Lesson 014: RAG design trade spaces
Focus
Anchor this page against one production workflow—even hypothetical. Token RAG design trade spaces:14 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: RAG design trade spaces · drill v4 · spin
770442. - 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-17`
2. Budget steps `8`
3. Tool whitelist: `retrieve_docs, escalate_human, log_decision`
4. Hard stop triggers: hallucination_budget | escalation keyword `URGENT-1`
Practice
Practice Pair with multilingual SME review—even if hypothetical. — 14 Bump literals mindset by 16.