Lesson 045: Vector index stewardship
Focus
Document interfaces between humans, retrieval, and policy engines. Token Vector index stewardship:45 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Vector index stewardship · drill v5 · spin
748433. - 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
Eval YAML snippet
case_id: GX-7789
input_stub: summarise incident_ticket_pool_7
must_include_patterns:
- "\[chunk_"
forbid_patterns:
- "SLA 15m" # unless citations exist
judge_profile: tempered_2
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; screenshot graceful degradation copy. — 45 Bump literals mindset by 10.