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Contextual Retrieval
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Anthropic introduces Contextual Retrieval to reduce RAG retrieval failures by up to 67%
Anthropic published a technical method called Contextual Retrieval that combines Contextual Embeddings and Contextual BM25 to address the context-loss problem in traditional RAG pipelines. The approach prepends chunk-level context before encoding, reducing failed retrievals by 49% standalone and 67% when combined with reranking. The post also highlights prompt caching as a simpler alternative for knowledge bases under 200K tokens, and provides a cookbook for deployment with Claude.