Implement concierge food recommendation pipeline

public/embed/concierge-widget.js

@@ -124,6 +124,11 @@
         try { localStorage.setItem(storageKey, sessionId); } catch {}
       }
       addMessage('assistant', (res.json.data && res.json.data.reply) ? res.json.data.reply : '…');
+      // Log detected intent to browser console when backend returns it
+      if (res.json.data && res.json.data.intent) {
+        // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
+        console.info('[EventBuzz Concierge] detected intent:', res.json.data.intent);
+      }
     }).catch(function (e) {
       sendBtn.disabled = false;
       setError(e && e.message ? e.message : 'Network error');

src/controllers/publicConcierge.controller.js

@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ const ConciergeBot = require('../models/ConciergeBot');
 const Event = require('../models/Event');
 const WebChatSession = require('../models/WebChatSession');
 const { success, error } = require('../utils/response');
-const { executeConciergeRag } = require('../services/conciergeRag.service');
+const { runConciergePipeline } = require('../services/conciergePipeline.service');
+
 
 const MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH = 800;
 const MAX_HISTORY_MESSAGES = 40;
@@ -99,36 +100,63 @@ const chat = async (request, h) => {
   const includeEventDetails = bot.knowledge?.includeEventDetails !== false;
   const includeFoodRecommendations = bot.knowledge?.includeFoodRecommendations !== false;
 
-  const ragResult = await executeConciergeRag(String(bot.event), msg, event?.name || 'Event', {
+  const { determineIntentCategory } = require('../utils/conciergeIntent');
-      includeEventDetails,
+
-      includeFoodRecommendations,
+  const last6ForIntent = session.history.slice(-6).map((m) => ({
-      history: historyForPrompt,
+    role: m.role,
+    text: m.text,
+  }));
+
+  const intentResult = await determineIntentCategory(last6ForIntent);
+  const intentCategory = intentResult?.category || 'unrecognized';
+
+  if (intentResult?.databaseSearchNeeded) {
+    console.log('[concierge] database search needed for intent:', intentCategory);
+  }
+
+  // Web console / backend terminal debugging: show intent classification for each inbound chat message.
+  console.log('[concierge][intent]', {
+    botId: String(bot._id),
+    sessionId,
+    message: msg,
+    intent: intentCategory,
+    databaseSearchNeeded: Boolean(intentResult?.databaseSearchNeeded),
   });
-  const answerText =
+
-    ragResult?.text ||
+
-    "I don't have that in my knowledge base yet. Please check with event staff or try another question.";
+  const pipelineResult = await runConciergePipeline({
+    eventId: String(bot.event),
+    eventName: event?.name || 'Event',
+    bot,
+    sessionHistory: session.history.map((m) => ({ role: m.role, text: m.text })),
+  });
+
+  const answerText = pipelineResult?.text || "I don't have that in my knowledge base yet. Please check with event staff or try another question.";
+
 
   const reply = String(answerText || '').trim().slice(0, 1200);
-  const inTok = ragResult?.usage?.inputTokens || 0;
+  const inTok = pipelineResult?.usage?.inputTokens || 0;
-  const outTok = ragResult?.usage?.outputTokens || 0;
+  const outTok = pipelineResult?.usage?.outputTokens || 0;
   session.inputTokensTotal = Number(session.inputTokensTotal || 0) + Number(inTok || 0);
   session.outputTokensTotal = Number(session.outputTokensTotal || 0) + Number(outTok || 0);
   session.history.push({
     role: 'assistant',
     text: reply,
     ts: new Date(),
-    modelId: ragResult?.modelId || null,
+    modelId: pipelineResult?.modelId || null,
     inputTokens: inTok,
     outputTokens: outTok,
   });
+
   if (session.history.length > MAX_HISTORY_MESSAGES) {
     session.history = session.history.slice(-MAX_HISTORY_MESSAGES);
   }
   await session.save();
 
-  return h.response(success({ sessionId, reply, usage: ragResult?.usage || null }));
+  return h.response(success({ sessionId, reply, usage: pipelineResult?.usage || null, intent: intentCategory }));
 };
 
