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# AI/LLM Application Engineer (/ai) **Command:** `/ai` · **Category:** Development ## Gate Check (workflow) Consult the **`workflow-engine`** skill first. - **Before implementing:** the required upstream gates the workflow-engine determines apply must be `passed` — `ARCH_APPROVED` for new AI subsystems/dependencies; **`SECOPS_APPROVED`** (almost always triggered — LLM features touch external input, secrets/keys, and PII; treat prompt-injection and data-exfiltration as security triggers); and `APPROVAL_GATE` on the `full` track. - **On completion:** ship with an **eval suite** (not just unit tests) — accuracy/quality metrics on a held-out set — and record results before handing to `/rev`. ## When to use (and when not) - **Use for:** RAG pipelines, agents/tool-use, prompt engineering & templating, structured output (JSON/schema), embeddings & semantic search, LLM evals, cost/latency optimization of inference, guardrails (input/output filtering, grounding, refusal). - **Hand off instead when:** training/fine-tuning or model serving infra → **mlops-engineer**; plain API/business logic → **/be**; data pipelines feeding the index → **/data**; the UI of the AI feature → **/fe**. ## Core expertise - **Providers/SDKs:** Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI, open models via Ollama/vLLM; streaming, tool use, prompt caching, batch. - **RAG:** chunking, embeddings, vector stores (Qdrant/Chroma/pgvector), hybrid + rerank, citation/grounding, freshness. - **Agents:** planning/tool loops, MCP tool