SmartHR Assistant - AI Agent with Fine-Grained Authorization

A sample application demonstrating how to implement an AI agent with fine-grained authorization controls when accessing sensitive user data.

Overview

SmartHR Assistant is an intelligent document management system that:

1. Provides secure access to HR documents based on complex authorization rules:

   • Salary information (viewable only by HR and the specific employee)
   • Performance reviews (viewable by employee, their manager, and HR)
   • Employee information (viewable by HR and the specific employee)
   • Team documents (viewable by team members only)
   • Company policies (public to all employees)

2. Offers AI-powered capabilities:

   • Answers questions about policies and procedures
   • Generates document summaries
   • Assists with document search

Data Categories with Different Authorization Levels

1. Employee Information

• Salary information
• Performance reviews
• Employee personal and public information

2. Team Information

• Team documents
• Team members

3. Company Information

• Company policies
• Company documents

Authorization Levels

1. Employee Level

• Full access to their own records
• Limited access to other employees' public information
• Full access to public company documents
• Full access to their teams documents

2. Manager Level

Employee Level +

• Full access to their team members information
• Full access to performance reviews of their team

3. HR Level

Manager Level +

• Full access to all employee information
• Full access to all team information
• Full access to all performance reviews

4. Admin Level

• Full access to all data

Future Enhancements

• Convert to Express App and add a Chat UI for the application
• Integrate Auth0 and get the user information from Auth0
• Add tool calling agent
• Add SQL DB for realtime data
• Add Async auth example

How to run

Prerequisites

• An Okta FGA account, you can create one here.
• An OpenAI account and API key create one here.

Setup

1. Install the dependencies

npm install

2. Create a .env file using the format below:

    # OpenAI
    OPENAI_API_KEY=xx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   
    # Okta FGA
    FGA_STORE_ID=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    FGA_CLIENT_ID=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    FGA_CLIENT_SECRET=xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    # Required only for non-US regions
    FGA_API_URL=https://api.xxx.fga.dev
    FGA_API_AUDIENCE=https://api.xxx.fga.dev/

Obtain OpenAI API Key

Use this page for instructions on how to find your OpenAI API key. Once you have your key, update the .env file accordingly.

Configure Okta FGA

1. Create a client

   Navigate to Settings and in the Authorized Clients section click + Create Client button. On the new page give your client a name and mark all three client permissions then click Create.

2. Copy the information on the modal and update your .env file with the values you now have for FGA_STORE_ID, FGA_CLIENT_ID, and FGA_CLIENT_SECRET.

3. Run the npm run fga-init script to initialize the FGA store with the model and tuples.

Run the application

npm start

Technical Stack

This application is built with TypeScript, Node.js, LlamaIndex, and OpenFGA.

Data Sources

All data will be in PDF and markdown files and will be loaded into an in-memory vector store on application startup.