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COMPEL Glossary / agentic-rag
Agentic RAG
A retrieval pattern in which the agent decides — within its loop — when and what to retrieve, rather than a retrieval step running before generation as in naive RAG.
What this means in practice
Yields higher-quality answers on complex queries but trades away predictable cost and latency; multi-hop query governance becomes harder.
Synonyms
agent-driven RAG , dynamic RAG
See also
- Naive RAG — The baseline retrieval-augmented-generation pattern: a single retrieval step returns the top-k chunks by vector similarity, and those chunks are concatenated into the prompt for generation.
- Agent loop — The iterative pattern in which a model plans, calls tools, observes the results, and replans — continuing until a goal is met, an iteration budget is exhausted, or a human intervenes.
- Tool use / function calling — A prompt pattern authorizing the model to request named functions with structured arguments — searching the web, reading a database, calling a calculator, triggering an API — rather than generating all answers from its weights.