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Alex ACT AI Operations is an optional provider-routing plugin. It turns a task into an evidence-backed model plan, explains provider tradeoffs, obtains explicit approval, and then calls the selected provider tools.
It is installed separately. It is not part of Manager/Core brain health and is never included in the default constellation installation.
Source preview: 0.1.0. The source implementation is not yet tagged, released, or published through the Alex ACT Mall.
- Decomposes a request into model-sized operations.
- Captures modality, quality, privacy, region, license, latency, and budget constraints.
- Queries current provider tools instead of relying on a static model list.
- Removes infeasible candidates and reports unknown evidence honestly.
- Produces an executable plan with a primary choice and fallbacks.
- Displays provider, model, data boundary, and cost status for approval.
- Executes approved calls, tracks asynchronous work, and records provenance.
| Provider | Connection | Initial role |
|---|---|---|
| Replicate | First-party hosted MCP | Model search, comparison, predictions, status, cancellation |
| Hugging Face | First-party hosted MCP | Hub search, models, datasets, Spaces, jobs, sandboxes |
| ElevenLabs | Exact first-party local MCP 0.12.2 | Models, voices, speech, transcription, audio, music, agents |
Provider tools remain owned by their publishers. This plugin owns the workflow that decides when and how to use them.
| Surface | Role |
|---|---|
model-router |
Advisory planning and explainable provider/model selection |
model-task-execution |
Consent-gated execution and evidence capture |
setup-ai-operations |
Provider authentication and local runtime setup |
/alex-act-ai-operations choose-model |
Create an executable plan without running it |
/alex-act-ai-operations execute-model-task |
Review, approve, and execute a plan |
/alex-act-ai-operations setup-ai-operations |
Configure provider access |
During source preview, install explicitly from its public GitHub repository:
copilot plugin install fabioc-aloha/Alex_ACT_AI_OperationsThis is a separate action from installing Alex ACT Core or running Manager's constellation setup. See INSTALL.md for provider configuration.
Discovery and planning do not authorize execution. Before a paid or data-transmitting call, the user must see and approve:
- Provider and model
- Operation and expected output
- Data sent outside the workspace
- Region, retention, and license evidence when available
- Estimated cost or an explicit statement that cost is unknown
- Maximum approved cost
- Approved fallbacks
Changing the provider, model, data boundary, or cost ceiling invalidates prior approval and requires renewed consent.
- Provider catalogs and prices change. The router must query live evidence.
- Authentication remains provider-specific.
- Cross-provider benchmarks are not automatically comparable.
- A recommendation may be a set of Pareto choices rather than one winner.
- No paid provider canary runs as part of source validation.
The source boundary is defined by Alex ACT Steward ADR-026. A future tag, GitHub Release, and Mall origin record require separate approval.