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Context retrieval for AI agents: what it is & why it matters

calendar_today May 18, 2026 person Jim Allen Wallace domain redis

Your AI agent can reason, plan, and call tools, so why does it keep giving wrong answers? Most of the time, the problem isn’t the model itself, but what the model is working with. Retrieval bottlenecks are the real culprit: when an agent pulls the wro…

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