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Glossary: AI System Design

ACL (access list)

Also written: ACL, ACLs, access list

A list of which users or roles may read a document. In staff document Q&A each chunk carries its document's ACL, and search filters by it so shop staff never get contract text.

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Hybrid searchLeast privilegeRAG (retrieval-augmented generation)