+
 module.exports = {
   config,
   chat,

src/services/conciergePipeline.service.js

@@ -0,0 +1,278 @@
+const { executeConciergeRag } = require('./conciergeRag.service');
+const { determineIntentCategory } = require('../utils/conciergeIntent');
+const { getFoodRecommendations } = require('./foodRecommendationService');
+const { fetchFoodRecordForEvent } = require('./foodDb.service');
+
+/**
+ * Pipeline: classify intent -> fetch data -> generate response via LLM.
+ *
+ * Intent categories:
+ * - Event Information
+ * - Personal Information
+ * - Food
+ * - Places
+ * - unrecognized
+ */
+
+async function runConciergePipeline({ eventId, eventName, bot, sessionHistory }) {
+  const historyForIntent = Array.isArray(sessionHistory) ? sessionHistory.slice(-10) : [];
+
+  // IMPORTANT: Always use the latest user message in the current request.
+  const userQuestion = historyForIntent.slice(-1)?.[0]?.text || '';
+
+  const intentResult = await determineIntentCategory(
+    historyForIntent.map((m) => ({ role: m.role, text: m.text })),
+  );
+
+  const intentCategory = intentResult?.category || 'unrecognized';
+
+  const includeFoodRecommendations = bot?.knowledge?.includeFoodRecommendations !== false;
+  const historyForRag = Array.isArray(sessionHistory)
+    ? sessionHistory.slice(-12).map((m) => ({ role: m.role, text: m.text }))
+    : [];
+
+  // 1) Fetch data for the intent (Food uses external DB, others are blank for now)
+  let dataBlock = '';
+
+  if (intentCategory === 'Food') {
+    const existing = await fetchFoodRecordForEvent(eventId);
+
+    const isExpired =
+      existing?.generatedAt &&
+      Date.now() - new Date(existing.generatedAt).getTime() > 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
+
+    if (existing?.recommendations && !isExpired) {
+      dataBlock = `Food knowledge (ground truth / fetched):\n${existing.recommendations}`;
+
+      // Add structured restaurant/place records (names + cuisines + review snippets)
+      // so the matching logic can reference persisted dataset entries directly.
+      if (Array.isArray(existing.restaurants) && existing.restaurants.length) {
+        const placesBlock = existing.restaurants
+          .map((p, i) => {
+            const cuisines = Array.isArray(p.cuisines)
+              ? p.cuisines.join(', ')
+              : p.cuisines || '';
+            const topReviews = Array.isArray(p.reviews) ? p.reviews.slice(0, 2) : [];
+
+            const reviewsText = topReviews
+              .map((r) => `- ${r.author_name} (${r.rating || 'N/A'}): ${r.summary || r.text || ''}`)
+              .join('\n');
+
+            return `\n${i + 1}) ${p.name}\n   Cuisines: ${cuisines || 'N/A'}\n   Rating: ${p.rating || 'N/A'} (${p.user_ratings_total || 0} reviews)\n   Address: ${p.address || 'N/A'}\n   Reviews (up to 2):\n${reviewsText || '- N/A'}\n`;
+          })
+          .join('');
+
+        dataBlock += `\n\nFood places records (use ONLY these names when recommending):\n${placesBlock}`;
+      }
+    } else {
+      // Best-effort location string; foodRecommendationService will geocode & persist.
+      const location = bot?.eventLocation || bot?.location || '';
+      const foodText = location
+        ? await getFoodRecommendations(location, eventId)
+        : await getFoodRecommendations('', eventId);
+      dataBlock = `Food knowledge (ground truth / fetched):\n${foodText}`;
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 2) Generate response
+  if (intentCategory === 'Food') {
+    const questionLower = String(userQuestion || '').toLowerCase();
+
+    // Minimal dish-key extraction for deterministic matching.
