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The Augmented LLM: Retrieval, Tools, and Memory

Feb 18, 2026·6 min·AI

A bare language model is a closed system. It cannot look up a fresh fact, cannot act in the world, cannot remember the last conversation. Every non-trivial agent is an attempt to lift one or more of those three constraints.

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