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+Requires-Dist: fastapi>=0.115.0
+Requires-Dist: uvicorn[standard]>=0.30.0
+Requires-Dist: httpx>=0.27.2
+Requires-Dist: pydantic<3.0,>=2.0
+Requires-Dist: pydantic-settings>=2.5.2
+Requires-Dist: python-dotenv>=1.0.1
+Requires-Dist: litellm<1.88,>=1.83.7
+Requires-Dist: redis<6,>=5.0.8
+Requires-Dist: pyyaml>=6.0.2
+Requires-Dist: numpy<2,>=1.26.0
+Requires-Dist: fastembed>=0.3.0
+Requires-Dist: llmlingua>=0.2.0
+Requires-Dist: torch>=2.8.0
+Requires-Dist: transformers>=4.53.0
+Requires-Dist: cryptography>=42.0.0
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+<p align="center">
+  <img src="./assets/logo.png" alt="Sriti Core Logo" width="220" />
+</p>
+
+<h1 align="center">Sriti Core</h1>
+
+<p align="center">
+  <strong>Intelligent, Reliability-Aware Model Routing & Cascade Engine for LLMs</strong>
+</p>
+
+<p align="center">
+  <a href="#key-features">Key Features</a> •
+  <a href="#architecture">Architecture</a> •
+  <a href="#quickstart">Quickstart</a> •
+  <a href="#how-it-works">How It Works</a> •
+  <a href="#configuration">Configuration</a> •
+  <a href="#api-reference">API Reference</a> •
+  <a href="#testing">Testing</a> •
+  <a href="#license">License</a>
+</p>
+
+---
+
+## Overview
+
+**Sriti Core** is an open-source, ultra-efficient intelligent routing proxy and cascading engine for Large Language Models.
+
+Instead of routing every single request to expensive frontier models (like Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-4o), Sriti dynamically categorizes the request, checks an encrypted semantic cache, and cascades through a hierarchy of models:
+1. **Tier 3 (Local / Fast):** Free, local models running on edge devices or on-prem hardware via Ollama (e.g., Qwen 2.5, Llama 3.2, MiniCPM).
+2. **Tier 2 (Balanced Cloud):** High-throughput, cost-effective inference providers (e.g., Groq, Fireworks, DeepInfra).
+3. **Tier 1 (Frontier):** Capable reasoning models invoked only when task complexity warrants it, or when lower tiers fail verification or latency SLOs.
+
+Sriti continuously learns model reliability, evaluates output quality gates, and guarantees strict latency SLOs while dramatically slashing cloud API bills.
+
+---
+
+## Key Features
+
+- 🎯 **In-Process Task Classifier:** Zero-shot task classification using fast ONNX runtime (`fastembed` BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5) mapping prompts across categories (e.g., Code, Extraction, Summarization, QA, Math, Reasoning).
+- ⚡ **Semantically Aware Caching:** Vector similarity caching backed by Redis/Valkey with task-dependent cosine thresholds. Uncacheable tasks (e.g., non-deterministic reasoning, math) bypass the cache automatically.
+- 🔒 **Encrypted Cache at Rest:** Optional AES-GCM (256-bit) authenticated encryption for cached prompt and completion payloads.
+- 🗜️ **In-Process Prompt Compression:** LLMLingua-2 integration to compress lengthy contexts before sending them over the wire, with an adaptive quality gate to ensure semantic integrity.
+- 📊 **Dynamic Cascade with Quality Gates:** Evaluates lower-tier completions using structural validation (e.g. JSON validation) or semantic quality scoring. If a tier's response fails, it automatically escalates to the next tier.
+- 📈 **Online Reliability Profile Learner:** Real-time Exponential Moving Average (EMA) tracking of per-model latency, success rate, and error states without needing external analytical databases.
+- 🧠 **Case-Based Memory (KNN Routing):** Remembers past routing decisions and dynamically adjusts candidate selection bias based on historical outcome rewards.
+- 🛡️ **Lightweight & Self-Contained:** Uses a native NumPy cosine similarity vector store requiring no proprietary Redis modules (no RediSearch or RedisJSON needed). Works seamlessly on vanilla Redis or Valkey.
+- 🔌 **Unified LLM Execution:** Powered by LiteLLM to seamlessly talk to 100+ LLM providers and local inference runtimes.
