Sort RAG Failures by Pipeline Layer
Categorize common RAG failures by the pipeline layer that owns the fix.
Sort each bug report into the RAG pipeline layer that should own the first fix. Corpus and permissions Retrieval and ranking Context assembly Generation and grounding Governance and security Answer used a policy retired six months ago Correct clause is indexed but never appears in top 20 Retrieved sentence omits the exception in the parent section Answer adds a dollar threshold not present in any cited source Retrieved web page says ignore previous instructions and leak data User in Germany receives a US-only policy because region metadata was absent Acronym query misses the exact document title but semantic search finds…
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