TLDR Tech / Data
The Question Is the Contract
Competency questions are explicit, domain-specific queries that a system must answer. Systems built without first defining and maintaining these questions often yield inaccurate or incomplete results, because architectural decisions default to implicit assumptions rather than clear requirements. Leveraging competency questions provides a rigorous, testable framework that guides schema design, validates coverage, and ensures traceable, actionable answers in everything from vector databases and knowledge graphs to retrieval-augmented generation pipelines.
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