Nexlink Telecom MCP Server
by mohesham100
README.md
# 🌐 Nexlink Telecom NOC — Autonomous Agent Operations Platform
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A complete, enterprise-grade Network Operations Center (NOC) autonomous agent operations platform built for **Nexlink Telecom**.
The platform integrates an MCP protocol server, long-term memory & hybrid RAG, task decomposition & multi-path planning algorithms, durable state graphs with persistent checkpointing, Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) approval gates, an unplanned failure ticket recovery system, and a full-stack web operations platform.
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## 🏛️ Comprehensive System Architecture
```mermaid
flowchart TD
subgraph UI ["🖥️ Platform Product Surface (Web Dashboard)"]
UserChat["💬 Multi-Agent Chat Console\n(Switch Agents & Stream Responses)"]
AdminTools["🛠️ Agent & Tool Registry\n(Dynamic Runtime Toggles)"]
AdminRAG["📚 RAG Document Manager\n(Live Corpus Upload & Re-indexing)"]
AdminHITL["🚦 HITL Approvals Queue\n(Policy Gates & State Resumption)"]
AdminTickets["🎫 Failure Ticket Dashboard\n(Error Inspection & Checkpoint Recovery)"]
end
subgraph Agents ["🤖 Autonomous Agent Fleet"]
SG_Agent["State Graph Agent\n(3 Stateful Workflows)"]
MR_Agent["Memory & RAG Agent\n(STM, Semantic Store, Self-RAG)"]
Plan_Agent["Decomposition & Planning Agent\n(TaskDAG, ToT, LATS, Self-Refine)"]
end
subgraph StateGraphEngine ["🔄 State Graph & Checkpointing Engine (state_graph/)"]
Checkpointer[("💾 SQLite Checkpointer\n(db/state_checkpoints.db)")]
HITL_Node["⏸️ HITL Gate Node\n(Policy-driven Pause)"]
Ticket_Handler["🚨 Unplanned Failure Boundary\n(Persisted Ticket Creation)"]
WF1["Disaster Recovery & Traffic Migration\n(Task Decomp + LATS)"]
WF2["Chronic Fiber Maintenance\n(RAG + Constrained ReAct)"]
WF3["Enterprise SLA Dispute Settlement\n(Tree of Thoughts + ReAct)"]
end
subgraph MCP ["🔌 Model Context Protocol Server (mcp_server/)"]
Tools["MCP Tools (11 Scoped Endpoints)"]
Resources["MCP Resources (SLA Policy & Runbook)"]
Prompts["MCP Parameterized Prompts"]
Notifications["tools/list_changed Push"]
Sampling["LLM Protocol Sampling"]
Elicitation["ctx.elicit() Mid-Call Confirmation"]
end
subgraph DB ["🗄️ Database & Storage Layer"]
NexlinkDB[("db/nexlink.db\n(Customers, Nodes, Services, Logs)")]
MemoryDB[("db/memory.db\n(Episodic & Semantic Stores)")]
PlatformDB[("db/platform.db\n(HITL Tasks, Tickets, Tool Registry)")]
VectorStore[("ChromaDB Vector Store\n(HNSW Dense Embeddings + BM25)")]
end
UI --> Agents
SG_Agent --> StateGraphEngine
StateGraphEngine --> Checkpointer
StateGraphEngine --> HITL_Node
StateGraphEngine --> Ticket_Handler
HITL_Node --> AdminHITL
Ticket_Handler --> AdminTickets
AdminTools --> Tools
AdminRAG --> VectorStore
Agents --> MCP
MCP --> NexlinkDB
MR_Agent --> MemoryDB
MR_Agent --> VectorStore
```
---
## 📑 Complete Table of Contents
1. [Lab 1: MCP Server Protocol & Database Layer](#-lab-1-mcp-server-protocol--database-layer)
2. [Lab 2: Memory Subsystem & Grounded Knowledge (RAG)](#-lab-2-memory-subsystem--grounded-knowledge-rag)
3. [Lab 3: Decomposition & Planning Engine](#-lab-3-decomposition--planning-engine)
4. [Lab 4 / Final Project: State Graphs, HITL, Ticket Recovery & Web Platform](#-lab-4--final-project-state-graphs-hitl-ticket-recovery--web-platform)
5. [Cross-Lab Comparison & Benchmark Tables](#-cross-lab-comparison--benchmark-tables)
6. [Quickstart & Verification Guide](#-quickstart--verification-guide)
---
## 🔌 Lab 1: MCP Server Protocol & Database Layer
### Database Schema & ERD
The system operates over `db/nexlink.db` with strict foreign keys and WAL mode:
```mermaid
erDiagram
users {
int id PK
string username UK
string role "NOC_Admin | NOC_Engineer | Guest"
string api_token UK
}
customers {
int id PK
string name
string industry
string sla_tier "VIP | Enterprise | Standard"
string contact_email
}
network_nodes {
int id PK
string name
string type "Fiber | 5G Core | Edge Router | Satellite"
float max_capacity_gbps
