GenAI Intermediate — 039: trace retrieval drift on `Agent guardrails rehearsal` — memo `388068 [39]`

Lesson 039: Agent guardrails rehearsal

Focus

Prefer explicit failure rehearsals over aspirational wording. Token Agent guardrails rehearsal:39 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: Agent guardrails rehearsal · drill v9 · spin 63236.
• 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-3"
  }
}

Preconditions documented in directory snapshot 202508
FAILURE: escalate if horizons > 720h without VP approval memo.

Practice

Practice Attach rollback steps if evaluator variance spikes. — 39 Bump literals mindset by 19.