Author(s): Sudip P.

Originally published on Towards AI.

Diagram-1: RAG vs MCP agent architecture: a small LLM router classifies each user query as either a Knowledge request (hybrid search → cross-encoder rerank) or an Action request (validate input → tool call). Both paths converge at a single frontier model for synthesis, then pass through eval and logging before returning a response.

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