#rag pipeline

A RAG bot is only as current as its last ingest, and re-embedding the whole corpus nightly pays for thousands of unchanged documents to pick up a handful of edits. This is the incremental alternative: hash to detect changes, upsert by stable chunk IDs, tombstone deletes, and

Muhammad Qasim Hammad·September 2, 2026·8 min

Classic RAG runs 1 fixed retrieval pass and hopes the chunks are right. Agentic RAG puts a model in charge of the search itself: rewriting queries, grading what came back, and retrying until the evidence covers the question. This is the mechanism behind the loop, the modeled 2

Muhammad Qasim Hammad·September 1, 2026·9 min