Lesson 045: Vector index stewardship
Focus
Prefer explicit failure rehearsals over aspirational wording. Token Vector index stewardship:45 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Vector index stewardship · drill v5 · spin
650708. - 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 | 426 | hybrid@0.54 | preserve tables |
| Policies | 464 | dense@0.67 | ACL metadata required |
Drill: justify chunk boundaries for lesson 45.
Practice
Practice Draft three eval assertions QA must pass before prompt promotion. — 45 Bump 23.