Agentic workflows require reliable multi-query retrieval
Agents may issue dozens of queries per task. Retrieval systems must therefore perform reliably across sequences of machine-generated queries—not just single-shot searches—while maintaining relevance, enforcing permissions at every step, and avoiding latency accumulation.
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Agentic access patterns: Agents may issue dozens of queries while completing one task, reformulating requests and traversing multiple sources. In these multi-hop loops, latency accumulates, relevance can drift, and permissions must be enforced at every step. Retrieval must therefore perform reliably across sequences of machine-generated queries, not only single-shot searches.