GenAI Intermediate — 133: simulate degraded retrieval on `Policy escalation design` — memo `303351 [133]`

Lesson 133: Policy escalation design

Focus

Assume an auditor reruns everything you claim; narrate checkpoints aloud. Token Policy escalation design:133 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: Policy escalation design · drill v3 · spin 654261.
• 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": 36,
    "team": "team-1"
  }
}

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

Practice

Practice Pair with multilingual SME review—even if hypothetical. — 133 Bump literals mindset by 32.