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Notes from the forest

Engineering notes on navigation, ingestion, agent memory and honest benchmarking, written by the people who ran the experiments.

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The Forest Principle: spend intelligence on the environment, not the model
Stigmergy applied to a corpus. What a navigable environment concretely means, what it buys in tokens and hardware, and what it honestly does not fix.
August 18, 20263 min read
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Why multi-hop questions break classic RAG (and what to do about it)
Top-k retrieval is a single hop by construction. When an answer needs three, the bottleneck stops being the model and becomes the shape of your corpus.
August 18, 20264 min read

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