Good article. Agentic RAG feels like an important step because AI Agents should not only retrieve information passively; they should decide what kind of information is needed.
But I think agentic retrieval also increases the need for governance.
If an agent can choose what to retrieve, the system still needs to control:
Otherwise retrieval becomes more flexible, but also harder to audit.
For enterprise or organizational agents, the retrieval layer needs permissions and provenance, not only semantic relevance.