https://site.fredlab.dev/categories/agents/Recent content in Agents on FredHugoenCopyright (c) 2020-2024 ThuliteFri, 24 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/excel-but-agent-ready-how-fred-turns-spreadsheets-into-queryable-knowledge/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/excel-but-agent-ready-how-fred-turns-spreadsheets-into-queryable-knowledge/Excel is not a document — it’s a data source wearing a document’s clothes. Here is how Fred rebuilds the structure of a workbook deterministically, hands the agent a global map plus queryable tables, and adds a server-side value locator that collapses a dozen blind queries into a single targeted one.https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/continuous-evaluation-made-visible-fred-agent-evaluator-in-action/Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/continuous-evaluation-made-visible-fred-agent-evaluator-in-action/The Admin of a Fred team is accountable for how its agents behave — but accountability without visibility is just exposure. fred-agent-evaluator is what gives that accountability something to stand on, including custom, business-specific checks an Analyst can define just by describing them.https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/rich-mode-extending-rag-with-direct-visual-evidence/Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:07:05 +0100https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/rich-mode-extending-rag-with-direct-visual-evidence/An exploration of the structural limitations of text-based RAG systems, supported by benchmarks, and how Rich mode introduces a multimodal retrieval strategy that preserves and leverages images as first-class evidence.https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/comparing-graph-centric-and-reflective-rag-agents-in-fred/Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:07:05 +0100https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/comparing-graph-centric-and-reflective-rag-agents-in-fred/A comparison of Fred’s graph-centric RAG agent (Richard) and reflective RAG agent (Rico), including architecture and evaluation metrics.https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/from-sql-to-agent-smart-database-access-in-fred/Wed, 20 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/from-sql-to-agent-smart-database-access-in-fred/What started with CSV ingestion has grown into full SQL integration. With Fred’s new SQLTableStore, you can query, update, and enrich your databases naturally through agents like Tessa.https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/bront%C3%AB-a-new-content-generator-agent-in-fred/Mon, 18 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/bront%C3%AB-a-new-content-generator-agent-in-fred/Instead of relying on traditional form-based UIs, Brontë guides users step by step in designing complex templates and prompts, ensuring correct formats and properties, and saving them directly to Fred’s knowledge base using MCP.https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/mcp-vs-rest-for-rag-in-fred-why-we-run-both/Sun, 17 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/mcp-vs-rest-for-rag-in-fred-why-we-run-both/Fred uses REST for graph-driven RAG (Rico, Rico Pro) and MCP for tool-driven RAG (Dominic). Running both lets us measure latency, reliability, governance, and developer ergonomics—without changing our UI or schemas.https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/rico-learns-to-reflect-smarter-document-qa-with-self-rag-techniques/Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:00:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/rico-learns-to-reflect-smarter-document-qa-with-self-rag-techniques/Rico, the document expert agent in Fred, now leverages Self-RAG-inspired strategies to assess document quality, retry with smarter queries, and generate more accurate answers. This post explains the improvements.https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/from-csv-to-agent-tabular-data-gets-smart-in-fred/Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:00:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/from-csv-to-agent-tabular-data-gets-smart-in-fred/Fred now supports agentic access to tabular data like CSV and Excel through a new DuckDB-based backend and the Tessa agent. Explore how this works and what it unlocks.