Debug a Wrong Answer Through the RAG Triad
Apply a triad-based decision path to isolate the cause of a RAG answer failure.
Incident The payroll assistant gave a contractor eligibility answer that conflicts with the bonus-plan appendix. The first decision is where the failure lives; otherwise the team will change several layers and learn nothing. RAGAS triad Corpus -> Context -> Faithful answer Move from evidence availability to retrieval quality to answer grounding. Each step eliminates a wrong fix. React Raise top-k and hope One failure owner, one fix, one regression test. A RAG failure is solved fastest when each component is cleared or implicated in sequence. 01 Corpus 02 Retrieval 03 Grounding Corpus check Is evidence available?
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