RFR-FA3C48BB — Create a shared benchmark and decision threshold: Recommendation

Research opportunity

Create a shared benchmark and decision threshold for the claims or recommendations in “Recommendation.”

Background

The originating artifact is accepted by the repository publishing inventory with status “active (inferred from publishable inventory).” Its Recommendation section provides the immediate evidence boundary.

Evidence trace

• Origin document: knowledge-platform/search-architecture.md
• Section: Recommendation
• Specific assumption challenged: The source's treatment in “Recommendation” is sufficiently supported for its intended scope.
• Supporting evidence excerpt: “Use hybrid retrieval: - Metadata filters for precision - BM25 or equivalent lexical search for exact terminology - Embedding search for semantic recall - Graph traversal for concept-aware expansion and citation paths”
• Reason this opportunity exists: How competing methods or implementations compare on a common corpus with explicit utility, safety, and cost thresholds.

Unknowns

• How competing methods or implementations compare on a common corpus with explicit utility, safety, and cost thresholds.

Dependencies

• RFR-903C0F3D

Suggested REP and methodology

• Suggested REP: REP-RECOMMENDATION-BENCHMARK
• Methodology: Curate representative cases, blind ground truth where possible, define baselines and uncertainty-aware metrics, and run reproducible benchmark evaluations.
• Expected outputs: Versioned benchmark, baseline implementations, scoring harness, datasheet, and adoption decision rule.
• Success criteria: Independent teams can reproduce scores and the benchmark discriminates meaningful quality differences without rewarding proxy gaming.
• Recommended agent: research-engineering-agent
• Estimated effort: Medium
• Expected knowledge gained: How competing methods or implementations compare on a common corpus with explicit utility, safety, and cost thresholds.

Evaluation

Confidence in this opportunity: moderate. Status: Open.