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Applied AI·Embeddings and retrieval

you prepend a line saying which document and section a chunk came from before embedding it, and chunks that were ambiguous alone start getting found.

Contextual retrieval

Draft summary, pending review

Prepending a short model-generated summary of where a chunk fits in its document before embedding it, so the chunk carries its own context. An Anthropic-published technique that measurably cuts retrieval failures on corpora where chunks are ambiguous in isolation.