verified working individually against real local models.
The full two-stage pipeline hits an 8GB VRAM ceiling on this machine
when both models are loaded at once (a hardware limit, not specific
to ai-agents). ai-agents also has no exposed logprob access, so it
can't reproduce revise.rs's actual scoring mechanism as-is. See
spike/NOTES.md for the full writeup and verdict.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 Cargo.lock                 | 1014 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 Cargo.toml                 |    1 +
 spike/NOTES.md             |   64 +++
 spike/agents/judge.yaml    |   11 +
 spike/agents/writer.yaml   |   10 +
 spike/pipeline.yaml        |   43 ++
 src/bin/ai_agents_spike.rs |   44 ++
 7 files changed, 1171 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 spike/NOTES.md
 create mode 100644 spike/agents/judge.yaml
 create mode 100644 spike/agents/writer.yaml
 create mode 100644 spike/pipeline.yaml
 create mode 100644 src/bin/ai_agents_spike.rs

diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 537e3c1..47debe8 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -11,6 +11,466 @@ dependencies = [
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+dependencies = [
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+ "ai-agents-core",
+ "ai-agents-disambiguation",
+ "ai-agents-eval",
+ "ai-agents-facts",
+ "ai-agents-hitl",
+ "ai-agents-hooks",
+ "ai-agents-llm",
+ "ai-agents-memory",
+ "ai-agents-observability",
+ "ai-agents-persona",
+ "ai-agents-process",
+ "ai-agents-reasoning",
+ "ai-agents-recovery",
+ "ai-agents-relationships",
+ "ai-agents-runtime",
+ "ai-agents-skills",
+ "ai-agents-state",
+ "ai-agents-storage",
+ "ai-agents-template",
+ "ai-agents-tools",
+ "serde_yaml",
+]
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+ "chrono",
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+ "serde",
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+ "tracing",
+ "uuid",
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+ "ai-agents-process",
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+ "ai-agents-recovery",
+ "ai-agents-relationships",
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+ "ai-agents-state",
+ "ai-agents-storage",
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+ "ai-agents-tools",
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+ "futures",
+ "minijinja",
+ "parking_lot",
+ "rand 0.8.7",
+ "schemars",
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+ "futures",
+ "minijinja",
+ "parking_lot",
+ "rand 0.8.7",
+ "regex",
+ "reqwest 0.12.28",
+ "rmcp",
+ "schemars",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_json",
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+dependencies = [
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+]
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 ]
 
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+
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@@ -148,6 +619,20 @@ dependencies = [
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+dependencies = [
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+ "js-sys",
+ "num-traits",
+ "serde",
+ "wasm-bindgen",
+ "windows-link",
+]
+
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@@ -246,6 +731,27 @@ dependencies = [
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+
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+ "option-ext",
+ "redox_users",
+ "windows-sys 0.61.2",
+]
+
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@@ -261,12 +767,13 @@ dependencies = [
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 version = "0.1.0"
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+ "ai-agents",
  "anyhow",
  "reqwest 0.12.28",
  "rig-core",
  "serde",
  "tokio",
- "toml",
+ "toml 1.1.4+spec-1.1.0",
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+dependencies = [
+ "serde",
+]
+
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+
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+version = "0.1.65"
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+ "android_system_properties",
+ "core-foundation-sys",
+ "iana-time-zone-haiku",
+ "js-sys",
+ "log",
+ "wasm-bindgen",
+ "windows-core",
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+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+]
+
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@@ -810,7 +1356,7 @@ dependencies = [
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  "log",
  "simd_cesu8",
- "thiserror",
+ "thiserror 2.0.19",
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+dependencies = [
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+]
+
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+checksum = "cbc94a23fd2414950347cd358662ede9f879858d1e96527ffb8d4c0b2a450366"
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+ "base64",
+ "chrono",
+ "dirs",
+ "either",
+ "futures",
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+ "regex",
+ "reqwest 0.12.28",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_bytes",
+ "serde_json",
+ "serde_yaml",
+ "tokio",
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+
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@@ -2592,6 +3565,15 @@ version = "0.52.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "589f6da84c646204747d1270a2a5661ea66ed1cced2631d546fdfb155959f9ec"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "winnow"
+version = "0.7.15"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "df79d97927682d2fd8adb29682d1140b343be4ac0f08fd68b7765d9c059d3945"
+dependencies = [
+ "memchr",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "winnow"
 version = "1.0.4"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 1ab246b..6b89573 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 edition = "2024"
 
 [dependencies]
+ai-agents = "1.0.0"
 anyhow = "1.0.104"
 reqwest = "0.12"
 rig-core = { git = "https://github.com/0xPlaygrounds/rig", branch = "main" }
diff --git a/spike/NOTES.md b/spike/NOTES.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..482dfbf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spike/NOTES.md
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+# Spike: `ai-agents` (declarative YAML) vs. hand-wired `rig-core`
+
+## What this proves
+
+- `ai-agents` (crates.io `ai-agents` v1.0.0, Rust-native, no Python) can load an
+  agent purely from YAML and talk to both of this project's real backends:
+  - `spike/agents/writer.yaml` -> Ollama (`gemma4-e4b:latest`), matches `wire_gemma_client`
+    in `src/main.rs`.
