The outcome
Return citation-ready answers from an authorized corpus with measurable retrieval and answer support.
Step by step
A workflow you can repeat.
- 01
Define source ownership, user permissions, location and retention requirements, expected questions, citations, and an unanswerable-aware benchmark.
- 02
Choose the RAG Engine or approved retrieval components, configure least-privilege identities and encryption, and ingest a small versioned corpus.
- 03
Preserve document IDs and permissions through parsing and chunking, then test retrieval recall and access filtering before generation.
- 04
Generate from only the selected passages with citations and abstention rules, and test prompt injection, contradictions, stale content, and missing evidence.
- 05
Monitor retrieval and answer metrics, version index settings, verify refresh and deletion propagation, and promote corpus changes through staging.
Working standard
What good use looks like.
- Preserve source and permission metadata.
- Test retrieval before generation.
- Verify deletions leave the index.
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