Case 08 · Pattern

RAG Knowledge Platform

A RAG knowledge platform turns repositories, runbooks, architecture notes, and project metadata into retrievable engineering context with citations and safer answer boundaries.

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Pattern case — proof lives next door.

Honest scope

No dedicated repository, and the AI Infra Control Plane does not implement RAG. This page documents the retrieval / citation pattern behind the site assistant; the policy, identity and audit layer a governed AI platform needs is proved in the AI Infra Control Plane.

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How it works

From curated corpus to a cited answer.

RAG Knowledge Platform by Andrey Lesnikov — export, index, retrieve, and cite engineering context for the AI Twin and operator questions.

Architecture diagram of the RAG Knowledge Platform: sources, RAG plane, consumers, quality controls
RAG plane first: curate → index → retrieve → cite, with local fallback.
Animated RAG lifecycle: Curate, Index, Retrieve, Cite
Lifecycle — Curate → Index → Retrieve → Cite
  1. 01

    Curate the export

    Repos, cases, runbooks, and recognition data become structured markdown — quality over dumping every chat note.

  2. 02

    Index for retrieval

    Chunking, embeddings, and freshness rules keep the corpus small enough to trust and large enough to answer.

  3. 03

    Retrieve with bounds

    Top-k retrieval stays inside public access boundaries so answers do not invent private context.

  4. 04

    Cite and answer

    Responses carry source links so conference and site assistants can be checked, not just believed.

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Evidence

From problem to proof.

How the system is framed, operated, and proven — not a slide deck summary.

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Problem

Engineering knowledge usually lives across GitHub repositories, runbooks, tickets, docs, and chat history. A generic assistant cannot answer infrastructure questions reliably without curated context.

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Architecture

The platform exports structured markdown, project metadata, case studies, and recognition data into retrieval-ready documents with citations and curated local fallbacks.

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Trade-offs

RAG quality depends on curation, chunking, freshness, and access boundaries. A smaller high-quality knowledge base is more useful than dumping every note into embeddings.

Constraints

Source freshness, citation quality, chunking, access boundaries, hallucination control, and explainable answers.

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