AGENT USE CASE · SOURCE-FIRST

Documents & RAG agents.

A document agent normally combines extraction, indexed retrieval, a generation model and permissions. Embedding models support retrieval; they do not replace the agent's reasoning model.

What must be evaluated?

Ingestion

Parse files with verified OCR or document extraction, preserve section metadata and record document versions.

Retrieval

Evaluate multilingual search, recall, reranking and citation alignment against representative private documents.

Permissions

Filter retrieval by document-level access before sending snippets to the model; never rely on prompt instructions for access control.

Locality

Audit embeddings, logs, backups, telemetry and external connectors: a local LLM by itself does not make the whole document pipeline private.

23 catalog candidates and components

These model records are included by catalog modality or category, not by a verified task-success benchmark. Follow their primary sources before testing.

Reference architecture

Documents & permissions→Extraction & embeddings→Access-filtered retrieval→Generation & grounded citations

Every step needs its own provenance, permissions and monitoring. An embedding checkpoint is not an answer-generation model.

COMMON QUESTIONS

Frequently asked questions

Can an embedding model act as the entire document agent?

No. It provides retrieval vectors or similarity signals. A separate controller and often a generation model are still needed.

Is RAG automatically GDPR-compliant?

No. Compliance depends on processing purposes, data flows, retention, permissions and legal obligations.

READ THE ORIGINALS

Documentation and primary sources

Evidence before recommendation

Neither an eligible model category nor an untested runtime implies demonstrated agent task success. For documented source claims, consult the capability evidence ledger and then apply deployment constraints in the selector.

Evaluate before deployment.

Model metadata is source-linked; agent task success, tool-call reliability and production readiness require separate tests.

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