rrezartprebreza/spring-boot-spring-ai-integration
> Use when integrating LLMs, chat clients, embeddings, RAG pipelines, or AI agents into Spring Boot. Covers Spring AI 2.0 ChatClient, prompt templates, embeddings, vector stores, and structured output. Use when user mentions Spring AI, LLM, ChatGPT, Claude, RAG, embeddings.
npx skills add https://github.com/rrezartprebreza/spring-boot-skills --skill spring-ai-integration
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.ai</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-ai-bom</artifactId>
<version>2.0.0</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<!-- Choose your model provider — pattern is spring-ai-starter-model-<provider> -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.ai</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-ai-starter-model-anthropic</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- OR -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.ai</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-ai-starter-model-openai</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- For RAG / vector search -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.ai</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-ai-starter-vector-store-pgvector</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- QuestionAnswerAdvisor lives here — 2.0 renamed spring-ai-advisors-vector-store -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.ai</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-ai-vector-store-advisor</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
> Version pairing matters. Spring Boot 4 requires Spring AI 2.0 (spring-ai-bom 2.0.0);
> the 1.x line targets Boot 3 only. Starter coordinates follow spring-ai-starter-model-<provider>
> (e.g. -model-anthropic, -model-openai) and spring-ai-starter-vector-store-<store>.
> Agents trained on pre-1.0 Spring AI emit spring-ai-<x>-spring-boot-starter — those names
> resolve to nothing in Maven Central. Also gone in 2.0: spring-ai-starter-model-azure-openai
> (use the OpenAI starter with an Azure base URL instead).
@Service
@RequiredArgsConstructor
public class DocumentSummaryService {
private final ChatClient chatClient;
public String summarize(String conversationId, String content) {
return chatClient.prompt()
.advisors(a -> a.param(ChatMemory.CONVERSATION_ID, conversationId))
.user(u -> u.text("Summarize the following document in 3 bullet points:\n\n{content}")
.param("content", content))
.call()
.content();
}
// With system prompt
public String analyzeFinancial(String conversationId, String document, String language) {
return chatClient.prompt()
.advisors(a -> a.param(ChatMemory.CONVERSATION_ID, conversationId))
.system("You are a financial analyst. Respond in {language}.")
.system(s -> s.param("language", language))
.user(document)
.call()
.content();
}
}
Every call using the configured memory advisor must provide a user- or session-scoped
ChatMemory.CONVERSATION_ID. Never use one shared conversation ID for all users.
@Configuration
public class AiConfig {
@Bean
public ChatMemory chatMemory() {
// InMemoryChatMemory is long gone. Use MessageWindowChatMemory —
// it caps history to a sliding window and defaults to an in-memory repository.
return MessageWindowChatMemory.builder()
.maxMessages(20)
.build();
}
@Bean
public ChatClient chatClient(ChatClient.Builder builder, ChatMemory chatMemory) {
return builder
.defaultSystem("You are a helpful assistant for an e-commerce platform.")
.defaultAdvisors(
MessageChatMemoryAdvisor.builder(chatMemory).build(), // builder, not new(...)
new SimpleLoggerAdvisor() // logs prompts/responses
)
.build();
}
}
// 2.0: the conversation id is REQUIRED on every call that goes through a memory advisor.
// ChatMemory.DEFAULT_CONVERSATION_ID is removed — omitting the param throws IllegalArgumentException.
public String chat(String sessionId, String message) {
return chatClient.prompt()
.user(message)
.advisors(a -> a.param(ChatMemory.CONVERSATION_ID, sessionId))
.call()
.content();
}
// src/main/resources/prompts/analyze-order.st
// Analyze this order and identify any anomalies:
// Customer: {customer}
// Items: {items}
// Total: {total}
// Flag any unusual patterns.
