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Agentic Retrieval Overview

Agentic retrieval transforms complex user questions into focused subqueries, executes them in parallel, and returns a comprehensive, agent-optimized response.

Key Features

  • LLM Query Planning: Automatically decomposes complex questions
  • Parallel Execution: Runs multiple searches simultaneously
  • Multi-Source: Queries indexed and remote knowledge sources
  • Semantic Reranking: Promotes most relevant results
  • Agent-Optimized Response: Structured output for downstream consumption

Architecture

Knowledge Base orchestrates the entire pipeline, connecting to LLMs for planning and knowledge sources for retrieval.

When to Use

  • Complex multi-part questions
  • Agent-to-agent workflows
  • RAG applications requiring high-quality grounding
  • Multi-source data scenarios
See Agentic Retrieval Concepts for detailed information.

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