Week 12 Master Guide

Week 12: Advanced RAG (`CRAG`), Citation Grounding, Indirect Prompt Injection Defense & Semantic Caching (+ Month 3 Capstone)

Week 12 Daily Breakdown (5 Days)

Day 1

Week 12, Day 1: Corrective RAG (`CRAG`) — Pre-Generation Relevance Grading & Query Rewrite Loops

1 code file(s) • 3 Q&A
Day 2

Week 12, Day 2: Strict Citation Enforcement — Inline `[chunk_id]` Grounding & Verbatim Quote Verification

1 code file(s) • 3 Q&A
Day 3

Week 12, Day 3: RAG Security — Defending Against Indirect Prompt Injection & PII Redaction

1 code file(s) • 3 Q&A
Day 4

Week 12, Day 4: Tenant-Isolated Semantic Caching — Slashing RAG Latency & Cost Safely

1 code file(s) • 3 Q&A
Day 5

Week 12, Days 5–7: Month 3 Capstone — Enterprise Hybrid RAG Engine

1 code file(s) • 0 Q&A

Week 12: Advanced RAG (CRAG), Citation Grounding, Indirect Prompt Injection Defense & Semantic Caching (+ Month 3 Capstone)

Month 3 — Enterprise Hybrid RAG, Vector Databases & Information Retrieval Goal: Harden our Two-Stage Hybrid RAG pipeline for enterprise production with Corrective RAG (CRAG), inline quote-verified citations, Indirect Prompt Injection defenses, PII scrubbing, Tenant-Isolated Semantic Caching, and the full Month 3 Capstone (Enterprise Hybrid RAG Engine).


Weekly Architecture & Daily Breakdown

  • Day 1: Corrective RAG (CRAG) — Pre-Generation Relevance Grading, Query Rewrite Loops & Abstention (day01_corrective_rag_crag_and_self_rag_verification/)
  • Day 2: Strict Citation Enforcement — Inline [doc_id#chunk_id] Grounding & Verbatim Quote Verification (day02_citation_enforcement_inline_grounding_and_abstention/)
  • Day 3: RAG Security — Defending Against Indirect Prompt Injection in Retrieved Docs & PII Redaction (day03_rag_security_indirect_prompt_injection_and_pii_redaction/)
  • Day 4: Tenant-Isolated Semantic Caching — Slashing RAG Latency & Cost Without Cross-Tenant Data Leaks (day04_semantic_caching_and_rag_latency_cost_optimization/)
  • Days 5–7 (Month 3 Capstone): Enterprise Hybrid RAG Engine (day05_to_07_month3_capstone_enterprise_hybrid_rag/ & capstones/month03_enterprise_hybrid_rag/)
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