Why this is in the programme
A useful enterprise system cannot depend upon the model already knowing the answer. It must be able to obtain relevant information from authoritative sources and preserve enough of that relationship for its output to be examined.
Course
Building LLM Applications with Tools and Retrieval — Edureka
The course covers tool calling, APIs, structured data, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector databases, chunking and retrieval techniques.
Role in the experiment
This stage addresses one of the central questions of the project: how a model can reason from evidence without losing the provenance that makes its conclusions defensible.
The eventual engineering work will examine not only whether relevant information can be retrieved, but whether the system can distinguish source evidence from its own inference.