2 posts tagged with "knowledge-graph"

In a single development session, we shipped three phases of a cognitive architecture that transforms Abby from a stateless RAG chatbot into a persistent, intelligent, context-aware research assistant. She now remembers who you are, routes complex questions to a more powerful brain, traverses clinical concept hierarchies, and warns you when your data has gaps. This post tells the complete story — the problems we solved, the architecture we built, and the engineering decisions behind 188 passing tests across 60+ new files.

Abby now understands that metformin is a drug used for Type 2 diabetes mellitus, which is a subtype of diabetes mellitus. She traverses OMOP concept hierarchies, finds siblings and related concepts, and warns researchers when they're building on sparse data. Phase 3 turns keyword matching into relational understanding.