Retrieve, then read

Learn in five minutes

• Search returns candidates. Reading decides.
• The answer should quote or point at the passage.
• If two passages disagree, say so.
• Do not blend them into a third fact.
• The reader is the person who must trust the quote.

A contact-center style note and a policy note can disagree about a refund. The grounded reply names both and does not invent a compromise number.

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Two disagreeing notes

1. Note A: the example window is 7 days.
2. Note B: the example window is 14 days.
3. The reply says the notes disagree and quotes both.
4. It does not output 10 as a compromise.

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Quiz

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Ecosystem

Candidate

A passage the search thought might help. It is not yet the answer.

Sisters: Search indexes, Embeddings, Rerankers, Citations.

A voice agent and a chat agent can share the same note index.

The capstone answers only from notes you are allowed to use.

Config

• Write the goal in one sentence.
• Name the input and the allowed output.
• Save the trace next to the result.

Troubleshooting

• The answer looks fluent and is wrong. Check whether a source passage actually contains the claim.
• The loop never stops. Set a step cap and stop when the tool result repeats.

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