R6 — The Intelligent Router Under Pressure
Northstar runs four inference options at once: on-device, an organization small and large deployment, a Cybrary fallback and a deterministic engine. Your job is the routing policy — and then a provider degrades and the budget threshold trips while the exercise is live.
OPS-903 — 'provider degradation, budget at 80%, routing policy under review'
AI operations engineer
Security architect
80 minutes · advanced
Execution trace
00:00:00policyrouter
attack step
Untyped jobs distributed by latency alone
An authoritative inject is served from a browser runtime.
job=inject · runtime=chrome-builtin
00:15:00policyrouter
attack step
Restricted evidence sent to the public fallback
The org deployment was slow, so the fallback took it.
class=restricted · runtime=fallback
00:30:00enterpriseprovider health
attack step
Large deployment p95 latency rises to 14s
No breaker configured; queued jobs stall the exercise clock.
00:50:00alertcost monitor
Budget reaches 80% with 40 minutes of scenario left
Something has to degrade — the question is what.