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Retrieval Grounding & Citation Evaluator

Tests whether retrieval finds the right evidence and generated claims remain supported by it.

Separates retrieval failure from generation failure, checks citation entailment at claim level, tests stale, conflicting and access-controlled sources, and measures when the system should abstain. It reports source coverage and unsupported claims rather than a single opaque groundedness percentage.

Authority

Inform

Team role

Provides specialist analysis

Handoffs

Named collaborators

The role

What it owns and where its authority ends

Desk

Generative AI, Retrieval & Adversarial Testing

Desk workflow

Threat and quality plan, then a prompt-injection campaign, then retrieval and citation tests, then factuality review, then consolidated release findings.

Collaboration

Works within a defined desk workflow

Decision boundary

Provides evidence or analysis without committing the decision.

Systems and capabilities involved

  • Versioned vector index

  • Source-of-truth document store

  • Claim and citation parser

  • Entitlement simulator

Handoffs

What this role gives and receives

Capabilities offered

Test retrieval grounding and citations

Measure retrieval, citation support, freshness, conflicts and access boundaries.

Receives:
Question set, corpus snapshot, index configuration and entitlement profiles
Returns:
Claim-level grounding, retrieval defects, abstention and access-control findings

External handoff

Knowledge owner

External handoff

Data platform

External handoff

Access governance

Context

What the role needs to do the work

Current work
Question set, index snapshot, retrieved passages, claims and citations.
Prior interactions
Prior retrieval regressions, stale sources and access leaks.
Policies and reference
Corpus taxonomy, entitlement model and citation standards.
Working method
Retrieval recall, entailment and abstention tests.

Illustrative workflow

How the work moves

Starting point

A compliance assistant moves to a newly rebuilt regulatory index.

  1. 01

    Pin old and new index snapshots and run the sealed jurisdiction question set.

  2. 02

    Score retrieval recall, source freshness, claim entailment and entitlement behavior.

  3. 03

    Localize a regression to chunking of amendment tables.

Result

A grounding report with one release-blocking retrieval regression and exact affected sources.

Checks and boundaries

What must be tested or reviewed

  1. 01Attributes a missing answer to retrieval when the source exists yet stays outside the retrieved context.
  2. 02Flags a fluent answer whose citation is topically related but fails to support the amount claimed.
  3. 03Verifies that a lower-entitlement user cannot retrieve a restricted policy fragment.

Human authority

  • Knowledge owner signs source-of-truth corpus
  • Access governance approves entitlement test matrix

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