Before You Rebuild Your RAG Pipeline, Try an Agent

If your RAG system keeps giving incomplete answers, try going fully agentic. I’m not saying retrieval-augmented generation is useless. It can make a large collection of documents cheap and fast enough to query. But if you have some tokens to burn and your corpus isn’t massive, it may be better to let an agent search the original documents itself. I ran into this with a public-facing technical wiki. The articles are dense. They have long tables, code samples, configuration details, and links to many related pages. A useful answer might depend on a warning above a table, one row in the table, and an example farther down the page. ...

2026-09-15 · 4 min · Tyler Collins