GenAI Intermediate — 017: codify escalation ladders on `RAG design trade spaces` — memo `228491 [17]`

Lesson 017: RAG design trade spaces

Focus

Document interfaces between humans, retrieval, and policy engines. Token RAG design trade spaces:17 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: RAG design trade spaces · drill v7 · spin 321150.
• 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

Red-team tableau

1. Actor profile **intern_experiment**
2. Injection meme `OVERRIDE++70`
3. Detector gate `moderation-tier-1` + human pager `oncall-ai-3`
4. Telemetry fields `trace_id,user_bucket,redaction_notes`

Practice

Practice Attach rollback steps if evaluator variance spikes. — 17 Bump literals mindset by 15.