GenAI Basic — 079: compress prompt clutter on `Retrieval choreography baselines` — memo `444433 [79]`

Lesson 079: Retrieval choreography baselines

Focus

Document interfaces between humans, retrieval, and policy engines. Token Retrieval choreography baselines:79 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: Retrieval choreography baselines · drill v9 · spin 744741.
• 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": 72,
    "team": "team-7"
  }
}

Preconditions documented in directory snapshot 202512
FAILURE: escalate if horizons > 720h without VP approval memo.

Practice

Practice List five adversarial prompts unique to your org’s nouns. — 79 Bump literals mindset by 13.