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my agent kept confidently acting on bad retrieved context until I added a self-check step

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been building an agent that leans on RAG for grounding, and for a while it just... trusted whatever came back from retrieval. bad chunk, missing context, didn't matter, agent would still act on it and sound completely sure about it. realized the fix wasn't really about the agent's reasoning at all,…

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  1. 2026-08-20 22:44 · r/AI_Agents
    my agent kept confidently acting on bad retrieved context until I added a self-check step

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