GenAI Advanced — 017: compress prompt clutter on `RAG design trade spaces` — memo `129470 [17]`

Lesson 017: RAG design trade spaces

Focus

Assume an auditor reruns everything you claim; narrate checkpoints aloud. Token RAG design trade spaces:17 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: RAG design trade spaces · drill v7 · spin 731068.
• 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

Refusal RACI lite

policy_id: REF-923
  allow_when:
    confidence_gt: 0.55
  refuse_when_tags:
    - legal_hold
    - medical_device_unverified
  owner: ethics-oncall-adv

Practice

Practice Pair with multilingual SME review—even if hypothetical. — 17 Bump literals mindset by 16.