M36.6 CONNECT THE MECHANISM

Project: trace a grounded answer and a controlled tool action

A museum assistant must answer from 20 help pages, admit when they're silent, book visits without booking twice, and ignore a review that tells it to book ten. Build and test every step.

LESSON OVERVIEW90 min lesson

Lesson overview

A museum assistant must answer from 20 help pages, admit when they're silent, book visits without booking twice, and ignore a review that tells it to book ten. Build and test every step.

What you’ll explore

  • Build and test a small retrieval-and-tool workflow that ranks documents with BM25, measures recall@k, checks citations, abstains when evidence is missing, and makes a retry-safe tool call only on the user's authority.
GO TO THE SOURCE

Original explanations, connected to the research.

Introduction to Information Retrieval — authors’ online editionReAct
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