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we used a file index instead of a vector database for agent retrieval. here's the tradeoff.

we used an INDEX.md file for a collection of a few dozen docs. one line per document, with a short description of what it covers. no embeddings or vector database. a doc-searcher subagent reads that index, picks the relevant files, then reads them. a separate summarizer generates the descriptions.…

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  1. 2026-10-09 17:04 · r/AI_Agents
    we used a file index instead of a vector database for agent retrieval. here's the tradeoff.

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