Engineers
~60–90 pages
From RAG to Agents: Code-Aware Agentic Pipelines
How Retrieval Feeds Agentic Loops and Why the Combination Changes What's Possible
Free Ebook
EPUB + Markdown
By David Kelly Price
About This Ebook
Architects and senior ML engineers building AI systems that go beyond single-turn generation — designing pipelines where retrieval, planning, and action are interleaved
What you'll learn:
- The Limits of Single-Pass RAG
- Agents: Planning, Tool Use, and Loops
- Code Retrieval as an Agent Tool
- Multi-Step Retrieval for Complex Tasks
- Grounding Agents in Codebase Reality
- Memory and State Across Agent Steps
- Evaluation for Agentic Systems
- Production Architecture and Safety
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