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Vector RAG relies on an embedding index and similarity ranking, and is suitable for scenarios with a large corpus and fuzzy query semantics, but the index needs to be built and maintained, and chunk boundaries lose cross-file context; agentic retrieval builds no index, is semantically accurate and has traceable references, but traverses the files anew for every question, with costs accumulating linearly with the number of questions.
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