@Service
public class OrderAnalysisService {
@Value("classpath:prompts/analyze-order.st")
private Resource promptTemplate;
public String analyzeOrder(String conversationId, Order order) {
return chatClient.prompt()
.advisors(a -> a.param(ChatMemory.CONVERSATION_ID, conversationId))
.user(u -> u.text(promptTemplate)
.param("customer", order.getCustomerEmail())
.param("items", order.getItems().toString())
.param("total", order.getTotal()))
.call()
.content();
}
}
// Define the target record
public record OrderClassification(
String category,
String priority,
List<String> tags,
boolean requiresManualReview
) {}
@Service
public class OrderClassifier {
public OrderClassification classify(String orderDescription) {
return chatClient.prompt()
.user("Classify this order: " + orderDescription)
.call()
.entity(OrderClassification.class); // Spring AI handles JSON parsing
}
}
@Configuration
public class RagConfig {
// No manual VectorStore bean — the spring-ai-starter-vector-store-pgvector
// starter auto-configures one. Just inject it. (The old `new PgVectorStore(...)`
// constructor is removed; if you must build one, use PgVectorStore.builder(...).)
@Bean
public ChatClient ragChatClient(ChatClient.Builder builder, VectorStore vectorStore) {
return builder
.defaultAdvisors(
QuestionAnswerAdvisor.builder(vectorStore)
.searchRequest(SearchRequest.builder().topK(5).build()) // builder, not defaults().withTopK()
.build()
)
.build();
}
}
@Service
@RequiredArgsConstructor
public class KnowledgeService {
private final VectorStore vectorStore;
private final ChatClient ragChatClient;
// Ingest documents
public void ingest(List<String> documents) {
List<Document> docs = documents.stream()
.map(content -> new Document(content))
.toList();
vectorStore.add(docs);
}
// Query with RAG
public String ask(String question) {
return ragChatClient.prompt()
.user(question)
.call()
.content();
}
}
@GetMapping(value = "/stream", produces = MediaType.TEXT_EVENT_STREAM_VALUE)
public Flux<String> stream(@RequestParam String prompt) {
return chatClient.prompt()
.user(prompt)
.stream()
.content();
}
spring:
ai:
anthropic:
api-key: ${ANTHROPIC_API_KEY}
chat:
# 2.0 flattened the properties — the old chat.options.* nesting is dead
model: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929
max-tokens: 2048
temperature: 0.7 # 2.0 removed the 0.7 default — set it explicitly if you rely on it
# OR for OpenAI:
openai:
api-key: ${OPENAI_API_KEY}
chat:
model: gpt-4o
vectorstore:
pgvector:
initialize-schema: true
dimensions: 1536
spring-ai-bom 1.0.x) on Spring Boot 4 — 1.x targets Boot 3 only; Boot 4 requires Spring AI 2.0spring-ai-anthropic-spring-boot-starter) — the pattern is spring-ai-starter-model-anthropicspring.ai.anthropic.chat.options.model — 2.0 flattened properties; drop the .options segment (spring.ai.anthropic.chat.model).options(...) — 2.0 takes the builder: .options(AnthropicChatOptions.builder().maxTokens(2048)), no .build()new MessageChatMemoryAdvisor(new InMemoryChatMemory()) — both long removed; use MessageChatMemoryAdvisor.builder(chatMemory) + MessageWindowChatMemoryChatMemory.DEFAULT_CONVERSATION_ID removed); pass a.param(ChatMemory.CONVERSATION_ID, ...) or get IllegalArgumentExceptionPromptChatMemoryAdvisor — removed in 2.0; use MessageChatMemoryAdvisorspring-ai-advisors-vector-store for QuestionAnswerAdvisor — renamed to spring-ai-vector-store-advisor in 2.0SearchRequest.defaults().withTopK(n) — use SearchRequest.builder().topK(n).build()${...}.param() template variablessrc/main/resources/prompts/.entity(MyClass.class) instead of parsing manually.entity(List.class) for a list — generics erase; pass new ParameterizedTypeReference<List<X>>() {}NonTransientAiException (don't retry) vs TransientAiException (retry)Take rrezartprebreza/spring-boot-spring-ai-integration from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
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