RAG Instruction Boundary

RAG Instruction Boundary is a ai policy boundary that separates durable system instructions from user-provided content for retrieval-augmented generation pipelines. It uses role labels, precedence rules, and prompt assembly checks so teams can avoid instruction confusion while keeping evidence, reliability, and public-safe operational boundaries clear.

“The AI platform team used RAG Instruction Boundary when the retriever mixed old and new documents, so the team could avoid instruction confusion before the agent workflow reached production.”