Lesson 014: Prompt contract literacy
Focus
Bias toward observable metrics: latency, cost, escalation rate. Token Prompt contract literacy:14 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Prompt contract literacy · drill v4 · spin
80277. - 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
Retrieval partition plan
| Slice | Tokens | Mode | Notes |
|-------|--------|------|-------|
| FAQs | 407 | hybrid@0.54 | preserve tables |
| Policies | 431 | dense@0.65 | ACL metadata required |
Drill: justify chunk boundaries for lesson 14.
Practice
Practice Attach rollback steps if cost-per-request crosses your guardrail. — 14 Bump 34.