The GigaRAG blog

Guides on retrieval-augmented generation, hybrid search, embeddings, and building AI systems that answer from your own data.

Retrieval

Context Left Until Auto-Compact: A Guide for RAG Builders

GigaRAG teamOctober 3, 202619 min read

Editorial desk scene with a developer's hands on a laptop showing a Claude Code context counter, printed cards labeled Decisions, Constraints, and File Paths, and sketch lines routing them to an external memory cylinder instead of the terminal. GigaRAG article hero.

Retrieval

You've Reached the Maximum Length for This Conversation: Fix It

GigaRAG teamOctober 2, 202612 min read

Editorial desk scene showing a developer's hands beside a laptop with a maximum conversation length error and a token counter, next to a printed Agent Memory card and a Vector DB drive connected by a cable, with a sketch overlay suggesting history offloaded from the context window for GigaRAG.

Retrieval

Claude Hit the Maximum Length for This Conversation: Fix It

GigaRAG teamOctober 2, 202619 min read

Editorial desk scene showing a developer's hands beside a laptop displaying Claude's maximum length error, with a summary handoff card and an external memory drive connected by cable, illustrating context offload.

Retrieval

Forward Deployed Engineer Day in the Life: Hour-by-Hour

GigaRAG teamOctober 2, 202619 min read

Editorial scene of a forward deployed engineer's hands at a customer conference table with a laptop showing a RAG pipeline diagnostic, a printed ticket labeled Wrong Answers After Data Sync, and a sketch overlay connecting the ticket to a chunking stage diagram, representing a GigaRAG article on the FDE day in the life.

Retrieval

What Does an FDE Do? Honest Guide for RAG Builders

GigaRAG teamOctober 2, 202617 min read

GigaRAG hero image showing a forward deployed engineer's desk with a laptop running a RAG pipeline diagnostic, a customer data card, and a connector cable into a vector database, with a sketch overlay illustrating the integration path.

Retrieval

How to Add Memory to Raycast: Native vs Extensions

GigaRAG teamOctober 2, 202618 min read

Editorial desk scene with a laptop showing the Raycast command bar, an index card labeled Session Memory, and an external drive labeled Persistent Store connected by a cable, illustrating how to add cross-session memory to Raycast with GigaRAG.

Retrieval

How to Add Memory to BoltAI: Setup Guide

GigaRAG teamOctober 2, 202612 min read

Overhead view of a developer enabling the BoltAI memory plugin in Settings on a MacBook, with printed cards labeled Persistent Instructions and No Vector DB on the desk, illustrating GigaRAG's guide to BoltAI memory.

Retrieval

How to Add Memory to Cherry Studio: Step-by-Step

GigaRAG teamOctober 2, 202613 min read

Editorial desk scene showing Cherry Studio memory settings on a laptop with labeled cards for global memory, assistant memory, and knowledge base, illustrating GigaRAG's guide to built-in memory configuration.

Retrieval

How to Add Memory to Witsy: Step-by-Step Setup

GigaRAG teamOctober 2, 202613 min read

Editorial desk scene with a laptop showing Witsy settings and a memory plugin toggle, with a stored context card and recall sketch overlay for GigaRAG.

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How to Add Memory to LibreChat: Step-by-Step

GigaRAG teamOctober 2, 202617 min read

GigaRAG editorial image showing a developer configuring LibreChat memory with YAML key/value cards beside a laptop displaying a chat interface with injected context.

Retrieval

GraphRAG at Scale: What Works for Agent Memory

GigaRAG teamOctober 2, 202618 min read

Editorial desk scene with printed cards labeled Vector RAG and GraphRAG, connected by sketch lines through graph nodes to a database cylinder, representing relationship-aware retrieval for GigaRAG.

Retrieval

Vector Database vs Graph Database for RAG Pipelines

GigaRAG teamOctober 2, 202624 min read

Editorial workbench comparing vector database semantic similarity search and graph database relationship traversal for RAG pipeline builders, with a laptop showing both retrieval result types.

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What GraphRAG Costs to Build and Maintain: TCO Guide

GigaRAG teamOctober 1, 202616 min read

Editorial desk scene with a developer holding Re-index and Entity Drift cards, overlaid with a dashed line sketch converging duplicate graph nodes into one, representing GraphRAG build and maintenance costs.

Retrieval

GraphRAG Examples and Project Ideas for Agent Memory

GigaRAG teamOctober 1, 202613 min read

Editorial desk scene showing a developer connecting printed cards labeled Agent Memory and Knowledge Graph with a sketch overlay of linked nodes, beside a laptop displaying a graph visualization.

Retrieval

Building a Knowledge Graph from Documents with an LLM: Guide

GigaRAG teamOctober 1, 202625 min read

Overhead editorial workbench scene showing a developer merging duplicate entity cards labeled Acme Corp, Acme, and Acme Corporation into one node, with a laptop displaying a knowledge graph visualization for RAG and agent memory.

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