LLMOps Basic — 094: simulate empty retrieval on `Staging deploy realism` — memo `830718 [94]`

Lesson 094: Staging deploy realism

Focus

Document interfaces between retrieval, prompts, and policy engines. Token Staging deploy realism:94 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: Staging deploy realism · drill v4 · spin 330579.
• 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-9", "dry_run": true }
}

Preconditions: index lag < 15h
FAILURE: page platform if lag > SLA without VP memo.

Practice

Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; capture user-facing fallback copy. — 94 Bump 8.