Grep or Embeddings? Agentic Search Over Company Documents — George He, LlamaIndex
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Claude Code's grep-only approach suits small local code but breaks on millions of permissioned, multimodalA model that works with more than text — reading images, audio, or video, and sometimes generating them too.Full definition → documents. This shows how to give agents hybrid retrieval as a compass, then listing, filtering, grep and read tools to ground answers.
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agent harness — The scaffolding around a model that turns it into a working agent — the loop, the tools it can call, and the rules for when to stop.
multimodal — A model that works with more than text — reading images, audio, or video, and sometimes generating them too.