Debug a Hallucinated Policy Answer
Debug a hallucinated RAG answer by tracing claim support, retrieval, and source coverage.
Policy failure The HR bot says the home-office monitor allowance is 400 dollars. The current policy says 250 dollars, and employees are already filing claims from the wrong answer. A polished answer is not enough. You need to locate whether the failure was generation, retrieval, or stale source data. Claim -> context -> corpus Walk backward from the claim A RAG hallucination is easiest to debug by following the answer claim back through the retrieved context and then into the source collection. Bad shortcut Rewrite the prompt immediately The fix lands in the layer that failed first. Do not fix…
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