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Name: minelabs-rekha
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Summary: High-Performance System-1 Control Plane and Gateway for Production RAG
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# REKHA (रेखा)

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  <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache_2.0-blue.svg" alt="License: Apache 2.0" />
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  <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/API_Keys-Zero_Required-orange.svg" alt="Zero API Keys" />
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<h3 align="center">
  <b>The High-Performance System-1 Control Plane for Production RAG</b>
</h3>

<p align="center">
  Cut LLM token bills by 50%+, block prompt injections in 35ms, and eliminate hallucinations with a single Python decorator. Zero external API calls, zero migration friction, 100% free and open-source.
</p>

<p align="center">
  <a href="landing/index.html"><b>🌐 Interactive Landing Page</b></a> •
  <a href="Architecture.md"><b>🏗️ Technical Architecture</b></a> •
  <a href="BENCHMARK_REPORT.md"><b>📊 Benchmark Report</b></a> •
  <a href="#-what-makes-rekha-different-from-competitors"><b>🥊 Competitor Teardown</b></a>
</p>

---

## ⚡ The Core USP (Unique Selling Proposition)

> **"Rekha is the first zero-latency, 100% open-source System-1 control plane that wraps around any existing RAG pipeline in 1 line of code—cutting token bills by 50%, blocking prompt injections in 35ms, and preventing hallucinations with zero external API keys."**

### Why Developers Choose Rekha:
1. **Zero Migration Friction (The 1-Line Decorator):** You don't re-index your vector database, you don't change your embeddings, and you don't rewrite your prompts. Just add `@gateway.protect`.
2. **Sub-35ms Non-Autoregressive Determinism:** Rekha doesn't use a slow generative LLM to police another LLM. It uses a mathematical non-autoregressive encoder (`Choice`, `Score`, `Noul`) that responds in 35ms and physically cannot be hijacked by prompt injections.
3. **100% Air-Gapped & Free:** Zero cloud telemetry, zero API keys, zero dollars spent. Your proprietary company data never leaves your local CPU or GPU.

---

## 🏗️ Architecture: The 5-Layer Sandwich Control Plane

```
                    ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                    │                      REKHA GATEWAY                     │
User Query ────────►│                                                        │
                    │  [ INBOUND STAGE ]                                     │
                    │  1. Guard Gate          (Injection, PII, Policy)       │
                    │  2. Cache Gate          (Canonical Intent Mapping)     │
                    │  3. Query Router        (Direct / Tool / Vector Index) │
                    │                                                        │
                    │  [ RETRIEVAL STAGE ]                                   │
                    │  4. Context Optimizer   (Micro-slice, Parallel Score,  │
                    │                          Budget Packer)                │
                    └───────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┘
                                                │
                                                ▼
                                    ┌───────────────────────┐
                                    │     EXISTING RAG      │
                                    │  (100% Untouched)     │
                                    │  Vector DB  │   LLM   │
                                    └───────────┬───────────┘
                                                │
                    ┌───────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┐
                    │  [ OUTBOUND STAGE ]                                    │
                    │  5. Verification Gate   (Negative Constraints,         │
                    │                          Entity Anchor, Grounding)     │
                    │                                                        │
                    │  Decision:  [ SUPPORTED ]   ──► Stream to User         │
                    │             [ BLOCK/RETRY ] ──► Fallback / Regenerate  │
                    └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

---

## ⏱️ Live Response Times (Empirically Measured on Local CPU/GPU)

| Layer | Component Name | Function / Decision | Response Time | vs. LLM-Prompt Guardrails |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :---: | :--- |
| **Layer 1** | **Inbound Guard Gate** | Evaluates prompt injections, jailbreaks, PII & toxicity | **~37 ms** | **~80x faster** than calling GPT-4o (2,500ms) |
| **Layer 2** | **Inbound Cache Gate** | Canonical Intent Clustering + local memory LRU | **~35 ms** | **~90x faster** than a full Vector DB + LLM call |
| **Layer 3** | **Query Router** | Categorizes `BYPASS`, `TOOL`, or `VECTOR` partition | **~38 ms** | **~75x faster** than LLM tool routers |
| **Layer 4** | **Context Optimizer** | Micro-slicing + parallel batch scoring + knapsack packing | **~69 ms** | Slices 50%+ noise in memory |
| **Layer 5** | **Outbound Verifier** | Entity anchor audit ($ / dates) + negative constraint check | **~72 ms** | Replaces 3-second LLM-as-a-judge evals |

> **The Net Latency Paradox:** Rekha adds ~180ms of total control overhead on full RAG, but because it prunes 50%+ of input tokens, the downstream LLM streams its first token **800ms faster**. **Net result: The user gets their answer ~620ms FASTER.**

---

## 📦 Installation & Zero-Config Setup

Installing Rekha takes one command. Rekha runs **100% locally and offline**—it does not require any API keys, tokens, or external network connections:

