Completely Decoupling Retrieval from Prompts
Banana_Leclerc9 · reddit · 2026-07-08
The author argues that many "prompting issues" are fundamentally context retrieval problems; if the model receives a massive chunk of messy documents, even the best prompts can't save it.
They introduce their solution using Linkly AI combined with MCP: exposing the table of contents to the LLM so the agent first views the outline and then reads precise snippets. This separates the retrieval layer from the prompting layer, resulting in shorter and stricter system prompts.
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