Enable Oregon Law Help RAG tool for family law queries#351
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Unfortunately, this "quickly enable Family Law" on staging got a little complicated.
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| Tenant First Aid is a chatbot application that provides legal information related to housing and eviction in Oregon. The system uses a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture to provide accurate, contextual responses based on Oregon housing law documents. The LangChain framework is used to abstract models and agents. | ||
| Tenant First Aid is a chatbot application that provides legal information related to housing, eviction, and family law in Oregon. The system uses a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture to provide accurate, contextual responses based on Oregon housing law documents. The LangChain framework is used to abstract models and agents. |
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We only want this change if the environment variable ENV == staging since we don't want to enable this behavior for TFA on prod.
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Just noticed that we have an inconsistency in how ENV is defined for GitHub environments (staging or prod) and how it is defined in the .env.example file (dev)
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Do we intend to set ENV VAR for VERTEX_AI_DATASTORE_OREGON_LAW_HELP in both Staging and Prod?
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uh, when it was just the tenant law pages in that datastore, it would have been for both staging and prod, but right now since it also has family law, it doesn't make sense to turn it on for Prod.
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Would it make sense to switch on the existence of VERTEX_AI_DATASTORE_OREGON_LAW_HELP for this feature as opposed to ENV == staging? That way, if this does eventually go to PROD, we would need only set VERTEX_AI_DATASTORE_OREGON_LAW_HELP for that environment, avoiding a code change.
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| - Only answer questions about housing law in Oregon; do not answer questions about other states or topics unrelated to housing law. | ||
| - Only answer questions about housing law or family law in Oregon; do not answer questions about other states or topics unrelated to these areas. |
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This part of the system prompt needs to be conditional on ENV
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Description
Activates the
retrieve_oregon_law_helpRAG tool backed by theoregon-law-help-search-2026Vertex AI datastore. The tool was previously defined but commented out of the registry. WhenVERTEX_AI_DATASTORE_OREGON_LAW_HELPis set, the agent will use it to answer family law questions (divorce, child custody, child support, domestic relations) alongside the existing housing law tool.Changes:
retrieve_oregon_law_helptool description to cover housing and family lawRAG_TOOL_REGISTRY(auto-activates via env var, no-op if unset).env.examplewith staging datastore ID referenceRelated Tickets & Documents
QA Instructions, Screenshots, Recordings
VERTEX_AI_DATASTORE_OREGON_LAW_HELP=oregon-law-help-search-2026_1775704132316inbackend/.envretrieve_oregon_law_helpappears in LangSmith tracesNote:
retrieve_city_state_lawsmay also fire on family law questions due to the city law trigger in the system prompt — known behavior.Added/updated tests?
test_get_active_rag_tools_returns_all_configured_datastoresDocumentation
Architecture.mdhas been updated[optional] Are there any post deployment tasks we need to perform?
Set
VERTEX_AI_DATASTORE_OREGON_LAW_HELPin staging environment.