Category · 5 laws
Retrieval & Memory
Getting the right facts in front of the model.
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Retrieval Is the Ceiling
Missing evidence becomes a missing answer.
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Grounding Is Not a Guarantee
Retrieval reduces hallucination. It doesn't eliminate it.
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Relevant Beats Plenty
Near-misses poison context worse than random noise.
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Keyword Still Carries Weight
Pure semantic search quietly loses to a 40-year-old baseline.
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Memory Is a System, Not a Window
Give the agent a hierarchy, not just a bigger prompt.