+    // This is intentionally conservative: only match dishes we can reliably ground from DB context.
+    // For broad queries like "South Indian breakfast", we map to common dish keywords.
+    const dishKeys = [];
+
+    const pushUnique = (k) => {
+      if (!k) return;
+      if (!dishKeys.includes(k)) dishKeys.push(k);
+    };
+
+    // Misal
+    if (questionLower.includes('misal')) pushUnique('misal');
+
+    // Pav bhaji / bhaji
+    if (questionLower.includes('pav bhaji') || questionLower.includes('bhaji')) pushUnique('pav bhaji');
+
+    // Biryani
+    if (questionLower.includes('biryani')) pushUnique('biryani');
+
+    // South Indian breakfast / common South Indian dishes
+    if (questionLower.includes('idli')) pushUnique('idli');
+    if (questionLower.includes('dosa')) pushUnique('dosa');
+    if (questionLower.includes('vada') || questionLower.includes('vada pav')) pushUnique('vada');
+    if (questionLower.includes('vada pav')) pushUnique('vada pav');
+    if (questionLower.includes('uttapam')) pushUnique('uttapam');
+    if (questionLower.includes('sambar')) pushUnique('sambar');
+    if (questionLower.includes('chutney')) pushUnique('chutney');
+    if (questionLower.includes('upma')) pushUnique('upma');
+    if (questionLower.includes('pongal')) pushUnique('pongal');
+
+    // If explicitly asked for South Indian breakfast but no specific dish keywords are present,
+    // still attempt a deterministic search using a small set of very common keywords.
+    if (dishKeys.length === 0 && /south\s*indian/.test(questionLower)) {
+      ['idli', 'dosa', 'vada', 'uttapam', 'sambar'].forEach(pushUnique);
+    }
+
+    const dishKey = dishKeys.length === 1 ? dishKeys[0] : null;
+
+    // Deterministic dish->place+review matching using the persisted DB-context text.
+    // IMPORTANT: Create human-like review bullets by removing the reviewer name.
+    // Example input stored format:
+    // "- Questraveler Questraveler (4): Perfect place ..."
+    // Output bullet should be:
+    // "- (4): Perfect place ..."
+    if (dishKey) {
+      const matches = [];
+
+      const blockStart = String(dataBlock || '').indexOf('Food places records');
+      if (blockStart !== -1) {
+        const placesSection = String(dataBlock || '').slice(blockStart);
+        const placeChunks = placesSection.split(/\n\s*\d+\)\s+/).slice(1);
+
+        const dishRegex = new RegExp(
+          `\\b${dishKey.replace(/[-/\\^$*+?.()|[\\]{}]/g, '\\$&')}\\b`,
+          'i',
+        );
+
+        for (const chunk of placeChunks) {
+          const chunkText = String(chunk || '');
+          const nameLine = chunkText.split('\n')[0] || '';
+          const placeName = nameLine.trim();
+          if (!placeName) continue;
+
+          if (dishRegex.test(chunkText)) {
+            const reviewLines = chunkText
+              .split('\n')
+              .filter((l) => dishRegex.test(l))
+              .slice(0, 2);
+
+            matches.push({ placeName, reviewSnippets: reviewLines });
+          }
+        }
+      }
+
+      if (matches.length) {
+        const parts = matches.map((m) => {
+          const reviews = !m.reviewSnippets.length
+            ? '- (review snippet not available)'
+            : m.reviewSnippets
+                .map((s) => String(s || '').trim())
+                .filter(Boolean)
+                .map((line) => {
+                  // strip leading "- <author> (<rating>): "
+                  // keep "- (<rating>): <text>" or similar.
+                  // Works for common patterns: "- Name (4): text"
+                  const cleaned = line
+                    .replace(/^[-\s]*[^:]+\(([^)]*)\):\s*/g, '($1): ')
+                    .replace(/^[-\s]*[^:]+:\s*/g, '');