```bash
pip install rekha
```

### How Model Weights Work:
* **Automatic Download**: On your very first invocation of `gateway = RekhaGateway()`, the lightweight non-autoregressive decision model weights (~700MB) are automatically downloaded from Hugging Face into your standard local cache (`~/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--convaiinnovations--laya`).
* **Zero External Calls Thereafter**: Once downloaded, Rekha runs completely air-gapped on your local CPU or GPU.
* **Air-Gapped / Docker Deployments**: To bake the weights directly into an offline container image without runtime internet access:
  ```dockerfile
  RUN pip install rekha
  RUN python -c "import laya; from laya import Laya; Laya()"
  ENV REKHA_AIRGAPPED=true
  ```

---

## 🚀 Quickstart: What Changes in Your Code? (Literally 2 Lines)

### Before (Regular RAG)
```python
import openai

def my_rag_pipeline(user_query: str):
    chunks = my_vector_db.similarity_search(user_query, k=5)
    context = "\n\n".join([c.page_content for c in chunks])
    
    response = openai.chat.completions.create(
        model="gpt-4o",
        messages=[
            {"role": "system", "content": f"Answer based on:\n{context}"},
            {"role": "user", "content": user_query}
        ]
    )
    return response.choices[0].message.content
```

### After (Rekha-Protected RAG)
```python
import openai
from rekha import RekhaGateway       # <--- 1. Import Rekha

gateway = RekhaGateway()             # <--- 2. Initialize locally (0 API keys)

@gateway.protect                     # <--- 3. Add this one decorator
def my_rag_pipeline(user_query: str):
    chunks = my_vector_db.similarity_search(user_query, k=5)
    context = "\n\n".join([c.page_content for c in chunks])
    
    response = openai.chat.completions.create(
        model="gpt-4o",
        messages=[
            {"role": "system", "content": f"Answer based on:\n{context}"},
            {"role": "user", "content": user_query}
        ]
    )
    return response.choices[0].message.content, context
```

---

## 🥊 What Makes Rekha Different From Competitors?

### A. vs. DIRECT COMPETITORS (The Point Solutions)

| Competitor Category | Key Players | How They Work | Why Rekha is Radically Better |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **Prompt Compressors** | **Microsoft LLMLingua** | Token-level perplexity dropping via small causal models. | **LLMLingua destroys syntax:** Deletes closing brackets `}`, corrupts tables/JSON, and drops words like *"not"*. <br>👉 **Rekha preserves syntax:** Micro-slicer protects Markdown tables, code blocks, and natural reading order. |
| **AI Guardrails** | **Nvidia NeMo / Guardrails AI** | Uses Colang rules or calls secondary LLMs to check safety. | **Too slow & expensive:** Calling a second LLM adds 2–4 seconds of latency and doubles API bills. <br>👉 **Rekha blocks injections in 35ms** locally for $0.00 without generative lag. |
| **Document Rerankers** | **Cohere Rerank / BGE** | Reorders retrieved chunks by relevance score. | **Does not compress or verify:** If a top chunk has 1,000 tokens with only 1 useful sentence, you still pay for all 1,000 tokens. <br>👉 **Rekha prunes the noise inside the chunks** and audits output facts before delivery. |
| **Evaluation / Grounding** | **Ragas / TruLens** | Calls GPT-4o ("LLM-as-a-judge") to grade answers against context. | **Unusable on live user traffic:** Taking 3 seconds to verify an answer kills live chat UX. <br>👉 **Rekha verifies negative constraints & numbers in ~70ms** before streaming. |
| **Semantic Caches** | **Redis LangCache / GPTCache** | Cosine distance thresholds over 1536d vector embeddings. | **Threshold Drift:** Small distance differences cause "How do I cancel?" to falsely match "How do I upgrade?". <br>👉 **Rekha uses discrete Canonical Intent Clustering**, yielding 99%+ deterministic confidence matches. |

### B. vs. INDIRECT COMPETITORS (Infrastructure We Supercharge)

* **Vector Databases (Pinecone, Chroma, Qdrant):** We are not a database. Vector DBs find documents; Rekha cleans the retrieved documents, stops injection attacks, and verifies output claims.
* **Orchestrators (LangChain, LlamaIndex):** LangChain is the plumbing; Rekha is the **Security & Quality Guard** that plugs into LangChain via a single decorator or callback.
* **AI Gateways (Portkey, Helicone, LiteLLM):** Gateways are network proxy routers for load-balancing and key rotation. Rekha provides in-memory deep semantic boundary intelligence.

---

## 🧪 Real-World Benchmark on a 361-Page PDF Book
*Source: "The End of Molasses Classes" by Ron Clark (Founder of the Ron Clark Academy)*

