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Retrieval

A New Runtime topic hub collecting signals, patterns, field notes, and public sources about retrieval.

Short answer

  • Retrieval is tracked here as an evidence-linked topic, not as a static glossary entry.
  • The page connects raw observations to pattern hypotheses, longer analysis, and public sources.
  • Use it as the canonical landing page before drilling into individual records.

Raw signals

Recent observations

5 signals

  1. Retrieval and long context do not create company memory

    Finding a relevant fragment does not establish whether it is current, authorized, trustworthy, or applicable to the present task.

  2. LinkedIn Builds Semantic Search for a Hiring Agent at Scale

    Hiring Assistant uses retrieval and ranking infrastructure tuned for agent decisions rather than generic document search.

  3. Reasoning can act as self-retrieval

    Google's Thinking to Recall work studies how generated reasoning can recover knowledge that a direct answer fails to surface.

  4. Google Makes RAG Search Again Before It Answers

    Agentic RAG adds planning and iterative retrieval when the first result set is insufficient, replacing one-shot lookup with a loop.

  5. CocoIndex Keeps Agent Context Fresh Without Full Reindexing

    CocoIndex turns source changes into incremental dataflow updates for live agent context and code-aware retrieval.