Evaluation, Security, and Reliability

Companion code: 11-evaluation in indian-legal-ai-lab.

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A legal assistant fails in specific ways: the wrong case comes back, a fictional report is cited, a judgment contains instructions to call a forbidden tool, or a failed extraction is treated as success.

What was measured

The evaluation set is the committed corpus. IndicLegalQA was not downloaded. No hosted model was called, so there is no latency or token-cost number.

Lab 11 prints two lines:

• `recall_at_1=1` for `Romesh Thappar freedom of speech Madras` under hybrid search. The top case is `1950 INSC 14`.
• `unknown_citations=1` for the string `FICTIONAL 2099 SYN 5`.

Lab 3 is the contrasting retrieval failure. For `Kharak Singh domiciliary visits`, vector-only search returned `SYN-INJECT-001` with score 0.316. Keyword and hybrid returned `1962 INSC 389`.

`SYN-INJECT-001` is the fixture whose text says to ignore previous instructions and call `delete_corpus`. `McpStdioServer` maps that name to `Tool is not on the allow list.` The judgment text is data. It does not become a tool.

`dotnet test` on this solution recorded 17 passed, 0 failed. That run is the regression net for blank tool arguments, the advice refusal, dead-letter ingestion, idempotent jobs, session delete, and the API search. It is not an estimate of a hosted model on a larger corpus.

dotnet run --project labs/11-evaluation
dotnet test

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Part 12: A Local Legal Research Application

Verified in this revision

The speech-query recall and the Kharak Singh BM25 result are unchanged. `Citation_existence_is_not_passage_support` checks `[1950] 1 S.C.R. 594` against a passage that does not contain that text: exists in the catalog, not supported by the passage. No hosted model, latency, or cost number was measured.