+
+                  // Ensure bullet format
+                  return `- ${cleaned.replace(/^[-\s]*/, '').trim()}`;
+                })
+                .join('\n');
+
+          return `• ${m.placeName}\n${reviews}`;
+        });
+
+        return {
+          intent: intentCategory,
+          text: `🍽 Best match for ${userQuestion.trim()}\n\n${parts.join('\n\n')}`,
+          usage: null,
+          modelId: null,
+        };
+      }
+    }
+
+    // If dish-specific matching didn’t find anything, fall back to LLM using only context.
+    // (LLM fallback prompt should avoid refusal phrasing.)
+    const responseModelId = 'meta.llama3-8b-instruct-v1:0';
+
+    const { createBedrockClient, getBedrockConfig } = require('../utils/bedrockClient');
+    const { converse, responseText } = require('../utils/bedrockConverse');
+
+    const { region } = getBedrockConfig();
+    const client = createBedrockClient(region);
+
+    const foodSystemPrompt = `You are a food concierge for an event assistant.
+
+You will be given a food recommendations context.
+Your job is to answer the CURRENT USER QUESTION using ONLY information from the context.
+
+GROUNDING RULES (MUST FOLLOW):
+1) Do NOT invent restaurants, dishes, or addresses.
+2) Only recommend dishes/foods or restaurants that appear in the provided context.
+
+If the exact dish/restaurant requested is NOT clearly present in the context, do NOT say a refusal sentence. Instead:
+- Suggest the closest dishes/foods that ARE present in the provided context.
+- If you can't find any relevant dish from the context, say you don't have relevant recommendations from the provided list.
+
+Return ONLY plain text (no JSON).`;
+
+    const userText = `CURRENT USER QUESTION:\n${userQuestion}\n\nFOOD RECOMMENDATIONS CONTEXT (do not invent beyond this):\n${dataBlock}`;
+
+    try {
+      const response = await converse(client, responseModelId, {
+        system: [{ text: foodSystemPrompt }],
+        messages: [{ role: 'user', content: [{ text: userText }] }],
+        inferenceConfig: {
+          temperature: 0.4,
+          topP: 0.9,
+          maxTokens: 500,
+        },
+      });
+
+      return {
+        intent: intentCategory,
+        text: responseText(response).trim(),
+        usage: null,
+        modelId: responseModelId,
+      };
+    } catch (e) {
+      console.warn('[pipeline][food] Bedrock failed; falling back to deterministic formatting:', e?.message || e);
+    }
+
+    return {
+      intent: intentCategory,
+      text: `🍽 Food suggestions are currently unavailable for this event.`,
+      usage: null,
+      modelId: null,
+    };
+  }
+
+  if (
+    intentCategory === 'Event Information' ||
+    intentCategory === 'Personal Information' ||
+    intentCategory === 'Places'
+  ) {
+    const includeEventDetails = bot?.knowledge?.includeEventDetails !== false;
+
+    const ragResult = await executeConciergeRag(eventId, userQuestion, eventName, {
+      includeEventDetails,
+      includeFoodRecommendations,
+      history: historyForRag,
+      promptIntent: intentCategory,
+    });
+
+    return {
+      intent: intentCategory,
+      text:
+        ragResult?.text ||
+        "I don't have that in my knowledge base yet. Please check with event staff or try another question.",
+      usage: ragResult?.usage || null,
+      modelId: ragResult?.modelId || null,
+    };
+  }
+
+  return {
+    intent: intentCategory,
+    text: 'Hi! Tell me what you’re looking for (food, directions, schedule, or your ticket/check-in).',
+    usage: null,
+    modelId: null,
+  };
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+  runConciergePipeline,
+};
+

