Triage agents turn documents into structured, annotated files — stop feeding LLMs a pile of PDFs

KarlMuth · x · 2026-09-03

KarlMuth shows how the two triage agents in his research workflow convert each document into a file (CSV, JSONL, etc.) with fields plus decoration/annotation so each item is actually useful, rather than dumping a PDF or plaintext string into a table. He argues the common complaint "I gave it stuff, but it didn't use stuff" usually stems from unstructured inputs — a pile of PDFs is not the structured library he describes.

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