The outcome

Answer from a governed corpus with traceable sources, explicit refresh rules, and tested unanswerable behavior.

Step by step

A workflow you can repeat.

  1. 01

    Define source owners, readers, permissions, retention, freshness, expected questions, citations, and a benchmark with unanswerable cases.

  2. 02

    Create a dedicated knowledge base, clean and deduplicate documents, remove secrets, and choose parsing and chunking for representative formats.

  3. 03

    Configure embedding, retrieval, top-k, score threshold, reranking, and metadata filters while preserving source and access identifiers.

  4. 04

    Attach retrieval to a test app and inspect retrieved chunks separately from answers for recall, stale data, injection, contradictions, and leakage.

  5. 05

    Require source-backed responses and abstention, restrict app and API access, and test updates, deletions, monitoring, and index rollback.

Working standard

What good use looks like.

  • Isolate corpora by access boundary.
  • Evaluate retrieval separately from answers.
  • Test refresh and deletion propagation.

Official references

Check the current product documentation.