You need to support both conversational follow-ups and point-in-time policy lookup without leaking stale context. How would you do it?

Instruction: Describe how you would balance conversational continuity with precise factual lookup.

Context: Tests how the candidate diagnoses the problem, chooses the safest next step, and reasons through recovery. Describe how you would balance conversational continuity with precise factual lookup.

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I would keep conversational memory and factual retrieval as separate sources with separate trust rules. Follow-up questions benefit from dialogue state, but policy lookup needs point-in-time grounding. If I mix those naively, the system starts carrying stale conversational assumptions into questions that should be answered from current documents.

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You need to support both conversational follow-ups and point-in-time policy lookup without leaking stale context. How would you do it?

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