src/services/conciergeRag.service.js

@@ -88,9 +88,26 @@ async function executeConciergeRag(eventId, userQuery, eventName, options = {})
     chunkFilter.sourceId = { $nin: excludedSourceIds };
   }
 
+  // Debug: confirm why RAG can short-circuit before reaching the LLM.
+  // (Keep this log lightweight; remove later if noisy.)
+  try {
+    const totalActiveForEvent = await ContextChunk.countDocuments({ eventId, isActive: true });
+    const matchingChunksCount = await ContextChunk.countDocuments(chunkFilter);
+    console.log('[conciergeRag][debug] RAG chunk gating', {
+      eventId,
+      isActive: true,
+      embedModelId,
+      totalActiveForEvent,
+      matchingChunksCount,
+    });
+  } catch (e) {
+    console.warn('[conciergeRag][debug] chunk gating log failed:', e?.message || e);
+  }
+
   const activeChunks = await ContextChunk.find(chunkFilter).lean();
   if (!activeChunks.length) return null;
 
+
   const ranked = activeChunks
     .map((chunk) => ({ text: chunk.rawText, score: cosineSimilarity(queryEmbedding, chunk.embedding) }))
     .sort((a, b) => b.score - a.score)
@@ -99,7 +116,10 @@ async function executeConciergeRag(eventId, userQuery, eventName, options = {})
   const contextBlock = ranked.map((c) => c.text).join('\n\n');
   const { region, modelId: configuredId } = getBedrockConfig();
   const client = createBedrockClient(region);
-  const system = buildConciergeSystemPrompt(eventName);
+  // Pass intent/category so the concierge system prompt can be specialized.
+  const system = buildConciergeSystemPrompt(eventName, options.promptIntent || 'general');
+
+
   const eventFacts = await buildEventFactsBlock(eventId);
 
   const historyBlock = history

src/services/foodDb.service.js

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb');
+
+const DEFAULT_EXTERNAL_DB_NAME = 'reallives_serverless_eb';
+const DEFAULT_EXTERNAL_COLLECTION = 'Food';
+
+function getExternalMongoUri() {
+  return process.env.MONGODB_URI || '';
+}
+
+function getCollection() {
+  return process.env.FOOD_EXTERNAL_COLLECTION || DEFAULT_EXTERNAL_COLLECTION;
+}
+
+function getDbName() {
+  return process.env.FOOD_EXTERNAL_DB || DEFAULT_EXTERNAL_DB_NAME;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Fetch existing food record for an event from external DB.
+ *
+ * @param {string} eventId
+ * @returns {Promise<{ location?: string, recommendations?: string, restaurants?: any[], raw?: any } | null>}
+ */
+async function fetchFoodRecordForEvent(eventId) {
+  const eventIdStr = eventId != null ? String(eventId) : '';
+  if (!eventIdStr) return null;
+
+  const mongoUri = getExternalMongoUri();
+  if (!mongoUri) return null;
+
+  const client = new MongoClient(mongoUri, { useNewUrlParser: true, useUnifiedTopology: true });
+  await client.connect();
+  try {
+    const db = client.db(getDbName());
+    const coll = db.collection(getCollection());
+
+    // The external doc created in foodRecommendationService uses { eventId: <string> }
+    const doc = await coll.findOne({ eventId: eventIdStr });
+    if (!doc) return null;
+
+    return {
+      location: doc.location,
+      recommendations: doc.recommendations,
+      restaurants: doc.restaurants,
+      raw: doc,
+    };
+  } finally {
+    await client.close();
+  }
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+  fetchFoodRecordForEvent,
+};
+

src/services/foodRecommendationService.js

@@ -249,14 +249,23 @@ async function searchFoodPlaces(
         phone_number:
           details.formatted_phone_number ||
           details.international_phone_number,
-        reviews:
+        reviewsSummary:
-          (details.reviews || []).map((r) => ({
+          (details.reviews || [])
-            author_name: r.author_name,
+            .map((r) => {
-            rating: r.rating,
+              const text = r.text;
-            relative_time_description:
+              const summary = String(text || '')
-              r.relative_time_description,
+                .replace(/\s+/g, ' ')
-            text: r.text,
+                .trim()
-          })),
+                .split(/[.!?]/)[0]
+                .trim();
+
+              const s = summary || String(text || '').slice(0, 120);
+              const rating = r.rating != null ? ` (${r.rating})` : '';
+              return `${s}${rating}`;
+            })
+            .filter(Boolean)
+            .slice(0, 8)
+            .join(' • '),
         cuisines: parseCuisine(types),
         delivery:
           types.includes("meal_delivery"),

src/utils/bedrockClient.js

@@ -1,13 +1,15 @@
 const { BedrockRuntimeClient } = require('@aws-sdk/client-bedrock-runtime');
 
-const DEFAULT_BEDROCK_MODEL_ID = 'meta.llama3-8b-instruct-v1:0';
+const DEFAULT_BEDROCK_MODEL_ID = 'amazon.nova-lite-v1:0';
+
+
 const DEFAULT_BEDROCK_EMBED_MODEL_ID = 'amazon.titan-embed-text-v2:0';
 
 const REGION_FALLBACK_MODEL_IDS = [
-  'meta.llama3-8b-instruct-v1:0',
+  'amazon.nova-micro-v1:0',
-  'meta.llama3-70b-instruct-v1:0',
 ];
 
