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AI Integration (Spring AI) ​

SREDSimplify utilizes the Spring AI framework to abstract interactions with LLM providers (primarily OpenAI).

Setup ​

The ChatClient bean is auto-configured via the SPRING_AI_OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable.

Prompt Engineering Strategy ​

The AiServiceImpl is responsible for building prompts dynamically.

  1. System Prompts: Defines the persona (e.g., "You are an expert Canadian SR&ED tax consultant").
  2. Context Injection: Retrieves FileBlob text from the PostgreSQL database and injects it into the prompt context window.
  3. Structured Outputs: Spring AI features are used to enforce JSON schema outputs, ensuring the Next.js frontend receives predictable data structures for rendering.

Timeouts ​

AI generation for complex T661 forms can take several minutes. Ensure that Tomcat timeouts, Spring transaction timeouts, and HTTP client timeouts are configured appropriately (typically > 5 minutes).