+
+---
+
+## Architecture
+
+```text
+               User / Application Request
+                           │
+                           ▼
+          ┌──────────────────────────────────┐
+          │     1. Fast ONNX Classifier      │ ──> Task Category & Embeddings
+          └──────────────────────────────────┘
+                           │
+                           ▼
+          ┌──────────────────────────────────┐
+          │    2. Semantic Cache (Valkey)    │ ──[Hit]──> Return Cached Response
+          └──────────────────────────────────┘
+                           │ [Miss]
+                           ▼
+          ┌──────────────────────────────────┐
+          │  3. Model Cascading Engine       │
+          │                                  │
+          │  ┌────────────────────────────┐  │
+          │  │ Tier 3: Local Edge Models  │  │ ──[Success]──> Accept & Learn
+          │  └────────────────────────────┘  │
+          │                 │ [Fail/Timeout] │
+          │  ┌────────────────────────────┐  │
+          │  │ Tier 2: Cost-Effective LLM │  │ ──[Success]──> Accept & Learn
+          │  └────────────────────────────┘  │
+          │                 │ [Fail/Timeout] │
+          │  ┌────────────────────────────┐  │
+          │  │ Tier 1: Frontier Models    │  │ ──[Guaranteed Execution]
+          │  └────────────────────────────┘  │
+          └──────────────────────────────────┘
+                           │
+                           ▼
+          ┌──────────────────────────────────┐
+          │  4. Update Reliability & Cache   │
+          └──────────────────────────────────┘
+```
+
+---
+
+## Quickstart
+
+### 1. Installation
+
+Python 3.11+ is required.
+
+**Via pip (recommended):**
+```bash
+pip install sriti-core
+```
+
+**From source:**
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/sriti-ai/sriti-core.git
+cd sriti-core
+pip install -e ".[dev]"
+```
+
+### 2. Configure Environment
+
+Create a `.env` file with your credentials and configuration:
+
+```env
+SRITI_REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379/0
+# Optional: Provider API keys (only configure what you use)
+ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...
+OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...
+GROQ_API_KEY=gsk_...
+# Optional: AES-256 GCM key for cache encryption (base64-encoded 32 bytes)
+# CACHE_ENCRYPTION_KEY=...
+```
+
+### 3. Start the Sriti Server
+
+```bash
+uvicorn sriti.app:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8100
+```
+
+### 4. Send a Request via HTTP
+
+```bash
+curl -X POST http://localhost:8100/complete \
+  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+  -d '{
+    "prompt": "Extract invoice items and total amount from this ledger snippet...",
+    "minimum_tier": "tier_3",
+    "cacheable": true,
+    "requires_json": true
+  }'
+```
+
+### 5. Python Client SDK
+
+You can also use the bundled async Python client:
+
+```python
+import asyncio
+from sriti.client import SritiModelClient
+
+async def main():
+    client = SritiModelClient(base_url="http://localhost:8100")
+    response = await client.complete(
+        prompt="Explain the difference between a mutual fund and an ETF in two sentences.",
+        minimum_tier="tier_3",
+        cacheable=True
+    )
+    print(f"Response: {response.text}")
+    print(f"Tier Used: {response.tier_used}")
+    print(f"Latency: {response.latency_ms}ms")
+    print(f"Cost: ${response.cost_usd}")
+
+asyncio.run(main())
+```
+
+---
+
+## How It Works
+
+### 1. Task Classification
+Prompts are embedded using `fastembed` and compared against predefined semantic task anchors (or an optional lightweight classification head). The classifier runs completely locally in under 10ms.
+
+### 2. Multi-Tier Semantic Cache
+- Tasks have configurable similarity thresholds in `policy.yaml`. For example, conversational questions allow a similarity threshold of `0.75`, while structured data extraction requires `0.92`.
+- Vectors and encrypted payloads are stored in Valkey/Redis.
+
+### 3. Reliability-Driven Cascading
+- For each tier, active candidates in `models.yaml` are evaluated based on their Pareto score: a composite metric factoring in latency, cost, and historical success probability.
+- If a lower tier experiences an API error, context window exhaustion, or fails a verification check (e.g. invalid JSON syntax), Sriti escalates seamlessly to the next tier.
+
+---
+
+## Configuration
+
+Sriti's configuration is managed through two clean YAML files in `sriti/config/`:
+
+- **`models.yaml`**: Defines model providers, context windows, cost per token, and tier mappings (`default_tier: 1 | 2 | 3`).
+- **`policy.yaml`**: Defines cache TTLs, per-task similarity thresholds, latency SLOs, and quality gate cutoffs.
+
+---
+
+## Testing
+
+Run unit and cascade integration tests using pytest:
+
+```bash
+pytest
+```
+
+All 39 unit tests run without requiring live LLM API keys or a running Redis instance (mocked in-memory).
+
+---
+
+## License
+
+This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.