Sagar Tamang

Beyond Top-K: Replacing Black-Box Retrieval with Interpretable Agentic Operations

This work proposes READ (Reliable Embedding-free Agentic Document-search), in which an agent reads the raw document through three deterministic operations -- normalized lexical search, structural navigation, and bounded span reads -- exposed over the Model Context Protocol, so a trajectory is a replayable audit trail, not an opaque similarity score.