Design a product docs assistant that can blend search, summarization, and escalation.

Instruction: Describe a product documentation assistant that answers easy questions and escalates the rest cleanly.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can design a practical architecture and explain the main tradeoffs. Describe a product documentation assistant that answers easy questions and escalates the rest cleanly.

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I would treat this as three jobs that share a knowledge layer: search, grounded summarization, and escalation. Users do not always know which one they need, so the system should route flexibly while keeping the evidence path visible.

The shared layer would handle ingestion, retrieval, versioning, and permissions across...

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