AIC Phase 1: How to run custom aic_model service in Flowstate with AIC_ROUTER_ADDR?

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Hi Intrinsic / AIC team,

I’m working on AIC Phase 1 in Flowstate and trying to run my participant model as a custom Service instance named exactly aic_model.

The baseline AIC Phase 1 Submission process expects:

  • lifecycle service: /aic_model/change_state
  • action server: /insert_cable

I have a local Docker image:

my-solution:phase1_basic_control_ladder

The image works in local Docker Compose when launched with the AIC router environment variables. Its entrypoint requires:

AIC_ROUTER_ADDR

and may require AIC_MODEL_PASSWD if ACL is enabled.

From inspecting the SDK/Flowstate tooling, it looks like the possible path is:

inctl asset install <bundle.tar> --org ... --cluster ...
inctl service add <service_asset_id_version> --cluster ... --name aic_model

I can package the Docker image as a Service asset bundle, but I don’t want to guess the router environment contract.

Questions:

  1. For a custom Flowstate Service instance named aic_model, does Flowstate automatically inject AIC_ROUTER_ADDR and AIC_MODEL_PASSWD?
  2. If not, what should AIC_ROUTER_ADDR be set to in simulation inside the Flowstate VM?
  3. What is the approved way to provide AIC_MODEL_PASSWD without exposing secrets?
  4. Is inctl asset install + inctl service add --name aic_model the intended local Flowstate testing workflow for AIC Phase 1, or is there another approved way to make the participant model available to the solution?

Thanks!