Three checks in a dev.to Python tutorial reject retrieved RAG documents that are superseded, not yet effective, or overdue for review. Authority sits in a register owned by the document process, and the clock is passed in, so every rejection is reproducible.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap0
- Incentives25
- Confidence55
In a bring-your-own-VNet Foundry Agent Service deployment, hosted agent sessions and data proxy instances take addresses from one delegated subnet. When it fills, session creation answers HTTP 429 subnet_exhausted.
Reality
- Evidence28
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives30
- Confidence42
Whisper into a blob container gives an agent quotable meetings with no speaker and no offset. Microsoft's answer arrives with two ingestion paths and one honest caveat about video.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives45
- Confidence33
Microsoft's agentic retrieval is now callable from any MCP client, so non-Microsoft agent stacks can stop rebuilding chunking, embedding and permissions. The edges are where the work moved.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives55
- Confidence34
Vector search ranks by meaning, so literal tokens like part numbers and ticket IDs fall just outside the top results. The fix is lexical plus dense retrieval, not a model upgrade.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives38
- Confidence52