Overview

In most AI chat applications, conversation behavior is built directly into the product.

AfferLab takes a different approach.

Instead of hardcoding AI behavior inside the application, AfferLab separates the system into:

• the platform, which provides infrastructure such as models, storage, and tools
• the strategy, which defines how the conversation behaves

This separation allows AfferLab to support many different AI chatflows without modifying the core application.

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What a Strategy Controls

A strategy defines how AfferLab interacts with the model during a conversation.

This includes decisions such as:

• how prompts are constructed
• which conversation history is included
• whether memory should be retrieved or stored
• and other conversation behaviors

Strategies allow different conversations to follow different logic while running on the same platform.