RAG retrieval preflight
Recall the retrieval checks to run before trusting or debugging a RAG answer.
Corpus What is the first RAG preflight question? Is the right source actually indexed and eligible for this user and query? If the source is absent or filtered out, generation cannot recover it. Reviewer pressure The answer sounds right. Do we really need to open the retrieved chunks? A reviewer is moving fast and wants to approve the response. Your line Sounding right is not source verification. We need to confirm the answer came from current, scoped evidence. Fluency can hide stale or partial retrieval. It separates answer style from evidence quality. Debug split Retrieval failure vs. generation failure Do…
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