Does Your Agent Know Which Retrieved Rule Takes Precedence? A Test Case
jylusdev · reddit · 2026-10-30
A Reddit author proposes a synthetic incident-routing setup to test whether RAG agents grasp rule precedence: a default rule updated today routes alerts to Platform, while an older but still-active billing override routes billing alerts to Payments. Picking the 'newest' record yields the wrong answer.
- The retrieved context should preserve each rule's scope, active status, selection rule, and source IDs
- Disabling the override should flip the answer to Platform
- If the selection rule is missing, the agent should flag unresolved priority rather than invent 'newest wins' or 'most specific wins'
The author asks: should priority be resolved before the model sees the records, or inside its reasoning?
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