Avi Chawla@_avichawlax

Google and Anthropic move retrieval out of app into standalone service

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• Separating ingestion from query avoids stale embeddings and coupled infrastructure.
• MCP and RAG Engine expose retrieval as a tool agents invoke, not a pipeline inside one app.
• Old naive RAG causes index drift and duplicate connectors across apps.

how to reproduce · Implement retrieval as a standalone service (e.g., MCP server or RAG Engine) that agents call via tools. Decouple ingestion from query to avoid stale embeddings and reuse connectors across apps.