The outcome

Return citation-ready answers from an authorized corpus with measurable retrieval and answer support.

Step by step

A workflow you can repeat.

  1. 01

    Define source ownership, user permissions, location and retention requirements, expected questions, citations, and an unanswerable-aware benchmark.

  2. 02

    Choose the RAG Engine or approved retrieval components, configure least-privilege identities and encryption, and ingest a small versioned corpus.

  3. 03

    Preserve document IDs and permissions through parsing and chunking, then test retrieval recall and access filtering before generation.

  4. 04

    Generate from only the selected passages with citations and abstention rules, and test prompt injection, contradictions, stale content, and missing evidence.

  5. 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.

Official references

Check the current product documentation.