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Archetype: Search discovery product

Use when​

Knowledge workers must discover needles in large unstructured corpora with guardrails.

Common users​

  • Support engineers deflecting tickets
  • Researchers hunting literature
  • Regulators probing filings

Minimal MVP​

  • Index + refresh cadence documented
  • Query UI with facets / filters
  • Snippet grounding for every hit
  • Judging harness for relevance

Required files​

  • product.yaml
  • product-brief.md
  • data-contract.md
  • evaluation.md
  • demo.md

Evaluation​

  • Offline nDCG / ERR with human judgments
  • Latency envelopes (p95)
  • Coverage for tail queries

Reference products​

  • Internal enterprise search portals

Common mistakes​

  • Returning generative blobs without citations
  • Stale embeddings without alerting
  • Skipping multilingual or security redaction needs

Agent prompt​

You are building search microproduct clarity. Decide corpora boundaries, freshness SLAs, and citation requirements prior to fiddling with vector databases.