+
 const REGION_FALLBACK_EMBED_MODEL_IDS = [
   'amazon.titan-embed-text-v2:0',
   'amazon.titan-embed-text-v1:0',

src/utils/bedrockConverse.js

@@ -16,17 +16,38 @@ function responseText(response) {
  */
 async function converse(client, modelId, opts) {
   const { system, messages, inferenceConfig } = opts;
+
+  // Allow tuning for different models/environments.
+  // Defaults preserve existing behavior if env vars are not set.
+  const temperatureEnv = process.env.BEDROCK_TEMPERATURE;
+  const topPEnv = process.env.BEDROCK_TOP_P;
+
+  const temperature =
+    temperatureEnv != null && temperatureEnv !== ''
+      ? Number(temperatureEnv)
+      : 0.3;
+
+  const topP = topPEnv != null && topPEnv !== '' ? Number(topPEnv) : 0.9;
+
+  const mergedInferenceConfig = {
+    maxTokens: 2048,
+    temperature: Number.isFinite(temperature) ? temperature : 0.3,
+    topP: Number.isFinite(topP) ? topP : 0.9,
+    ...inferenceConfig,
+  };
+
+  console.log('[bedrock][converse] modelId=', modelId, {
+    temperature: mergedInferenceConfig.temperature,
+    topP: mergedInferenceConfig.topP,
+    maxTokens: mergedInferenceConfig.maxTokens,
+  });
+
   return client.send(
     new ConverseCommand({
       modelId,
       ...(system && system.length ? { system } : {}),
       messages,
-      inferenceConfig: {
+      inferenceConfig: mergedInferenceConfig,
-        maxTokens: 2048,
-        temperature: 0.3,
-        topP: 0.9,
-        ...inferenceConfig,
-      },
     }),
   );
 }

src/utils/conciergeGreeting.js

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+function interpolateConciergeGreeting(template, values = {}) {
+  const greeting = String(template || '').trim();
+  if (!greeting) {
+    const profileName = values.profileName || 'Guest';
+    const eventName = values.eventName ? ` for ${values.eventName}` : '';
+    return `Hello ${profileName}${eventName}! How can I help you today?`;
+  }
+
+  return greeting.replace(/{{\s*(\w+)\s*}}/g, (_, key) => {
+    if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(values, key)) {
+      return String(values[key] ?? '');
+    }
+    return '';
+  });
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+  interpolateConciergeGreeting,
+};

