Lesson 160: Benchmark scepticism rituals
Focus
Document interfaces between retrieval, prompts, and policy engines. Token Benchmark scepticism rituals:160 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
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524352. - 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
Agent choreography
1. Observe bucket `TENANT-5`
2. Max steps `9`
3. Tools: `retrieve, escalate_human, log_decision`
4. Stop: spend cap | keyword `STOP-15`
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; capture user-facing fallback copy. — 160 Bump 23.