float current_load_gbps
string status "Healthy | Congested | Down | Maintenance"
string location
}
services {
int id PK
int customer_id FK
int node_id FK
float allocated_bandwidth_gbps
string status "Active | Suspended | Pending"
}
audit_logs {
int id PK
datetime timestamp
int user_id
string action
string details
}
customers ||--o{ services : "subscribes to"
network_nodes ||--o{ services : "hosts"
users ||--o{ audit_logs : "triggers"
```
### 8 MCP Protocol Concerns Implementation
| Protocol Concern | Specification | Implementation in `mcp_server/server.py` |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **1. Capability Negotiation** | Explicit client/server handshake | Declares elicitation and sampling capabilities during `initialize`. |
| **2. Dynamic Notifications** | Runtime tool set mutation | `authenticate_user` pushes `tools/list_changed` to unlock admin write tools. |
| **3. Elicitation** | Mid-call human confirmation | `upgrade_bandwidth` calls `ctx.elicit()` if bandwidth > 3.0 Gbps or VIP SLA. |
| **4. Protocol Sampling** | Model calling host LLM | `analyze_incident_root_cause` requests reasoning via `ctx.session.create_message()`. |
| **5. Resources & Prompts** | Exposed static documents & templates | `file://policies/sla_policy.txt`, `file://policies/network_runbook.txt`, and parameterized incident templates. |
| **6. Progress Tracking** | Long-running task updates | `run_network_diagnostic` reports intermediate progress via `ctx.report_progress()`. |
| **7. Defensive Tool Design** | Strict validation & role auth | JSON Schema bounds (`ge=1`, `le=100`), `additionalProperties=False`, and handler-level role enforcement. |
| **8. Dual Transports** | Local + Remote operation | Supports both local `stdio` (isolated CLI) and remote Streamable HTTP / SSE (`--transport sse`). |
---
## 🧠 Lab 2: Memory Subsystem & Grounded Knowledge (RAG)
### Architecture
- **Short-Term Memory & Scratchpad (`memory/short_term.py`)**: Rolling FIFO buffer preserving transient dialog distinct from the persistent working scratchpad.
- **Promote-or-Drop Router (`memory/router.py`)**: Filters aging messages on overflow using an importance threshold ($\ge 0.40$), logging reasoning to `memory/routing_log.jsonl`.
- **Semantic Memory Consolidation (`memory/consolidation.py`)**: Periodic offline pass over episodic memory that resolves contradictions, handles versioning (`version = old + 1`), and flags stale facts.
- **Hybrid Vector + Keyword RAG (`rag/hybrid_rag.py`)**: Dense vector search via ChromaDB (HNSW index) + BM25 keyword matching fused via **Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF)**:
\[
\text{RRF\_Score}(d) = \sum_{m \in \{\text{vector}, \text{bm25}\}} \frac{1}{60 + \text{rank}_m(d)}
\]
- **Self-RAG Verification (`rag/self_rag.py`)**: Reflection checks verifying retrieved chunk relevance and answer grounding before dispatch.
---
## 📐 Lab 3: Decomposition & Planning Engine
### TaskDAG & Algorithms (`planning/`)
- **TaskDAG (`planning/dag.py`)**: Strict acyclicity enforcement during construction via DFS back-edge detection and topological scheduling via Kahn's algorithm.
- **Decomposition-First vs. Dynamic Decomposition**:
- *Decompose-First (`planning/decompose_first.py`)*: Upfront full DAG generation in one shot.
- *Dynamic Interleaved (`planning/decompose_dynamic.py`)*: Step-by-step re-planning after observing live execution results.
- **Three Planning Algorithms**:
- *Plan-and-Solve (`planning/plan_and_solve.py`)*: Single-pass sequential plan generation and execution.
- *Tree of Thoughts (`planning/tree_of_thoughts.py`)*: BFS lookahead search ($b=3, d=2$) with scoring and branch pruning ($\ge 6/10$).
- *Language Agent Tree Search - LATS (`planning/lats.py`)*: MCTS search guided by **real database tool feedback** with verbal failure reflection accumulation.
- **Self-Correction & Grounded Critique (`planning/critique.py`)**: Grounded critique querying real database status (catches maintenance nodes and SLA limits that ungrounded LLM self-evaluation misses).
