Lesson 8 of 8
Final Knowledge Assistant
Combine ingestion, chunking, retrieval, reranking and grounded answering into one inspectable assistant.
Active reading
Understand the idea
Keep source metadata with every chunk, show citations in the answer and define a fallback when evidence is weak.
Example
User question → retrieve 8 chunks → rerank to 3 → answer with citations → say insufficient evidence if confidence is low.
Practice
Apply this lesson to one real task you already have, then write down how you would verify the result.
Common mistake
Hiding retrieval results so developers cannot inspect why the assistant answered incorrectly.
Key takeaway
A trustworthy knowledge assistant makes its evidence path visible.