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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.