https://www.jamieede.com/tags/prompt-engineering/ Recent content in Prompt Engineering on Jamie Ede Hugo en-us Thu, 21 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.jamieede.com/posts/docs-only-guardrails-empty-rag-retrieval/ Thu, 21 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.jamieede.com/posts/docs-only-guardrails-empty-rag-retrieval/ <p>When <a href="https://www.jamieede.com/astra-chat" >Astra Docs Chat</a> cannot find relevant chunks in Astra DB, the model may still answer from general knowledge: confident, plausible, and sometimes wrong for Astra-specific APIs. The parent post flagged tightening this with a stricter &ldquo;docs only&rdquo; prompt. This post covers practical guardrails at the prompt, retrieval, flow, and UX layers.</p> <p>Context: <a href="https://www.jamieede.com/posts/building-astra-docs-chat-rag-over-datastax-on-langflow-and-cloudflare-pages/" >Building Astra Docs Chat</a> </p> <p>Related: <a href="https://www.jamieede.com/posts/langflow-rag-astra-db-ingest-and-chat-flows/" >Langflow chat flow</a> · <a href="https://www.jamieede.com/posts/streaming-chat-ui-hugo-without-react/" >Streaming chat UI</a> </p> <p><strong>Status:</strong> planned for v2; not deployed in current production chat.</p>