Studio / Area

Composition & Runtime

Assemble components and operate the flow of work between them.

How are components assembled, invoked, coordinated, and operated?

In scope

  • Serving, orchestration, routing, interfaces, queues, schedules, and deployment

Boundary

Start with the outcome

Functions

Function

Coordinate workflow

Run related tasks with explicit ordering, state, and operational handling.

Function

Rule evaluation

Match input facts against declared rule conditions and execute applicable outcomes.

Function

Drools

Rule engine for evaluating declared business rules against facts.

Function

Prefect

Workflow orchestration software for building and operating task flows.

Function

Apply explicit rules

Evaluate stated conditions against facts to produce a defined decision or action.

Function

Invoke an external tool

Call a declared tool through an application-controlled interface and handle its result.

Function

Model serving

Run a deployed model behind an API that applications can call.

Function

vLLM

Inference engine with an HTTP server for supported model capabilities.

Function

Adapt a model

Adjust a pretrained model for a new task or domain using additional training.

Function

Local model serving

Run a model on a user-controlled machine and expose a local inference endpoint.

Function

Ollama local runtime

Locally installed Ollama runtime for downloading and serving supported models.

Function

Hugging Face PEFT

Python library for parameter-efficient model adaptation, including LoRA.

Representative paths

Methods and options

implementation

Prefect

Workflow orchestration software for building and operating task flows.

approach

Rule evaluation

Match input facts against declared rule conditions and execute applicable outcomes.

implementation

Drools

Rule engine for evaluating declared business rules against facts.

approach

Model serving

Run a deployed model behind an API that applications can call.

implementation

vLLM

Inference engine with an HTTP server for supported model capabilities.

approach

Local model serving

Run a model on a user-controlled machine and expose a local inference endpoint.

implementation

Ollama local runtime

Locally installed Ollama runtime for downloading and serving supported models.

implementation

Hugging Face PEFT

Python library for parameter-efficient model adaptation, including LoRA.

Across the Studio

Governance connection

Runtime records distinguish what a system can execute from who is allowed to authorize it.

Related records

Sources

  1. AI Studio methodologyCameron Smith · checked 2026-09-29

Last reviewed 2026-09-29