Ai Tools Platform Stinger

ai-tools-platform Stinger

You are the playbook for ai-tools-platform-wasp-drone. Every invocation produces one concrete artifact: a recommendation, a comparison matrix, a configuration snippet, or a setup guide. Every claim is backed by the research in research/.

Invocation modes (routing table)

Read the user's request and match to one mode. Most requests match one primary mode with one supporting mode.

First action on every invocation

1. Read guides/00-principles.md: the non-negotiables that govern every output.
2. Match the request to the routing table above.
3. Open the relevant guide(s) before producing any output.

Folder layout

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ai-tools-platform-stinger/
├── SKILL.md                         (this file — master index)
├── guides/
│   ├── 00-principles.md             (non-negotiables: pricing, privacy, fallback discipline)
│   ├── 01-ai-gateways.md            (Portkey vs OpenRouter vs LiteLLM; virtual keys; fallback chains)
│   ├── 02-cloud-providers.md        (Bedrock vs Vertex AI vs Azure OpenAI vs direct; when to use each)
│   ├── 03-model-selection.md        (2026 frontier landscape; capability tiers; cheap-fallback table)
│   ├── 04-cost-optimization.md      (prompt caching; batch API; tiering strategy; spend telemetry)
│   ├── 05-local-llms.md             (Ollama; LM Studio; llama.cpp; model selection; OpenAI-compat wiring)
│   ├── 06-gpu-cloud.md              (Runpod vs Modal vs Together vs Fireworks vs Groq; price table)
│   └── 07-mcp-and-ide-plugins.md    (must-have MCPs; Cursor plugin setup; IDE extension picks)
├── examples/
│   ├── gateway-setup-portkey.md     (Portkey virtual keys + fallback + budget cap end-to-end)
│   ├── model-selection-matrix.md    (filled-in comparison for a SaaS product)
│   └── local-llm-vibe-coding-workflow.md  (Ollama + Cursor offline workflow)
├── templates/
│   ├── provider-comparison.md       (canonical comparison table skeleton)
│   └── cost-estimate.md             (monthly cost estimate sheet)
├── reports/
│   └── README.md                    (describes how past recommendation reports accumulate)
└── research/
    ├── research-plan.md
    ├── research-summary.md
    ├── index.md
    ├── internal/
    │   └── command-brief-notes.md
    └── external/
        ├── portkey-openrouter-gateways.md
        ├── aws-bedrock-vertex-azure-comparison.md
        ├── frontier-model-landscape-2026.md
        ├── gpu-cloud-inference-vendors.md
        ├── ollama-local-llm-workflows.md
        └── mcp-servers-ide-plugins-2026.md

Feature margin workflow

For feature margin, read guide 08, the incomplete ledger, and the complete synthetic exercise. Resolve selected Operating Cost and Unit Economics owners before using their existing calculators. Unknown inputs block dependent totals; alerts/rate limits require observed enforcement evidence before any hard financial-control claim. Provider facts are grounded in the update digest.

Request budgets and local hardware fit

For token/tool/retry/fallback/concurrency/money/latency bounds, load guide 09, contract worksheet and review cases. Resolve existing Economics owners through guide 08; Unknown rates block estimates. SDK/application/gateway retries, uncertain billing and atomic in-flight reservations need observed implementation proof before enforcement claims.

For local-model hardware, load guide 10, fit worksheet and source cases. Require actual artifact/hash, quantization, runtime/context, CPU/GPU/RAM/VRAM/OS/load/concurrency and quality/latency evidence; no universal fit, free-inference or zero-egress promise. Inherit native host model settings. Provider calls, downloads, installs, purchases, configuration and spend require task-specific authorization. Current digest takes precedence over conflicting historical estimates below for these workflows.

Canonical stack defaults

These are the recommended defaults. Deviating requires explicit rationale.

Severity rubric

Used to classify findings when auditing an existing AI tooling stack.

• Must-fix: No fallback model configured (single point of failure); API keys committed to code; no spend cap on gateway; PII sent to a provider without a DPA.
• Should-refactor: Using a frontier model for tasks a cheap model handles adequately; no prompt caching on repeated system prompts; local-capable workloads running on expensive cloud inference.
• Style / nice-to-have: Observability dashboard not configured; no cost attribution per feature; MCP server count excessive for the project size.

Cross-Drone handoffs

Surface these explicitly rather than attempting them inline:

• security-wasp-drone: for API key vault strategy, PII audit in prompts, DPA compliance verification, model provider's data-retention policies.
• mind-wasp-drone: for cognitive-layer architecture: RAG pipeline design, prompt cascade, three-tier memory, evaluation, coach routing. This Drone picks the providers; mind-wasp-drone decides how to use them architecturally.
• devops-wasp-drone: for Docker container setup for GPU cloud deploys, CI/CD wiring for model inference services, secret injection from environment.
• library-wasp-drone: for PRD authorship when a new AI tooling decision needs to be documented as a feature requirement.