Lesson 031: Grounding and citation habits
Focus
Prefer explicit failure rehearsals over aspirational wording. Token Grounding and citation habits:31 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Grounding and citation habits · drill v1 · spin
191602. - 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
Token CFO scratchpad
- prompt_budget: 1997
- completion_budget: 500
- cache_key: `3c3a`
Hypothesis: halving completions moves P95 ~6% — record actuals.
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; capture user-facing fallback copy. — 31 Bump 22.