Lesson 015: Prompt contract literacy
Focus
Document interfaces between retrieval, prompts, and policy engines. Token Prompt contract literacy:15 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Prompt contract literacy · drill v5 · spin
95766. - 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 < 16h
FAILURE: page platform if lag > SLA without VP memo.
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; capture user-facing fallback copy. — 15 Bump 30.