Been orbiting around a few similar RAG setups recently — funny how the more “advanced” they get, the more the retrieval logic starts collapsing under its own abstraction layers. Most of what looks like graph RAG or hybrid pipelines still ends up chunking without memory of what the meaning *was between chunks*. Like, once you break context down, it doesn't really come back unless you're actively managing the semantic deformation. One approach we tried recently was treating the RAG sequence not as a pull→answer pipeline, but as a tension-mapping surface — almost like pressure zones of forgotten logic. Not sure if this diagram leans more toward runtime structure or memory strategy, but either way, curious to hear how people are anchoring long-range meaning across hops. Still feels like everyone's building ziplines across a canyon without checking if the cliffs are even stable.