# Search Engineering

Search Engineering · Overview

Interactive edition: https://mutapa.dev/search-engineering/

An interactive guide to relevance, retrieval, grounded generation, evaluation, agentic orchestration, and governed access.

## Course

Chapters 1–7 build the search pipeline, Chapters 8–12 add controlled agentic behavior, and Chapters 13–15 govern evidence and external boundaries.

[Open the Course](https://mutapa.dev/search-engineering/course.md)

## Diagnostic Runbook

Find symptoms, inspect likely causes, and choose interventions by pipeline stage.

[Open the Diagnostic Runbook](https://mutapa.dev/search-engineering/reference.md)

## Implementation Guide

Build and evaluate a retrieval-augmented system in plain Python, with each mechanism visible.

[Open the Implementation Guide](https://mutapa.dev/search-engineering/build.md)