04.7.3 · Skill in AI-native engineering
Retrieval (RAG)
Giving a model the right context from your own data.
Retrieval-augmented generation finds relevant documents and adds them to the prompt. Answer quality depends mostly on retrieval quality: chunking, search and ranking. It has to be evaluated like any search system.
Resources
2- articleGo deeperContextual retrieval ↗Anthropic · 2024 · 11 min
A measured improvement to RAG: add context to each chunk before indexing, combine with keyword search and reranking.
- articleGo deeperEffective context engineering for AI agents ↗Anthropic · 2025 · 14 min
Choosing what goes into a model's limited context, and loading the rest only when needed.
Tools
none yetTools for this topic are being researched.