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Context-sensitive interface to long-term memory; selects what is salient to the current step rather than dumping the entire store into the prompt. Problem addressed: Inefficient retrieval — the failure mode of either flooding the prompt or missing the relevant fragment. Stabilization: When the knowledge base grows beyond a few pages and naive similarity sear…
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Theoretical construct: explains a term, principle, or mental model.
What organizes, connects, or makes decisions possible.
A retriever finds information relevant to a query in a knowledge source.
Retrievers grew out of information-retrieval research, which finds query-relevant results in document collections. In modern language-model systems, this pattern became a foundation of retrieval-augmented generation: a system first fetches evidence and then provides it to a model.
Imagine a librarian: she reads the question, finds relevant pages, and puts them on the writer's desk. She does not write the answer herself, but her selection shapes what the writer can rely on.
The search question used to find relevant content.
Finding relevant documents, passages, or records.
Retrieved content that can support a subsequent answer.
A retriever makes knowledge stores usable for answers and can improve freshness and traceability. Its limit is selection: missing, poorly indexed, or misranked sources remain unseen.
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These sources establish the term and its professional meaning.
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