System area
AI Engineering
Retrieval, context, evaluation, and production boundaries treated as engineering decisions.
Scope
Where it helps
Use this area when an AI feature needs dependable context, explicit evaluation, and integration constraints.
Inquiry
Questions LucyAI asks
- What information must be retrieved?
- How should context be represented and placed?
- Which evaluation distinguishes useful behavior from plausible output?
Outputs
Artifact ledger
- Context architecture
- Retrieval decision record
- Evaluation boundary map
Boundaries
Control ledger
- Source provenance
- Failure-mode review
- Task-specific evaluation
Evidence
Source basis
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Historical retrieval-augmented generation research
- Lost in the Middle
Scoped long-context findings
- Introducing Contextual Retrieval
Vendor first-party retrieval experiment