Skip to main content

AI Agents: Beyond Simple RAG

Basic RAG retrieves documents and generates answers. Agentic RAG goes further — the AI decides WHAT to retrieve, WHEN to use tools, and HOW to break complex questions into steps.

Agent Capabilities

  • Tool calling: Agents can query databases, call APIs, run code, search the web
  • Multi-step reasoning: Break complex questions into sub-tasks
  • Memory: Remember context across conversations
  • Multi-agent: Specialized agents collaborating on complex tasks

Learn AI Agent Engineering

Module 8 covers agent architectures, LangGraph, tool calling, and multi-agent orchestration.

How to Use This Topic

This page is a focused entry point into the larger course. Use it to understand the vocabulary, the production problem, and the first practical module to open next.

  • Read the overview to map the concept to real engineering work.
  • Follow the linked module for exercises, diagrams, and implementation details.
  • Return to the full curriculum when you need adjacent topics and a complete learning path.

Start Learning for Free

Continue with Production-Grade RAG Systems Engineering: 16 modules, 31 hands-on labs, completely free.

Start Module 8 | View full curriculum