Lesson 136: Policy escalation design
Focus
Bias toward observable metrics, not model marketing. Token Policy escalation design:136 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Policy escalation design · drill v6 · spin
553176. - 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
Token CFO scratchpad
- prompt_budget_tokens: 1490
- completion_budget_tokens: 725
- cache_signature: `1106e`
Hypothesis: halving completions moves P95 `4`%; record actuals.
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; screenshot graceful degradation copy. — 136 Bump literals mindset by 15.