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Prompting
Retrieval Prompt
A prompt that includes context retrieved from outside sources.
Definition
A retrieval prompt is one that inserts passages fetched from external sources — documents, a knowledge base, or search results — into the prompt so the model can ground its answer in that material. It is the prompt-side half of retrieval-augmented generation: a retriever finds relevant text and the prompt presents it as context. This keeps answers current and source-grounded without retraining the model.