Staging environment
Free Lesson

Agentic Search for Context Engineering

60 min
Apr 1, 2026 10:30 AM
Virtual (Zoom)

In this video

What you'll learn

Why context engineering is 80% agentic search

Understand how retrieval evolved from passive RAG pipelines to agents that build their own context with search tools

The search tool landscape

Understand which search tools exist, how they work, and their trade-offs

How to curate your agent's search tools

Practical considerations for adding more search tools

Why this topic matters

Context engineering is 80% agentic search. Agents aren’t the passive recipients of context anymore. Today, they build it themselves. And the most important tools they have to do that are their search tools We'll cut through the current debate around filesystems, databases, and shell tools, and give you a practical framework for choosing the right search interface for your agent's actual needs.

You'll learn from

Leonie Monigatti

Leonie Monigatti

Sr. Developer Advocate, Elastic

Doug Turnbull

Doug Turnbull

Search + Snuggie Enthusiast

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