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RetrievalAugment
Ground responses in retrieved external knowledge
Definition
Mechanism
Before generating a response, the Agent queries an external knowledge store to retrieve material relevant to the current Context. The retrieval follows ContextFirst: the lookup completes before generation begins, and the retrieved material is supplied as context for the response. The store, retrieval method, selection policy, and response process remain caller- or descendant-defined.
Invariants
- Query Before Generate: Retrieval must precede response generation
Risks
Failure modes
Retrieval Poisoning
Malicious or incorrect material returned by the store contaminates responses.
{{context}} Stuffing
Retrieved material exceeds the available Context capacity, causing critical information to be omitted or truncated.
Relationships
Builds on
References
Autonomous Goal-Directed Entity
Infrastructure
Portable execution environment with inherited constraints
Load state before acting
Used by
References
Grounding claims in source
Plan-search-synthesize-report research pipeline