The Retrieval Run
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Shift briefing · Archive Retrieval Floor
A team needs a maintenance procedure buried in a large archive. A broad query floods the station with duplicates while a narrow query misses key synonyms.
Read before the shift. It tells you what is at stake, never how to do it.
What you practise
Retrieve useful evidence with targeted queries and inspect the quality of returned results.
- Search strategy
- retrieval
- ranking
- recall and precision
Experiment Change one thing, run it again, compare on evidence.
The facility for this shift
3 rooms, 4 stations, two hands.
- 01Archive Retrieval FloorQuery builder · Archive conveyor
- 02Inspection AlcoveRelevance scales
- 03Assembly PortCitation port
Compromised Signal · sealed
Something in this shift will change, and the briefing will not tell you what. You find it from the evidence, or your after-action review shows you where it was.
How the shift is assessed
3 criteria · 0 to 6
Scored from what you did: the evidence you checked, the stations you operated, the artifacts you produced and the gates you passed. The criteria are revealed in your after-action review, not before.
Capabilities evidenced
- PerceptionNotices relevant signals, discrepancies, provenance, and system state.In 13 of 48
- ReasonModels dependencies, constraints, causal paths, and trade-offs.In 22 of 48
- CreationDesigns prompts, workflows, systems, and workable artifacts.In 23 of 48
Chamber I · The Tool
Know what a tool can be trusted with, and check before you rely on it.
Understand AI tools, evidence, context, prompt construction, modality, oversight, privacy and tool choice.
Play Protocol 08 in first person, with the clock running.