Agentic RAG
Retrieval-augmented generation where the agent decides when to search, what to search for, and whether the results are good enough, instead of running one fixed lookup before answering.
“Plain RAG grabbed the wrong policy doc; agentic RAG searched again and found the current one.”
See also
Part of the Extended list
Agentic RAG is on the Extended list: builder jargon, industry terms, and newer slang for when you want to go further. It entered common use around 2025.