src/utils/conciergeIntent.js

@@ -0,0 +1,207 @@
+const { createBedrockClient, getBedrockConfig } = require('./bedrockClient');
+const { converse, responseText } = require('./bedrockConverse');
+
+const INTENT_CATEGORIES = {
+  EVENT_INFORMATION: 'Event Information',
+  PERSONAL_INFORMATION: 'Personal Information',
+  FOOD: 'Food',
+  PLACES: 'Places',
+  UNRECOGNIZED: 'unrecognized',
+};
+
+function tryParse(s) {
+
+  if (!s) return null;
+
+  const trimmed = String(s).trim();
+
+  try {
+    return JSON.parse(trimmed);
+  } catch {
+
+    const fenced =
+      trimmed.match(/```json\s*([\s\S]*?)\s*```/i) ||
+      trimmed.match(/```\s*([\s\S]*?)\s*```/i);
+
+    if (fenced?.[1]) {
+      try {
+        return JSON.parse(fenced[1]);
+      } catch {}
+    }
+
+    const objectMatch = trimmed.match(/\{[\s\S]*\}/);
+
+    if (objectMatch?.[0]) {
+      try {
+        return JSON.parse(objectMatch[0]);
+      } catch {}
+    }
+
+    return null;
+  }
+}
+
+function classifyByRules(message) {
+  const text = String(message || '').toLowerCase();
+
+  // PERSONAL
+  if (
+    /\b(my|am i|me)\b/.test(text) &&
+    /\b(ticket|badge|registration|registered|qr|check.?in|seat|profile)\b/.test(text)
+  ) {
+    return { category: 'Personal Information', databaseSearchNeeded: true };
+  }
+
+  // EVENT
+  if (
+    /\b(session|sessions|schedule|agenda|speaker|speakers|workshop|workshops|keynote|program)\b/.test(
+      text,
+    )
+  ) {
+    return { category: 'Event Information', databaseSearchNeeded: true };
+  }
+
+  // FOOD
+  if (
+    /\b(food|eat|restaurant|cafe|vendor|menu|breakfast|lunch|dinner|coffee|tea|vegetarian|vegan)\b/.test(
+      text,
+    )
+  ) {
+    return { category: 'Food', databaseSearchNeeded: true };
+  }
+
+  // PLACES
+  if (
+    /\b(hall|room|booth|parking|restroom|bathroom|gate|entrance|exit|directions|map|stage)\b/.test(
+      text,
+    )
+  ) {
+    return { category: 'Places', databaseSearchNeeded: true };
+  }
+
+  // GREETINGS
+  if (/\b(hello|hi|hey|good morning|good afternoon)\b/.test(text)) {
+    return { category: 'unrecognized', databaseSearchNeeded: false };
+  }
+
+  return null;
+}
+
+function buildIntentClassificationPrompt() {
+  return `You are an intent classifier for an event assistant.
+
+Classify the CURRENT USER MESSAGE into exactly ONE category from:
+- Event Information
+- Personal Information
+- Food
+- Places
+- unrecognized
+
+Categories:
+- Event Information: schedules, sessions, workshops, speakers, agendas, programs, event details
+- Personal Information: my registration, my ticket, badge, QR code, check-in, attendee profile
+- Food: food, meals, restaurants, cafes, vendors, dietary preferences
+- Places: halls, rooms, parking, restrooms, directions, booths
+- unrecognized: greetings, compliments, or unrelated requests
+
+Rules:
+- If the message is about the user themselves (ticket/badge/QR/check-in/profile), use Personal Information.
+- If the message is about what/when/where inside the event (schedule, speakers, sessions, workshops, agenda, program), use Event Information.
+- If the message asks what to eat or where to eat, use Food.
+- If the message asks for navigation inside the venue (directions/maps/where is X room/stage/booth), use Places.
+
+Also decide whether the backend should perform a knowledge base lookup:
+- databaseSearchNeeded: true when the answer depends on event knowledge or places/food knowledge.
+- databaseSearchNeeded: false for greetings or non-actionable messages.
+
+Output format (STRICT):
+Return ONLY a valid minified JSON object with this exact schema:
+{"category":"Event Information"|"Personal Information"|"Food"|"Places"|"unrecognized","databaseSearchNeeded":true|false}
+`;
+}
+
+
+
+function normalizeMessagesToText(messages) {
+  if (!Array.isArray(messages)) return '';
+  return messages
+    .slice(-6)
+    .map((m) => {
+      const role = m?.role === 'assistant' ? 'Assistant' : 'User';
+      const text = String(m?.text || '').trim();
+      return `${role}: ${text}`.trim();
+    })
+    .filter(Boolean)
+    .join('\n');
+}
+
+async function determineIntentCategory(chatContextMessages = []) {
+
+  const latestUserMessage =
+    [...chatContextMessages]
+      .reverse()
+      .find(m => m.role === 'user')
+      ?.text || '';
+
+  // Rule-based classification first
+  const ruleResult = classifyByRules(latestUserMessage);
+
+  if (ruleResult) {
+    return ruleResult;
+  }
+
+  // Fallback to Nova Lite
+  const { region, modelId } = getBedrockConfig();
+
+  const client = createBedrockClient(region);
+
+  const system = buildIntentClassificationPrompt();
+
+  const userText = `
+CURRENT USER MESSAGE:
+${latestUserMessage}
+
+Return JSON only.
+`;
+
+  const response = await converse(client, modelId, {
+    system: [{ text: system }],
+    messages: [
+      {
+        role: 'user',
+        content: [{ text: userText }]
+      }
+    ],
+    inferenceConfig: {
+      temperature: 0,
+      topP: 0.01,
+      maxTokens: 50
+    }
+  });
+
+  const raw = responseText(response);
+
+  const parsed = tryParse(raw);
+
+  const category =
+    parsed?.category &&
+    Object.values(INTENT_CATEGORIES).includes(parsed.category)
+      ? parsed.category
+      : INTENT_CATEGORIES.UNRECOGNIZED;
+
+  const databaseSearchNeeded =
+    typeof parsed?.databaseSearchNeeded === 'boolean'
+      ? parsed.databaseSearchNeeded
+      : false;
+
+  return {
+    category,
+    databaseSearchNeeded
+  };
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+  determineIntentCategory,
+  INTENT_CATEGORIES,
+};
+