A step-by-step tutorial covering the full lifecycle of using the Gemini API File Search tool with JavaScript/TypeScript to build a managed RAG system. Topics include creating and managing File Search Stores, uploading files concurrently, configuring custom chunking strategies, running generation queries with metadata filtering, and performing CRUD operations on documents. File storage and embedding generation are free; only initial indexing costs $0.15 per million tokens.

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Table of contents
1) Create a File Search Store2) Find a Store by Display Name3) Upload Multiple Files Concurrently4) Upload with Custom Chunking Strategies5) Run a Generation Query using File Search (RAG)6) Find a Specific Document within a Store7) Delete a Document8) Update a Document9) Cleanup: Delete the File Search Store