Friday is the AI debugging CLI that runs entirely on your infrastructure. Multi-step diagnosis across gRPC, gNMI, YANG, and Linux kernel networking with full privacy by design.
The problem
Modern engineering teams drown in fragmented observability, alert fatigue, and knowledge gaps no dashboard solves.
Logs in Datadog. Traces in Jaeger. Metrics in Grafana. Correlating across tools costs 40% of incident response time.
Teams receive 700+ alerts per day on average. Signal-to-noise ratio collapses. Real incidents get buried under noise.
gNMI streams, YANG models, and gRPC failures are notoriously hard to correlate. Diagnosing a silent drop requires deep protocol knowledge most engineers don't carry.
Existing AI tools require shipping logs and configs to external APIs. Security teams block adoption on day one.
Execution model
Every debugging session follows a deterministic, reversible pipeline. No magic. No surprises.
friday "query"friday --it${prev.field}${func[N].field}Capabilities
Not a chatbot wrapper. A purpose-built debugging runtime with production-grade safety semantics.
Runs ss -ti to extract live TCP state, retransmits, and queue depths. Connects to gRPC health endpoints and measures response latency end-to-end.
Monitors streaming RPCs for a configurable window, tracks sequence gaps to detect packet drops, and surfaces flow control backpressure events with drop percentage.
Every session runs READ → ANALYZE → MODIFY in strict order. Destructive ops require dry-run validation and explicit confirmation before execution.
Reads /proc/sys/net/ buffer parameters, compares against bandwidth-delay product recommendations, and applies sysctl -w changes with automatic LIFO rollback on failure.
Chain function outputs across steps using ${"{"}previous.port{"}"} syntax. The resolver navigates nested results and supports array indexing so each step builds on the last.
DocLM runs via vLLM inside your own infrastructure. No telemetry, no external API calls. Your network telemetry and YANG configs never leave your perimeter.
A fine-tuned language model specialized in network telemetry diagnostics and debugging. Built on Qwen2.5-Coder-3B and merged into a single FP16 model — it is the inference engine behind Friday, purpose-built for network engineers working with gRPC, gNMI, YANG, and Linux kernel networking.
Coverage
From L3 networking to container orchestration. Phase 1 ships networking deep. Phase 2 goes full-stack.
Privacy by design
Friday deploys into your own cloud environment. No external API calls. No telemetry. Your incident data never leaves your perimeter.