What Is RAG?
A practical introduction to retrieval-augmented generation: how evidence reaches a model, how it can fail, and what to check.
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Connecting the right information to intelligent systems.
Related skills
- Vector search
- RAG
- Contextual retrieval
- Embeddings
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Hybrid RAG
Combine lexical and vector rankings while preserving source content; an executable fusion example and explicit evaluation boundaries.
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Contextual RAG
How adding document context to chunks can improve retrieval, what Anthropic actually measured, and how to evaluate the tradeoffs.
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Harnessing Vectors and Contextual Retrieval in AI Pipelines
How lexical search, vectors, and contextual retrieval can help find evidence, and why local hosting does not guarantee privacy.
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Context Engineering
typedef's data context layer — a graph of relationships over the data estate, computed once on commit, with provenance and confidence on the edges.
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