diff --git a/packages/orchestration-service/src/chat/index.js b/packages/orchestration-service/src/chat/index.js
index 829d37a..3f7ef2e 100644
--- a/packages/orchestration-service/src/chat/index.js
+++ b/packages/orchestration-service/src/chat/index.js
@@ -93,4 +93,60 @@ async function chat(externalId, userMessage, options = {}) {
     };
 }
 
-module.exports = { chat };
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+async function chatStream(externalId, userMessage, onChunk, options = {} ) {
+    // 1. Resolve or create session
+    let session = await memory.getSessionByExternalId(externalId);
+    if (!session) session = await memory.createSession(externalId);
+
+    // 2. Context assembly
+    const recentEpisodes = await memory.getRecentEpisodes(session.id, RECENT_EPISODE_LIMIT);
+    const recentIds = new Set(recentEpisodes.map(e => e.id));
+    const semanticEpisodes = await getSemanticEpisodes(userMessage, session.id, recentIds)
+
+    // 3. Assemble Prompt
+    const prompt = buildPrompt(recentEpisodes, semanticEpisodes, userMessage);
+
+    // 4. Open stream to inference service
+    const res = await inference.completeStream(prompt, options);
+
+    let fullText = '';
+    let model = '';
+    let tokenCount = 0;
+
+    // 5. Parse SSE chunks
+    for await (const chunk of res.body){
+        const lines = chunk.toString().split('\n');
+
+        for (const line of lines) {
+            if (!line.startsWith('data: ')) continue;
+            const raw = line.slice(6).trim();
+            if (raw === '[DONE]') continue //stream closed sentinel
+
+            try {
+                const data = JSON.parse(raw);
+                if (data.model) model = data.model
+
+                if (data.response) {
+                    fullText += data.response;
+                    onChunk(data.response);
+                }
+
+                if (data.done && data.eval_count !== undefined) {
+                    tokenCount = (data.eval_count || 0) + (data.prompt_eval_count || 0)
+                }
+            } catch {
+                //partial chunk
+                //skip and wait for next
+            }
+
+        }
+    }
+
+    // 6. Write Complete episode to memory
+    memory.createEpisode(session.id, userMessage, fullText, tokenCount)
+        .catch(err => console.error('[orchestration] Failed to save streamed episode:', err.message))
+    
+    return {model, tokenCount};        
+}
+
+module.exports = { chat, chatStream };
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diff --git a/packages/orchestration-service/src/routes/chat.js b/packages/orchestration-service/src/routes/chat.js
index a66278f..fc0e676 100644
--- a/packages/orchestration-service/src/routes/chat.js
+++ b/packages/orchestration-service/src/routes/chat.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 const { Router } = require('express')
-const { chat } = require('../chat/index');
+const { chat, chatStream } = require('../chat/index');
 const memory = require('../services/memory')
 
 const router = Router();
@@ -22,4 +22,29 @@ router.post('/', async (req, res) => {
     }
 });
 
+router.post('/stream', async (req, res) => {
+    const {sessionId, message} = req.body;
+    if(!sessionId || !message) {
+        return res.status(400).json({
+            error: 'sessionId and message are required'
+        });
+    }
+
+    res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/event-stream');
+    res.setHeader('Cache-Control', 'no-cache');
+    res.setHeader('Connection', 'keep-alive');
+    res.flushHeaders();
+
+    try {
+        await chatStream(sessionId, message, (delta) => {
+            res.write(`data: ${JSON.stringify({ text: delta})}\n\n`)
+        })
+        res.write(`data: ${JSON.stringify({done: true})}\n\n`);
+    } catch (err) {
+        res.write(`data: ${JSON.stringify({error: err.message})}\n\n`);
+    } finally {
+        res.end();
+    }
+});
+
 module.exports = router;
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diff --git a/packages/orchestration-service/src/services/inference.js b/packages/orchestration-service/src/services/inference.js
index ccb4f44..2363b16 100644
--- a/packages/orchestration-service/src/services/inference.js
+++ b/packages/orchestration-service/src/services/inference.js
@@ -13,6 +13,17 @@ async function complete(prompt, options ={}) {
     return res.json();
 }
 
+async function completeStream(prompt, options={}) {
+    const res = await fetch(`${BASE_URL}/complete/stream`, {
+        method: 'POST',
+        headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
+        body: JSON.stringify({prompt, ...options}),
+    })
+    if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Inference service error: ${res.status}`);
+    return res;
+}
+
 module.exports = {
-    complete
+    complete,
+    completeStream
 }
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