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Retrieval

RAG pipeline design

Build retrieval-augmented generation pipelines with grounding and citations.

Target proficiency: Applied

Course outcomes

  • AIN 401 CO2

    Apply prompt, context and retrieval (RAG) engineering, including structured outputs and tool calling, to build LLM features on a cloud AI platform or open-weight stack.

  • AIN 401 CO3

    Design an AI-native system architecture — retrieval, agents, tools, memory and guardrails — through an AI-DLC gated workflow from Inception to Construction.

  • AI 101 CO4

    Build and test a web or desktop AI application that uses an open model served locally by Ollama, including retrieval over documents and safe tool use.

  • MST 501 CO3

    Demonstrate Knowledge, Memory & Retrieval competence: complete the Day 31–45 builds, explain the underlying theory, and defend the phase artefact under live questioning.

  • MST 502 CO2

    Demonstrate Core Building · the single agent competence: complete the Day 16–30 builds, explain the underlying theory, and defend the phase artefact under live questioning.

  • MST 504 CO3

    Demonstrate Integration & graphs — agents, knowledge graphs, evals competence: complete the Day 16–23 builds, explain the underlying theory, and defend the phase artefact under live questioning.

  • MST 505 CO2

    Demonstrate Retrieval & Knowledge Context competence: complete the Day 16–30 builds, explain the underlying theory, and defend the phase artefact under live questioning.

  • MST 507 CO3

    Demonstrate Orchestration, Memory & Retrieval competence: complete the Day 31–45 builds, explain the underlying theory, and defend the phase artefact under live questioning.

  • MST 508 CO3

    Demonstrate Retrieval, RAG & Agents competence: complete the Day 31–45 builds, explain the underlying theory, and defend the phase artefact under live questioning.

  • MST 509 CO5

    Demonstrate AI Control Plane competence: complete the Day 61–75 builds, explain the underlying theory, and defend the phase artefact under live questioning.

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