Skip to course content
Free RAG fundamentals course

Introduction to RAG and Knowledge Assistants

Module 06

Missing Answers and Refusal Behavior

By the end of this module you can design what happens when the answer is not in the documents - a clear refusal beats a fluent guess, and it has to be built deliberately.

Units

  1. Unit 06.00: Designing the answer that says no
  2. Unit 06.01: Not in the documents versus not retrieved
  3. Unit 06.02: Partial answers and how to bound them
  4. Unit 06.03: Testing refusal on purpose
  5. Unit 06.04: Why a fluent guess is the expensive failure

Module work