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 # UB Virtual Student Assistant (UB-VSA)  
 **RAG-powered chatbot for UB admissions, visa & campus life questions**
 
-[![HF Space Status](https://img.shields.io/badge/🤗 Spaces-Live-brightgreen.svg)](https://huggingface.co/spaces/TeamSAS/UB_VSA)  
-[![Docker](https://img.shields.io/badge/docker-ready-blue)](Dockerfile) [![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg)](#license)
 
 UB-VSA is a **retrieval-augmented conversational agent** that gives accurate, source-grounded answers about the University at Buffalo, with special focus on the needs of international students (F-1/OPT, I-20, course selection, housing, etc.).
 It combines:
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 | **UI** | Flask (+ vanilla JS) single-page chat |
 ---
 
+## ✨ Features
+* **Context-aware chat** – tracks the last few turns for coherent follow-ups.  
+* **Grounded citations** – every answer lists clickable sources.  
+* **Lightweight adapters** – fine-tuned with LoRA/QLoRA; base model stays frozen.  
+* **One-click deploy** – Dockerfile + `start.sh` spin up scraper, vector-store, API & UI.  
+* **Scalable vector DB** – FAISS index stored in `data/embeddings/`.  
+
+---
+
+## 🖥️ Online Demo
+> 👉 **Try it live:** https://huggingface.co/spaces/TeamSAS/UB_VSA
+
+We’re on the free HF hardware tier; first response may take ~30 s while the container wakes up.
+
+---
+
+## 🚀 Quick Start (Local)
+
+```bash
+git clone https://huggingface.co/spaces/TeamSAS/UB_VSA
+cd UB_VSA
+
+# 1. Python deps
+python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+# 2. Set your HF token (needed for Cerebras Inference API)
+export HUGGINGFACEHUB_API_TOKEN=hf_your_token_here
+
+# 3. Build embeddings (only first time, ~5 min)
+python main.py --build
+
+# 4. Launch backend + frontend
+python main.py --run
+
 Check out the configuration reference at https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-config-reference