Use Retrieval Auditing to Make Agents Aware of Gaps
thisguyknowsai · x · 2026-07-11
This continues with Technique 8: Retrieval Auditing.
The core practice is to record confidence and reasons for each retrieval decision, not just for debugging, but so the model/agent itself can see its retrieval trajectory. This allows the model to determine, 'Although I retrieved relevant chunks, they only partially answered the question; I need to search again.'
The author emphasizes that such a design—letting the system know what it retrieved and what it lacks—makes retrieval agents more proactive in supplementing context.
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