GenAI Advanced — 166: stress-test refusal paths on `Portfolio metrics that survive audits` — memo `645644 [166]`

Lesson 166: Portfolio metrics that survive audits

Focus

Bias toward observable metrics, not model marketing. Token Portfolio metrics that survive audits:166 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: Portfolio metrics that survive audits · drill v6 · spin 38067.
• 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

Tool-contract rehearsal

{
  "name": "forecastBacklog",
  "arguments": {
    "hours": 54,
    "team": "team-4"
  }
}

Preconditions documented in directory snapshot 202509
FAILURE: escalate if horizons > 720h without VP approval memo.

Practice

Practice Attach rollback steps if evaluator variance spikes. — 166 Bump literals mindset by 11.