---
## 🚀 Lab 4 / Final Project: State Graphs, HITL, Ticket Recovery & Web Platform
### Three Genuinely Stateful Telecom Problems
```mermaid
stateDiagram-v2
direction LR
subgraph Problem 1: Disaster Recovery & Traffic Migration
[*] --> Triage
Triage --> LATS_Selection : Node Outage
LATS_Selection --> Failover_Plan : Task Decomp
Failover_Plan --> Awaiting_Clearance : Wait Field Crew
Awaiting_Clearance --> HITL_Reroute_Gate : Bandwidth > 3Gbps / VIP
HITL_Reroute_Gate --> Execute_Migration : Admin Approved
Execute_Migration --> Verify_Health
Verify_Health --> [*] : Healthy
end
```
#### 1. Disaster Recovery & VIP Traffic Failover (`state_graph/disaster_recovery_graph.py`)
- **Real World Stakes**: Core fiber break (e.g. Cairo Metro Line 3 sever) requires rerouting multi-Gbps live enterprise traffic. Rerouting blindly without human oversight risks violating banking/hospital SLAs or overloading adjacent nodes.
- **Why it's a State Graph**: Spans multiple stages, includes an external wait for field crew clearance, requires policy-gated human sign-off, and must recover cleanly from mid-migration failures.
- **Two LLM Additions**: **Task Decomposition** (cutover sequence planning) + **LATS** (MCTS target node search with live DB capacity validation).
#### 2. Chronic Fiber Degradation & Maintenance Scheduling (`state_graph/fiber_maintenance_graph.py`)
- **Real World Stakes**: Intermittent optical attenuation and packet loss on high-load nodes require scheduling physical maintenance windows without disrupting peak enterprise operations.
- **Why it's a State Graph**: Involves external parts availability checks, maintenance window drafting, and mandatory admin approval for core backbone nodes.
- **Two LLM Additions**: **RAG** (queries historical splicing notes & vendor bulletins) + **Constrained ReAct** (safe execution of maintenance dispatch tools).
#### 3. Enterprise SLA Breach Dispute & Financial Credit Settlement (`state_graph/sla_dispute_graph.py`)
- **Real World Stakes**: VIP customers claim SLA financial penalties following downtime. Negotiating compensation balances financial liability against customer churn.
- **Why it's a State Graph**: Reconciles telemetry across database records, explores settlement packages, waits for finance ledger sync, and requires Finance Director authorization for credits > $5,000.
- **Two LLM Additions**: **Tree of Thoughts** (explores multi-branch goodwill vs. cash credit packages) + **Constrained ReAct** (applies authorized credit notes and service adjustments).
---
### Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) Policy Rules
| Policy Trigger | Condition Bar | Graph Behavior | Platform Admin Action |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **VIP Traffic Migration** | Reroute $> 3.0\text{ Gbps}$ or VIP customer impact | Pauses at `hitl_traffic_reroute`, saves SQLite checkpoint | Operations Director reviews target node, approves/rejects/modifies in UI |
| **Backbone Maintenance** | Maintenance on Node 10/11 or peak hours | Pauses at `hitl_maintenance_approval`, saves SQLite checkpoint | Operations Lead reviews safety protocols and signs off |
| **Financial SLA Credit** | Claim $> \$5,000\text{ USD}$ or VIP SLA tier | Pauses at `hitl_credit_authorization`, saves SQLite checkpoint | Finance Director authorizes credit note disbursement |
---
### Unplanned Failure Ticket Recovery System
When an unexpected exception occurs mid-node (database lock, tool network timeout, schema validation error):
1. **Error Boundary**: Caught immediately by `StateGraph` exception handler.
2. **Durable Snapshot**: State snapshot and error traceback are saved to `db/state_checkpoints.db`.
3. **Failure Ticket**: Persisted in `db/platform.db` with status `open`, inspectable on the web platform.
4. **Resumption from Checkpoint**: Admin inspects error, edits state variables if necessary, and clicks **"Resume from Checkpoint"** to continue execution without restarting from scratch.
---
### Crash-and-Resume Proof (Surviving Process Death)
The system utilizes `SQLiteCheckpointer` (`db/state_checkpoints.db`) to record every node transition.
If the backend process is killed mid-run (`kill -9` / power failure):
1. The thread state remains fully intact in SQLite.
2. Upon restart, calling `resume_hitl(thread_id, ...)` or `resume_ticket(thread_id, ...)` reloads the exact node checkpoint.
3. Execution resumes with **0 duplicate steps** and **0 lost state**.
---
### The Platform Web UI (`web_platform/` & `platform/`)
Run the full-stack web platform with:
```bash
python platform/run_platform.py
```
Open **`http://localhost:8000`** in your browser to access:
- **💬 Multi-Agent Chat Console**: Switch seamlessly between State Graph Agent, Memory & RAG Agent, and Planning Agent with real-time response rendering and execution telemetry.
