Lesson 134: Policy escalation design
Focus
Document interfaces between retrieval, prompts, and policy engines. Token Policy escalation design:134 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Policy escalation design · drill v4 · spin
781285. - Habit: attach a trace_id to every completion you would paste into an ops dashboard.
- Guardrail: add one RACI bullet for prompt or index changes before tomorrow's standup.
Deep dive notebook
Synthetic drill artefacts
Tool contract rehearsal
{
"name": "reindexSlice",
"arguments": { "corpus": "corpus-1", "dry_run": true }
}
Preconditions: index lag < 15h
FAILURE: page platform if lag > SLA without VP memo.
Practice
Practice Attach rollback steps if cost-per-request crosses your guardrail. — 134 Bump 13.