Retrieval observability (waterfall, explorer)

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Index card — the docs below are the canonical explanation; deep-tier pattern pages additionally carry invariants and emulation notes.

Category: AI · Tier: light · Risk: medium — external LLM providers with quota limits

A waterfall/step-timeline view exposes the concurrent-tier timing, provenance paths, and token breakdown behind each nRAG retrieval turn.

When to use: Use when developers or users need to inspect why a RAG answer was grounded the way it was, including per-tier timing and cost.

Docs

• docs/blueprint/ai/nrag-observability.md (GitHub · GitLab)

Code

• src/lib/server/rawrag/queries.ts (GitHub · GitLab)

Proof

• /showcases/ai/retrieval/explorer

Machine-readable record: ai-retrieval-observability in mcp/patterns.registry.json.