Tool Calling in Plain PHP
In Part 1, our mini agent worked because we asked nicely: "Reply with JSON only,…
From Answering to Acting: What Makes an AI Agent
A customer opens the Nimbus chat window and types: "Hi, I bought the Pro annual…
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Bonus 2 — Local News RAG: Recency-Aware Answers & Multi-Source Citations
The last piece Bonus 1 left us able to fetch, dedup, and retrieve today's news.…
Bonus 1 — Local News RAG: Pointing the Pattern at Live Data
Same skeleton, live target You just built a support bot over static documents. This bonus…
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Episode 8 — Evaluating & Shipping
From "seems good" to "measurably good" to "live" For two episodes I've been repeating the…
Episode 7 — Improving Quality: Hybrid Search, Reranking & Guardrails
"Works on my questions" isn't "works" Episode 6 gave us a real, grounded, cited bot.…
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Episode 6 — Generation: Grounded Answers with Citations
The last mile Five episodes of groundwork come together here. We can load documents, chunk…
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Episode 5 — Retrieval: Top-K, Thresholds & Filtering
Our search is fast, but it isn't smart After Episode 4, MySQL ranks our chunks…
Episode 4 — Scaling the Vector Search in MySQL
The problem hiding in our search Episode 3 ended on a high: ask "how do…
Episode 3 — Embeddings & Your First Similarity Search
The gap we have to close At the end of Episode 2 we had chunks.json:…