[pjm331]

Yeah I’ve had a lot of success with agentic search against a database.

The way I think of it, the main characteristic of agentic search is just that the agent can execute many types of adhoc queries

It’s not about a file system

As I understood it early RAG systems were all about performing that search for the agent - that’s what makes that approach “non agentic”

But when I have a database that has both embeddings and full text and you can query against both of those things and I let the agent execute whatever types of queries it wants - that’s “agentic search” in my book

[darkteflon]

Absolutely, agentic search is much more robust to the specific implementation details of your search setup (data quality issues, too) than the early one-shot approaches were. Anyone watching Claude Code work can see this for themselves.