When you push a new chunking strategy, retrieval might feel snappier. The demo might look great. But unless you’re systematically evaluating, you might be missing silent regressions on the hard queries that actually matter.
No vibes check catches everything. The queries that feel fast are the easy ones. The hard ones are quietly getting worse.
This dispatch walks through the exact harness setup we’re building: the metrics we track (context precision, context recall, faithfulness, answer relevance), the test query set design, and the CI hook that will gate every retrieval change.
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