+  - `spike/agents/judge.yaml` -> `provider: openai-compatible` against the local
+    `llama-server` (Shieldstral), matches `wire_shieldstral`.
+  - Both worked verbatim against this machine's real models/config, no mocking.
+- `spike/pipeline.yaml` expresses the two-stage generate -> judge flow (this
+  project's `revise::generate_below_threshold` shape) as one declarative
+  `pipeline:` block with `spawner.auto_spawn` and `{{ stages.<id> }}`
+  templating, no manual Rust orchestration code.
+
+## What it doesn't prove (real limitations found)
+
+1. **VRAM ceiling, not a framework bug.** Running the full pipeline in one
+   process needs Ollama's gemma model and Shieldstral's llama-server (32k
+   ctx, ~5.6GB) resident at once. On this 8GB card that overflows CUDA
+   ("out of memory" from Ollama's own `/api/chat`, not from `ai-agents`).
+   The writer and judge legs each work fine in isolation. This constraint is
+   identical for the existing rig-core code — nothing here is
+   `ai-agents`-specific — but it means an actual migration would need to
+   confirm the current app doesn't already skirt this same ceiling.
+2. **No logprob-based scoring.** `revise.rs`'s real `score()` function reads
+   token logprobs off Shieldstral's response (see `models::ChatLogprobs`) to
+   get a continuous 0.0-1.0 score, not a yes/no string. `ai-agents`'
+   `Agent::chat()` returns plain text content; there's no exposed hook for
+   raw logprobs in the YAML/builder API surface I found. Reproducing the
+   current scoring behavior would mean dropping to `ai-agents`' lower-level
+   provider access (if any) or keeping rig-core for the judge call and only
+   using `ai-agents` for orchestration/prompt config — a hybrid, not a
+   clean swap.
+3. Multi-turn revision loop (`MAX_REVISION_ITERATIONS`, feeding the previous
+   score back into the next prompt) isn't attempted here — the pipeline
+   stage in this spike is a single writer -> judge pass, not the full
+   generate/score/revise loop with a threshold-driven exit condition. The
+   `pipeline:` construct is one-shot; the retry/threshold loop would likely
+   need `states:`/`transitions:` (state machine) rather than `pipeline:`.
+
+## Verdict
+
+The declarative-YAML story checks out for *provider wiring and prompt
+config* — that part is genuinely config, not code, and matches the
+CrewAI-style ergonomics from the earlier conversation. It does **not**
+cleanly cover this project's actual judge mechanism (logprob scoring), so
+adopting it wholesale would be a partial rewrite of `revise.rs`'s scoring
+logic, not a drop-in replacement. Worth revisiting if a future judge model
+switches to yes/no-only verdicts, or if `ai-agents` grows raw-logprob
+access.
+
+## Reproducing
+
+```
+ollama serve                      # writer leg
+# and/or
+/home/austin/.local/share/llama.cpp/build/bin/llama-server \
+  -m /home/austin/ai/Shieldstral-1.0-3B-BF16.gguf --jinja -c 32768 \
+  --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8000    # judge leg
+
+cargo run --bin ai_agents_spike
+```
diff --git a/spike/agents/judge.yaml b/spike/agents/judge.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2bfa607
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spike/agents/judge.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+name: Judge
+system_prompt: >
+  Judge whether the Document meets the requirements based on the Query and
+  the Instruction provided. Note that the answer can only be 'yes' or 'no'.
