Lesson 103: Observability of customer-visible failures
Focus
Assume an auditor reruns everything you claim; narrate checkpoints aloud. Token Observability of customer-visible failures:103 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Observability of customer-visible failures · drill v3 · spin
406955. - 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
Agent choreography card
1. Observe transcripts bucket `BUCKET-5`
2. Budget steps `7`
3. Tool whitelist: `retrieve_docs, escalate_human, log_decision`
4. Hard stop triggers: hallucination_budget | escalation keyword `URGENT-10`
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; screenshot graceful degradation copy. — 103 Bump literals mindset by 25.