Production project

Production RAG Blueprint

Specify an evidence-carrying RAG system from source onboarding and indexing through retrieval citations evaluation and operations.

intermediate
18 hours4 milestones
A production AI project moving from architecture decisions through evaluation into monitored deployment.

Project evidence

Capstone

0/4 milestones · rubric 0% · pass 75%

evidence required
checklist required
critical criteria open
in progress

Corpus contract

architecture decision

A source inventory with owners permissions freshness parsing and deletion requirements.

Acceptance criteria

  • Every source class has identity ownership and update semantics
  • Access rules survive chunking and indexing

Use: context · drivers · decision · alternatives · consequences · risks · validation · rollback · evidence

Retrieval blueprint

system design

An ingestion search reranking and context assembly design with tunable parameters.

Acceptance criteria

  • Candidate retrieval and reranking are evaluated separately
  • Context budgets and abstention behavior are explicit

Use: context · drivers · decision · alternatives · consequences · risks · validation · rollback · evidence

RAG evaluation system

evaluation

A dataset and gate covering retrieval recall citation support usefulness refusal latency and cost.

Acceptance criteria

  • Cases represent corpus types roles and known failures
  • Release gates include slice-level and severity criteria

Use: context · drivers · decision · alternatives · consequences · risks · validation · rollback · evidence

RAG operations

operations

Monitoring incident replay reindex rollback and source deletion procedures.

Acceptance criteria

  • Traces separate ingestion retrieval reranking and generation
  • Incidents become versioned regression cases

Use: context · drivers · decision · alternatives · consequences · risks · validation · rollback · evidence

Criterion-level self-assessment

Project rubric

Architecture coherence

Architecture coherence for Production RAG Blueprint is explicit, testable, and connected to submitted evidence. · weight 20%

0/4

Current level: Missing or contradicted by the submitted evidence.

Implementation evidence

Implementation evidence for Production RAG Blueprint is explicit, testable, and connected to submitted evidence. · weight 15%

0/4

Current level: Missing or contradicted by the submitted evidence.

Evaluation quality

critical

Evaluation quality for Production RAG Blueprint is explicit, testable, and connected to submitted evidence. · weight 20%

0/4

Current level: Missing or contradicted by the submitted evidence.

Operational readiness

critical

Operational readiness for Production RAG Blueprint is explicit, testable, and connected to submitted evidence. · weight 15%

0/4

Current level: Missing or contradicted by the submitted evidence.

Security and privacy

critical

Security and privacy for Production RAG Blueprint is explicit, testable, and connected to submitted evidence. · weight 20%

0/4

Current level: Missing or contradicted by the submitted evidence.

Decision communication

Decision communication for Production RAG Blueprint is explicit, testable, and connected to submitted evidence. · weight 10%

0/4

Current level: Missing or contradicted by the submitted evidence.

Portable evidence

Attach project records

Text, HTTPS links, repository paths, and imported Markdown/JSON/text are stored locally and included in exports.

Project review checklist

Unresolved risks

One risk per line. A passing score does not erase open risk.

Connected concepts

Reference architectures

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