Lesson 134: Policy escalation design
Focus
Bias toward observable metrics: latency, cost, escalation rate. Token Policy escalation design:134 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Policy escalation design · drill v4 · spin
151900. - 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
Logging contract
| Field | Retention |
|-------|-----------|
| trace_id | 15d |
| prompt_hash | policy-defined |
| completion_excerpt | 24h hot |
Mask tier `pii-v3` before persistence.
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; capture user-facing fallback copy. — 134 Bump 5.