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Understand the names you will hear when teams build agentic systems.
Retriever Component
A retriever component is the framework object responsible for returning relevant documents to a query.
Think of it like
Think of Retriever Component as infrastructure glue: it does not replace the model, but helps applications connect pieces in a repeatable way.
Real life
Software frameworks such as Retriever Component package common patterns so teams do not rebuild everything from scratch.
SRE lens
It connects application logic to a vector database or other search system.
Remember thisA retriever component is the framework object responsible for returning relevant documents to a query.