Building a RAG System from Scratch — Tool Use: Let the LLM Search Autonomously

In the previous article, we examined the design decisions behind our RAG pipeline. Now we'll give the...

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In the previous article, we examined the design decisions behind our RAG pipeline. Now we'll give the LLM the ability to call our search functions autonomously — this is Tool Use.

What Changes with Tool Use

In our RAG pipeline so far, we always called search() before generating an answer. The flow was hardcoded:

question → search() → generate_answer()

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