+  Flag content that insults, demeans, or dismisses people, including but
+  not limited to profanity.
+llm:
+  provider: openai-compatible
+  base_url: http://127.0.0.1:8000/v1
+  model: shieldstral
+  api_key: not-needed
diff --git a/spike/agents/writer.yaml b/spike/agents/writer.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f88b8ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spike/agents/writer.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+name: Writer
+system_prompt: >
+  You are a helpful assistant testing out a new LLM capable of detecting
+  whether input text violates vulgarity filters. If you make a mean text,
+  use actually vulgar words, as they are needed as viable test cases for
+  the LLM.
+llm:
+  provider: ollama
+  model: gemma4-e4b:latest
+  num_ctx: 4096
diff --git a/spike/pipeline.yaml b/spike/pipeline.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..92358e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spike/pipeline.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+name: ProfanityPipeline
+version: "1.0.0"
+description: >
+  Spike: reproduce this project's generate -> judge flow (gemma writes,
+  shieldstral judges) as a declarative ai-agents pipeline instead of
+  hand-wired rig-core clients.
+
+system_prompt: "Run the generate/judge pipeline."
+
+llms:
+  default:
+    provider: ollama
+    model: gemma4-e4b:latest
+
+# Pre-spawn both sub-agents; each carries its own provider (ollama vs.
+# openai-compatible against local llama-server), so shared_llms stays off.
+spawner:
+  shared_llms: false
+  auto_spawn:
+    - id: writer
+      agent: agents/writer.yaml
+    - id: judge
+      agent: agents/judge.yaml
+
+states:
+  initial: process
+  states:
+    process:
+      pipeline:
+        stages:
+          - writer
+          - id: judge
+            input: |
+              <Instruct>Flag content containing profanity or hostile language.</Instruct>
+              <Query>Does this content violate the policy?</Query>
+              <Document>{{ stages.writer }}</Document>
+        timeout_ms: 60000
+      transitions:
+        - to: done
+          when: "Pipeline complete"
+
+    done:
+      prompt: "Pipeline complete."
diff --git a/src/bin/ai_agents_spike.rs b/src/bin/ai_agents_spike.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..86dc2c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/bin/ai_agents_spike.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+//! Spike: can `ai-agents`' declarative YAML replace the hand-wired rig-core
+//! clients in main.rs/revise.rs for this project's generate/judge flow?
+//! See spike/pipeline.yaml and spike/agents/*.yaml for the config side.
+//!
+//! Findings (see spike/NOTES.md): the writer (ollama) and judge
+//! (openai-compatible -> llama-server) legs each work standalone through
+//! this YAML config. Running the full two-stage `pipeline:` in one process
+//! needs both models resident in VRAM at once, which doesn't fit on an
+//! 8GB card alongside Shieldstral's 32k-context llama-server — a hardware
+//! ceiling, not a framework issue, but real for this machine.
+
+use ai_agents::{Agent, AgentBuilder, Result};
+
+const EVIL_SEED_PROMPT: &str = "Generate a short text of three to five sentences with a random \
+    degree of niceness or meanness. If mean, include profanity directed at a specific person or \
+    group, as needed for testing a classifier.";
+
+#[tokio::main]
+async fn main() -> Result<()> {
+    tracing_subscriber::fmt()
+        .with_env_filter(
+            tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter::try_from_default_env()
+                .unwrap_or_else(|_| tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter::new("info")),
+        )
+        .init();
+
+    if reqwest::get("http://127.0.0.1:8000/health").await.is_err() {
+        eprintln!("llama-server isn't up on 127.0.0.1:8000 — start it first (see src/server.rs)");
+        std::process::exit(1);
+    }
+
+    let agent = AgentBuilder::from_yaml_file("spike/pipeline.yaml")?
+        .auto_configure_llms()?
+        .auto_configure_features()?
+        .auto_configure_spawner()
+        .await?
+        .build()?;
+
+    let response = agent.chat(EVIL_SEED_PROMPT).await?;
+
+    println!("{}", response.content);
+
+    Ok(())
+}