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AI Agentic RAG: Retrieval Pipelines That Actually Help Agents
How to design retrieval-augmented agent pipelines that improve grounding without injecting noise.
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- 1The premise
- 2RAG
- 3reranking
- 4query rewriting
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Section 1
The premise
RAG for agents differs from RAG for chat — agents need iterative retrieval, query rewriting between turns, and explicit citations the agent can verify.
What AI does well here
- Rewriting user queries into retrieval-friendly forms
- Citing retrieved passages when prompted to do so
- Triggering follow-up retrievals when initial results are thin
- Distinguishing between retrieved facts and its own claims
What AI cannot do
- Detect when retrieved content is outdated or contradicted by other sources
- Decide on its own how many retrieval rounds are enough
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