Architecture Review Board

Multi-agent design review with structural engineering, cost estimation, and sustainability consulting — orchestrator skills and rag_augmented memory across design iterations.

What this demonstrates

Three GenericAgent instances forming a virtual design review board: structural engineering, cost estimation, and sustainability consulting. Cross-agent orchestrator skills run sequential pipelines with each agent seeing prior output. Backed by rag_augmented memory with a lower similarity threshold (0.45) to catch terminology variants across disciplines.

Feature	How It's Used
rag_augmented memory	Design decisions and material comparisons retrieved from Qdrant
Orchestrator skills	`full_design_review` (structural → cost → sustainability), `material_selection`
Lower similarity threshold	0.45 catches "CLT" ↔ "cross-laminated timber" ↔ "mass timber" variants
Structured JSON entities	Materials, jurisdictions, certifications tracked with deduplication
Per-agent prompts	Domain-specific `summary_compression_*` for engineering, cost, and sustainability

Run it

ORCHID_CONFIG=examples/architecture-review/orchid.yml uvicorn orchid_api.main:app
orchid chat interactive --config examples/architecture-review/orchid.yml
orchid config validate examples/architecture-review/agents.yaml

Agents and tools

Agent	Tools	Expertise
`structural`	analyze, code compliance, compare materials, fire strategy	Load paths, Eurocode/IBC/ASCE, fire safety
`cost`	construction estimate, lifecycle costs, market rates	Budgets, LCC, regional labour/materials
`sustainability`	certification, embodied carbon, strategies, carbon compare	BREEAM/LEED/DGNB, carbon accounting

Orchestrator skills

skills:
  full_design_review:     # structural → cost → sustainability
  material_selection:     # structural → sustainability

Memory config

supervisor:
  memory:
    strategy: "rag_augmented"
    rag_k: 6
    rag_similarity_threshold: 0.45   # lower: catches terminology variants
    structured_output: true
    truncation_strategy: "middle"

Simulated flow

"Review a 6-story office in Berlin, 8000m², LEED Gold."
→ full_design_review skill fires
→ structural: steel + CLT recommended, Eurocode 3/5 compliant
→ cost: €22.4M, CLT 30% cheaper lifecycle vs steel-concrete
→ sustainability: LEED Gold achievable, 40% below baseline carbon

"Switch to all-timber instead."
→ material_selection skill fires
→ structural: CLT+glulam viable to 12m with fire encapsulation
→ sustainability: carbon-negative (-210 kgCO2/m³ net), BREEAM Outstanding possible
→ RAG retrieves past cost discussion from earlier design iteration

Files

examples/architecture-review/
├── README.md
├── orchid.yml
├── agents.yaml
└── tools/
    ├── structural.py       # 6 materials, 6 building codes
    ├── cost.py              # 3 building types, 5 regions
    └── sustainability.py    # 4 certifications, 7 strategies