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Knowledge Central — production AI platform for NA retail IT; KCOS is the product vehicle

Knowledge Central for EssilorLuxottica NA retail IT: governed chat and RAG, Open Terminal for safe execution, and KC-Wiki for agent-accessible knowledge with LDAP-backed publishing — one LiteLLM control plane, Traefik, and enterprise observability. KCOS is the product vehicle: an agentic SaaS substrate for a modular agent workspace, with an operator status board, linked into this platform rather than standing alone. Mid-2026 platform work — identity provider, LiteLLM gateway, virtualization station, and a unifying monorepo — attaches here instead of as one-offs.

Client

Luxottica

Completion

Ongoing

Category

Secure AI & Automation

Situation

Retail IT needed a unified internal platform for secure AI adoption, Azure operational visibility, privileged access, and agentic knowledge management—not a collection of disconnected pilots. Stakeholders required audit-friendly guardrails, cost controls, and integration across chat, inventory MCP, wiki, and jump-server workflows.

Task

Design, integrate, and operate a production agentic platform where Lux GPT, Open Terminal, Azure inventory MCP, KC-Wiki automation, and security services share one LiteLLM control plane with observability and documented runbooks for store and corporate IT partners.

Action

  • Shipped Open Terminal inside Lux GPT: multi-user sandboxed engineering environments with Team Tools presets for safe operational workflows

  • Established LiteLLM as the shared AI control plane—model routing, guardrails, Skill Hub, enterprise OIDC SSO—for chat, wiki automation, and MCP tools

  • Built KC-Wiki as an agentic knowledge layer: LDAP-authenticated MediaWiki, automated document ingest with LiteLLM guardrails, and human review before publish

  • Exposed wiki content to agents via MediaWiki MCP so Lux GPT can ground answers and write back governed updates—not just retrieve static docs

  • Integrated MCP tooling for live operations: ephemeral-token Azure inventory and programmatic privileged access

  • Unified production services on Traefik-routed Podman with Grafana KPI dashboards, self-hosted Sentry-compatible error tracking, GitLab CI, and documented runbooks

  • Folded mid-2026 platform work into the same control plane: Keycloak identity for Knowledge Central, LiteLLM gateway, virtualization station, and a monorepo that keeps those services reviewable together

  • Productized the agent workspace as KCOS — modular SaaS substrate plus operator status board — so new workspace capability ships as part of Knowledge Central, not a side stack

  • Partnered with retail IT, audit, and security stakeholders to consolidate disconnected pilots into one internal platform

Results

  • Closed the agentic loop: operators chat, query live infrastructure, execute in Open Terminal, and publish durable knowledge to KC-Wiki with review controls

  • Delivered an integrated enterprise AI and ops platform replacing fragmented AI/inventory/wiki pilots with one production stack

  • Enabled stakeholder-facing secure AI with guardrails, cost tracking, Skill Hub adoption, and live Azure MCP context without persistent sensitive storage

  • Improved audit and operational readiness through provisioned Grafana dashboards, runbooks, and GitLab-managed IaC

Technologies Used

LiteLLMOpen WebUIModel Context Protocol (MCP)TraefikPodmanMediaWikin8NPythonTypeScriptPrometheusGrafanaKeycloakPostgreSQLApache GuacamoleMicrosoft AzureGitLab CI

Security Skills Applied

AI Security & AlignmentPrivileged Access Management (PAM)Audit LoggingLDAPEphemeral Data HandlingContainer SecurityObservability

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Ilya Sulakov
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