--- title: "Agentic search models" url: https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-search-models-qcwmigdv3 source_url: http://softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/05/11/the-new-agentic-search-models.html type: article source: "Software Doug" published: 2026-05-12T13:50:55.620Z updated: 2026-05-12T13:51:19.028Z tags: ["llm", "rag"] reading_time: 5 upvotes: 5 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Agentic search models **[Software Doug](https://daily.dev/sources/softwaredoug)** · 5 min read · 5 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Traditional search stacks are built from discrete, manually orchestrated components — embeddings, rerankers, BM25, query classifiers — each unaware of the whole pipeline. Agentic search replaces this monolith with an LLM that orchestrates simpler retrieval primitives end-to-end. Frontier models like GPT-5 handle the generic 80% but miss domain-specific nuances (e.g., 'bistro tables' meaning outdoor furniture in a specific store). Purpose-trained agentic search models like SID-1 and Glean's Waldo aim to fill that last 20% by being smaller, faster, and tuned to specific domains and user behaviors. The author predicts a future ecosystem of domain-specific agentic search models — analogous to today's specialized embedding models on HuggingFace — covering e-commerce, job search, and more. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Agentic search - retrieval, harness, or model?](https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-search---retrieval-harness-or-model--caehzlaqp) · Software Doug · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Can agents replace the search stack?](https://daily.dev/posts/can-agents-replace-the-search-stack--0ytkqcrrk) · Software Doug · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Agentic RAG: Let the Agent Search](https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-rag-let-the-agent-search-fbdgqwlmi) · Towards Data Science · 3 upvotes · 1 comments - [You Say Search, I Say Recs: A Scalable Agentic Approach to Query Understanding and Exploratory Search at Spotify](https://daily.dev/posts/you-say-search-i-say-recs-a-scalable-agentic-approach-to-query-understanding-and-exploratory-searc-gderd19fn) · Spotify Research · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Beyond Generative: The Rise Of Agentic AI And User-Centric Design — Smashing Magazine](https://daily.dev/posts/beyond-generative-the-rise-of-agentic-ai-and-user-centric-design-smashing-magazine-gqlb1szwm) · Smashing Magazine · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#rag](https://daily.dev/tags/rag) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-search-models-qcwmigdv3)