Retrieval, Ranking, and Data Pipelines
The complete concept, practice, assessment, transfer, and source-routing path is available.
Selective Reading Rule
The guide is the primary teacher. Full-book reading is not required; use the module reading guide and linked primary sources only to resolve a named question or deepen a decision.
Competency
Build provenance-aware ingestion, indexing, retrieval, reranking, freshness, and deletion paths; evaluate retrieval separately from generation.
Required Evidence
- data-lineage map
- retrieval benchmark
- deletion test
- end-to-end attribution trace
Completion Gate
Explain the underlying mechanism, reproduce the result from a clean environment, evaluate at least one rejected alternative, and defend the important failure modes without relying on generated prose.
Source Policy
Use official specifications, primary research, and curated local book routes selectively. The completed guide must remain the primary teacher.