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Teach models to look up relevant information before answering.
Retriever
A retriever is the component that accepts a query and returns relevant knowledge items.
Think of it like
Think of Retriever like a library system: instead of memorizing every book, find the right shelf and bring only the useful pages to the desk.
Real life
Search engines and recommendation systems use ideas related to Retriever.
SRE lens
The agent can call a retriever before asking the LLM to explain an incident.
Remember thisA retriever is the component that accepts a query and returns relevant knowledge items.