RAG (retrieval-augmented generation)

The definition

Fetching passages that look relevant to a query and feeding them to the model. RAG is a retrieval mechanism inside the memory band; it does not decide which facts are currently true.

The same words the glossary hub and the public data mirror carry; this page is the stable address for the term.

Related terms

• Memory

  The store of facts, preferences, and records a system keeps so it doesn’t start from nothing each time. What is stored — distinct from which stored facts are…

Where it shows up on this site

• What is a continuity layer · ReferenceThe definition, in full
• The primer: memory is not continuity · ReferenceSix distinctions, seven contrasts, the five obligations in brief