Nitish Prasad

Grounded retrieval / guardrails / release logic

RAG Pipeline with Guardrails

The vector baseline for the enterprise knowledge layer: grounded answers, safety checks, benchmark traces, and release gates connected in one production-minded system. A separate implemented GraphRAG layer now tests when relationship traversal earns its extra complexity.

Local executionCommitted corpus and 24-case evaluation
Domains
2 corpora
Eval cases
24
Verdict
PASS
Guardrails
4 classes
Decision
Connect citations, confidence, input/output guardrails, and evaluation traces in one pipeline.
Why
Retrieval accuracy alone cannot support a release decision or explain a failure.
Result
A 24-case, dual-domain baseline with four guardrail classes and an explicit PASS verdict.
Quick readRelease discipline

Retrieval quality alone does not make a feature shippable.

A grounded answer can still be risky, misleading, or hard to defend. The useful product question is whether the system can produce grounded answers, flag unsafe behavior, and explain why a release should move forward or stop.

Dual-domain retrieval

Travel workflows and seller-intelligence scenarios test the same pipeline against different contexts.

Pre and post guardrails

Prompt injection, PII, toxicity, and groundedness are checked around the answer flow.

Traceable outputs

Citations, confidence, and verdict reasons make the answer defensible.

Release gate

Policy thresholds turn raw eval output into a launch-review decision.

SystemFlow

From a question to a supported answer.

Corpus

Domain content

Travel and seller workflow knowledge bases.

Retrieval

Grounding

Relevant context is selected before synthesis.

Guardrails

Risk checks

Inputs and outputs are checked before release.

Eval

Decision

Reports and gates produce PASS, WARN, or BLOCK.

Inspect the implemented GraphRAG comparison
Test reportsLocal execution

Try retrieval, citations, and abstention.

Ask a question of the sample travel or seller corpus. The browser ranks passages, extracts an answer, and shows its citations. An unsupported question returns an abstention. This lab runs locally without a model provider.