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AI Search Agent

Agentic AI combining search, reasoning, and tool calling

Built an AI agent that combines semantic search, multi-step reasoning, and external tool calling to answer complex information requests beyond traditional document retrieval.

AI AgentsSemantic SearchTool CallingLangChainGPT-4

Business Problem

Traditional search engines return documents, but users increasingly expect conversational answers and autonomous task execution requiring multi-step reasoning.

Architecture

  • User query → Planner → Search Tool → Retriever → LLM Reasoning → Response Generation
  • LangChain/LlamaIndex framework for agent orchestration
  • Vector search for semantic retrieval
  • Web search API integration for real-time information
  • REST API deployment with Docker support

Technical Decisions

  • Designed agent workflows where LLM decides when to search versus answer directly, reducing unnecessary API calls.
  • Balanced retrieved context against token limits through query reformulation and context compression.
  • Used tool calling to ground factual responses in external knowledge rather than relying solely on LLM parametric memory.

Production Challenges

  • Monitored API latency, tool success rate, token usage, and search accuracy.
  • Evaluated quality through human evaluation, retrieval precision, and task completion rate.
  • Designed stateless architecture enabling horizontal scaling for production deployment.

Outcomes

Demonstrates modern Agentic AI design patterns
Provides foundation for enterprise search assistants
Extensible with MCP servers and external tools

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