```powershell
python demo/test_pdf_book.py
```

| Scenario & Target Content | Query Tested | Traditional RAG (No Rekha) | Rekha-Augmented RAG | Token Savings | Rekha Grounding & Security |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :---: | :--- |
| **1. Text Philosophy & Grading** *(Pages 33–36)* | *"Why does Ron Clark give grades of 14, 20, 42 and what is 'Not every child deserves a cookie'?"* | 1,148 tokens dumped into prompt. No guard. | 527 tokens. Micro-slices conversational filler, retains exact quotes. | **54% PRUNED** | **5/5 Grounding Score** (`STREAM_TO_USER`) |
| **2. Structured Schedule / Rule** *(Pages 198–201)* | *"What are the timing hours for Rule 39 regarding parent Open House day?"* | 923 tokens. Susceptible to hallucinated hours. | 433 tokens. Preserves exact 8:00 AM–4:00 PM full-day schedule. | **53% PRUNED** | **5/5 Grounding Score** (`STREAM_TO_USER`) |
| **3. Image / Photo Context** *(Pages 116–118)* | *"Describe the photo on page 117: why was Ron Clark in a limousine with students?"* | 897 tokens. Narrative clutter. | 438 tokens. Preserves visual anchor and reading reward context. | **51% PRUNED** | **5/5 Grounding Score** (`STREAM_TO_USER`) |
| **4. Canonical FAQ Cache Bypass** *(Pages 12–14)* | *"What does the phrase 'Molasses Classes' mean and why is the book called that?"* | 1,082 tokens. Paid full LLM API bill. | Served directly from Inbound Cache Gate in **35ms**. | **100% SAVED ($0.00)** | Verified Canonical Answer |

---

## 📂 Repository Structure

```
D:\Mine Labs\Rekha/
├── rekha/                     # Core Python Package (Apache-2.0)
│   ├── __init__.py            # Package entrypoint & public exports
│   ├── gateway.py             # RekhaGateway orchestrator & @protect decorator
│   ├── guard.py               # Layer 1: Inbound Guard Gate (Injection, PII, Toxicity)
│   ├── cache.py               # Layer 2: Inbound Cache Gate (Canonical Clustering)
│   ├── router.py              # Layer 3: Query Router (Bypass / Tool / Vector)
│   ├── optimizer.py           # Layer 4: Context Optimizer (Micro-slice & budget pack)
│   ├── verifier.py            # Layer 5: Outbound Grounding & Verification Gate
│   └── types.py               # Pydantic v2 data models & decision contracts
│
├── demo/                      # Working Reference Application & Benchmarks
│   ├── sample_docs/           # Sample PDF & Markdown policies
│   ├── rag_engine.py          # Working retrieval engine
│   ├── app.py                 # Live 4-scenario comparison benchmark
│   └── test_pdf_book.py       # Live PDF multi-modal & text benchmark
│
├── tests/                     # 25-Stage Automated Enterprise Test Suite (pytest)
├── Architecture.md            # In-depth technical specification
├── Plan.md                    # Fully open-source strategy & competitor teardown
├── BENCHMARK_REPORT.md        # Comprehensive Senior Architect evaluation report
├── pyproject.toml             # Build & packaging metadata (Apache-2.0)
└── README.md                  # Project documentation
```

---

## 📜 License
Apache-2.0 License. Free for personal, commercial, and enterprise production deployments with zero restrictions.
