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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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