If you want to be really stringent, RAG originally referred to going from user query to retrieving information directly based on the query then passing it to an

If you want to be really stringent, RAG originally referred to going from user query to retrieving information directly based on the query then passing it to an LLM: With CC the LLM is taking the raw user query then crafting its own searches But realistically lots of RAG systems have LLM calls interleaved for various reasons, so what they probably mean it not doing the usual chunking + embeddings thing.