- In short
- A RAG pipeline moves through ingestion, chunking, embedding, indexing, retrieval, and augmentation of the prompt with retrieved content. Retrieval happens before generation: retrieved chunks are inserted into context so Claude can ground its answer. The quality of every downstream stage is bounded by the quality of the chunking and indexing decisions made upstream, so a weak retrieval pipeline cannot be rescued by a stronger generation model.
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