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ADR-004 — Deployment-selected AI provider
- Status: Accepted
- Date: 2026-07-30
- Phase: 5 (AI improvements)
Context
The AI sidecar supports Ollama, Gemini, and Groq. Earlier documentation described a per-request provider abstraction with OpenAI, Claude, administrator controls, and user choice; none of those capabilities exist. Adding them now would increase credential handling, privacy exposure, testing, and billing complexity without demonstrated customer demand.
Decision
Each deployment selects exactly one provider through AI_PROVIDER. The .NET application continues to call the private ai-service through ISummarizerService; application code does not branch on provider. Ollama remains the local privacy-first option. Gemini and Groq are operator-selected cloud alternatives.
Provider choice is not exposed to users or administrators. Revisit this only when a customer requires provider choice and the deployment has explicit credential, privacy, quota, and audit rules for every enabled provider.
Consequences
- One provider configuration and failure mode per deployment.
- No OpenAI or Claude support is implied.
- AI results remain suggestions that require user review.
- Usage metering belongs at the application interaction boundary, independent of provider.
- Cloud-provider privacy and cost are deployment responsibilities until SaaS quotas are introduced.