Can Agents Search Without a Vector Database? A Simple Grep Is Enough

The paper introduces Direct Corpus Interaction (DCI), letting LLM agents bypass vector indexes and use command‑line tools like grep to directly search raw text, achieving higher accuracy and lower cost on complex multi‑hop QA and retrieval benchmarks.

Agentic SearchCost EfficiencyDirect Corpus Interaction

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