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Should RAG be agentic, or should the agent just decide where to retrieve from?

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I’ve been thinking about where “agentic RAG” actually adds value. A common pattern is to let the agent repeatedly: search → inspect results → decide → search again → ... That makes sense for genuinely multi-hop questions. But with multiple knowledge bases, I’m starting to wonder whether the agent s…

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    Should RAG be agentic, or should the agent just decide where to retrieve from?

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