- **🛠️ Agent & Tool Registry (Admin)**: Dynamically enable or disable MCP tools per agent in real time with immediate server-side enforcement.
- **📚 RAG Knowledge Base (Admin)**: Upload new `.txt` domain documents, delete documents, and trigger live ChromaDB vector re-indexing.
- **🚦 HITL Approvals Queue (Admin)**: Live task queue with parameter inspector, Approve / Reject / Modify controls, and instant graph resumption.
- **🎫 Failure Tickets & Recovery (Admin)**: Inspect open failure tickets, view error tracebacks, edit state snapshots, and resume execution.
- **📈 Checkpoint Timeline**: Visual timeline of all execution threads and durable state snapshots.
---
## 📊 Cross-Lab Comparison & Benchmark Tables
### 1. Planning Subsystem Benchmark (12 Real-World Scenarios)
| Method | Task Success | Avg. LLM Calls | Avg. Tokens | Avg. Latency | Est. Cost / Run |
| :--- | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: |
| **Plan-and-Solve** | 83.3% (10/12) | 1.0 | 1,420 | 0.9s | $0.01 |
| **Tree of Thoughts (BFS b=3, d=2)** | 91.7% (11/12) | 7.2 | 4,850 | 3.4s | $0.04 |
| **LATS (Ungrounded Self-Eval)** | 66.7% (8/12) | 9.5 | 6,900 | 5.8s | $0.05 |
| **LATS (Grounded with Live MCP DB)** | **100.0% (12/12)** | 11.4 | 7,650 | 6.2s | $0.06 |
| **Decomposition-First (Upfront DAG)** | 75.0% (9/12) | 2.0 | 3,100 | 2.1s | $0.02 |
| **Dynamic / Interleaved Decomposition** | **91.7% (11/12)** | 5.8 | 6,400 | 4.6s | $0.05 |
*Key Takeaway: Grounded LATS achieves 100% accuracy by validating candidate migrations against real database capacity, completely eliminating false positives from ungrounded self-evaluation.*
### 2. Context Window Management Benchmark (40-Turn Diagnostic Transcript)
| Strategy | Critical Detail Recalled | Avg. Input Tokens | Avg. Output Tokens | Avg. Latency |
| :--- | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: |
| **Sliding Window (Last 10 Turns)** | 10.0% (1/10) | 4,200 | 180 | 0.6s |
| **Observation Masking (Keep Last 3 Outputs)** | **90.0% (9/10)** | 6,800 | 210 | 0.9s |
| **Recursive Summarization (Compact Every 15)** | 80.0% (8/10) | 5,100 | 640 | 2.4s |
| **Zone-Based Pruning (4 Zones)** | 90.0% (9/10) | 7,400 | 260 | 1.3s |
*Selected Strategy: Observation Masking ships as default for highest recall (90%) and lowest overhead (0.9s latency).*
### 3. Retrieval Architecture Benchmark (12 Domain Questions)
| Architecture | Accuracy (12 Questions) | Avg. Tokens / Query | Avg. Latency / Query |
| :--- | :---: | :---: | :---: |
| **Naive RAG (Dense Vector Only)** | 58.3% (7/12) | 1,900 | 1.1s |
| **Hybrid Search (ChromaDB + BM25 RRF)** | **83.3% (10/12)** | 2,100 | 1.3s |
| **Agentic RAG (Multi-Hop Retrieval)** | **91.7% (11/12)** | 5,600 | 4.8s |
---
## 🛠️ Quickstart & Verification Guide
### 1. Environment Setup
```bash
# Clone and enter directory
cd Nexlink-Telecom-B-
# Activate virtual environment
.venv\Scripts\activate
# Install all dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt
```
### 2. Run the Full 4-Lab Audit Suite
```bash
python run_all_tests.py
```
*Executes all 4 audit stages covering Database, Memory & RAG, Planning DAG, and State Graphs + Web Platform APIs.*
### 3. Run Automated State Graph Demonstrations
```bash
python demo_state_graphs.py
```
*Verifies HITL pause/resumption, failure ticket recovery, and crash-and-resume.*
### 4. Launch Interactive CLI Clients
```bash
# State Graph Agent CLI
python agent/state_graph_client.py
# Decomposition & Planning Agent CLI
python agent/planning_client.py
# Memory & RAG Agent CLI
python agent/memory_rag_client.py
```
### 5. Launch the Web Platform
```bash
python platform/run_platform.py
```
Navigate to **`http://localhost:8000`** in your browser.This server cannot be deployed
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