Agentic search

Technique · Agents · 3 items since Apr 2026

Agents that plan and run multi-step searches over the web or documents to answer questions.

Organizations: Chroma UC Berkeley University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Wix

Trends

Jul 17
GRASP teaches granularity-aware agentic search
An RL framework trains agents to coordinate semantic search, keyword search, and paragraph reading at sentence-level granularity, improving multi-hop retrieval recall and QA while learning interpretable skim-and-scan behavior.
Jun 8
Harness-1 open search agent beats GPT-5.4
A 20B open-source search agent from UIUC, UC Berkeley, and Chroma, built on gpt-oss-20B, redesigns complex retrieval to reach 73% average recall versus GPT-5.4's 70.9%, with weights and environment released under Apache 2.0.
Apr 15
Wix's Corpus2Skill navigates instead of retrieving
Wix Research compiles a document corpus offline into a hierarchical skill directory that an agent browses through progressively finer summaries, with backtracking and retrieval by ID, outperforming dense retrieval, RAPTOR, and agentic RAG on the WixQA enterprise benchmark.