AgentforceAdvancedhallucinationknowledgegrounding
Troubleshoot agent hallucinating product features not in knowledge base
Real World Scenario
Sales support agent tells customers a SKU supports feature never shipped; grounding enabled but responses still invent specifications.
Expected Answer
• Verify retrieval returns chunks before answer generation with citation requirement
• System prompt instructs answer only from retrieved context or explicit uncertainty
• Block speculative language for product specs via output guardrails
• Evaluate retrieval recall — missing docs cause hallucination fill-in
• Human feedback loop flagging incorrect answers to content team
• Temperature and model settings conservative for factual domains
• A/B test grounded vs ungrounded in staging with golden questions
Follow-Up Questions & Answers
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Direct answer: Verify retrieval returns chunks before answer generation with citation requirement Also consider: System prompt instructs answer only from retrieved context or explicit uncertainty In practice: Block speculative language for product specs via output guardrails Optimize for scale and operational observability.
Architect Perspective
Hallucination is often retrieval failure disguised — fix content and retrieval before blaming model.