Agentic RAG Pipeline — Multi-step Retrieval in Production
Build a full Plan-Retrieve-Evaluate-Synthesize pipeline. Unify vector search, web search, and SQL as agent tools. Add hallucination detection and source grounding.

title: "Agentic RAG Pipeline — Bringing Multi-Step Retrieval to Production"
date: "2026-03-09"
series: "agentic-rag"
part: 3
tags: ["rag", "agent", "langgraph", "production", "grounding"]
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