{"slug":"agentic-rag","title":"agentic-rag","summary":"Use when building self-correcting retrieval systems for AI agents. Keywords: RAG, retrieval, Corrective RAG, Self-RAG, query decomposition, reranking, hallucination, grounding.","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-10-05T21:53:03.252161Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/VoDaiLocz/kilo-kit-mcp","stars":27,"forks":3,"license":"Apache-2.0","updatedAt":"2026-09-13T09:11:19Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<h2>name: \"agentic-rag\"\ndescription: &gt;-\nUse when building self-correcting retrieval systems for AI agents. Keywords: RAG, retrieval, Corrective RAG, Self-RAG, query decomposition, reranking, hallucination, grounding.</h2>\n<h1>Agentic RAG - Self-Correcting Retrieval</h1>\n<h2>Overview</h2>\n<p>Agentic RAG evolves beyond static information retrieval by embedding autonomous agents within the retrieval and generation pipeline. Unlike \"Naive RAG\" which assumes a direct mapping from query to document chunk, Agentic RAG employs iterative reasoning, self-correction, and multi-step workflows to ensure answers are grounded, accurate, and comprehensive. It treats retrieval as a dynamic task-oriented process.</p>\n<h2>When To Use</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>When dealing with multi-hop questions requiring information synthesis from disparate sources.</li>\n<li>When existing RAG pipelines suffer from high hallucination rates or low retrieval precision.</li>\n<li>When the domain requires \"Codebase RAG\" that understands syntax, imports, and symbol definitions rather than just text semantic similarity.</li>\n<li>When you need systems that can autonomously fall back to web search or tool execution when internal knowledge is insufficient.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Architecture Patterns</h2>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Query Decomposition &amp; Routing</strong>: Breaking down complex, high-level questions into focused sub-queries. Agents route these sub-queries to appropriate specialized indexes (e.g., code-index, docs-index, general-web).</li>\n<li><strong>Hybrid Retrieval + RRF</strong>: Combining lexical search (BM25 for acronyms/technical IDs) with dense embedding search (vector similarity), merged using Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF) to boost ranking robustness.</li>\n<li><strong>Corrective RAG (CRAG)</strong>: Implementing a relevance grader that evaluates retrieved docs. If quality is low, the agent triggers a fallback workflow (e.g., web search, re-phrasing).</li>\n<li><strong>Self-RAG Reflection Loops</strong>: Generation output is passed through an evaluator agent that checks for groundedness and relevance. If it fails, the system triggers a re-retrieval or re-generation cycle.</li>\n<li><strong>Codebase RAG (AST-aware)</strong>: Rather than naive chunking, use AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) parsing to extract class/function definitions and method signatures, ensuring the retriever captures the structural context of the codebase.</li>\n</ol>\n<h2>Implementation Workflow</h2>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Data Ingestion</strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Parse documents with layout-aware tools.</li>\n<li>For code: extract symbols, classes, and dependencies using tree-sitter.</li>\n<li>Generate embeddings using multi-modal or code-specialized models (e.g., text-embedding-3-large).</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><strong>Retrieval</strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Apply hybrid search (BM25 + Vectors).</li>\n<li>Use cross-encoder rerankers (e.g., Cohere Rerank, BGE-Reranker) to refine the top-k results.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><strong>Agentic Processing</strong>:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Decomposition Phase</strong>: Use LLM to split user query into atomic tasks.</li>\n<li><strong>Retrieval Phase</strong>: Fetch data for each task independently.</li>\n<li><strong>Grading Phase</strong>: Use a \"Critic\" agent to grade relevance/faithfulness.</li>\n<li><strong>Generation Phase</strong>: Synthesize the answer.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><strong>Validation</strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Hallucination Detection: Compare generation against original retrieved contexts using NLI (Natural Language Inference) models or LLM-as-a-judge.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ol>\n<h2>Quality Gates</h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Grounding Gate</strong>: Reject any answer where the supporting evidence score is below a predefined threshold (e.g., 0.8 on a 0-1 scale).</li>\n<li><strong>Retrieval Quality Gate</strong>: If all retrieved segments have low relevance scores, block generation and trigger an automated refinement or search process.</li>\n<li><strong>Syntactic Integrity Gate (Code RAG)</strong>: Verify that retrieved code snippets can be resolved/linked back to real codebase identifiers.</li>\n<li><strong>Confidence Scoring</strong>: Require agents to output a confidence score; if low, provide a disclaimer or suggest human intervention.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>References</h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15884\">CRAG (Corrective RAG)</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11511\">Self-RAG: Learning to Retrieve, Generate, and Critique</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://plg.uwaterloo.ca/%7Egvcormac/cormacksigir09-rrf.pdf\">Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF)</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://docs.llamaindex.ai/\">Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation</a></li>\n</ul>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>Note</p>\n<p>Agentic RAG introduces latency overhead. Always measure RTT (Round Trip Time) during the evaluation phase to ensure acceptable UX.</p>\n</div>\n<div>\n<p>Tip</p>\n<p>For codebase RAG, prefer tool-based indexing (e.g., repomix) over raw file chunking to preserve module boundaries.</p>\n</div>\n<div>\n<p>Warning</p>\n<p>Ensure PI-masking is performed before indexing private repositories, especially when using third-party embedding providers.</p>\n</div>\n","files":[{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":4472,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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