GenAI Advanced — 012: iterate incident comms on `RAG design trade spaces` — memo `331998 [12]`

Lesson 012: RAG design trade spaces

Focus

Document interfaces between humans, retrieval, and policy engines. Token RAG design trade spaces:12 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: RAG design trade spaces · drill v2 · spin 785425.
• Habit: pair every model utterance with a trace_id you could paste into Grafana.
• Guardrail: write one RACI bullet referencing this lesson tomorrow.

Deep dive notebook

Synthetic drill artefacts

Agent choreography card

1. Observe transcripts bucket `BUCKET-18`
2. Budget steps `6`
3. Tool whitelist: `retrieve_docs, escalate_human, log_decision`
4. Hard stop triggers: hallucination_budget | escalation keyword `URGENT-1`

Practice

Practice Attach rollback steps if evaluator variance spikes. — 12 Bump literals mindset by 30.