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Leonie Monigatti

Senior Developer Advocate

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Helps developers build search-powered AI agents.

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Building effective database retrieval tools for context engineering
Agentic AIInside Elastic

March 9, 2026

Building effective database retrieval tools for context engineering

Best practices for writing database retrieval tools for context engineering. Learn how to design and evaluate agent tools for interacting with Elasticsearch data.

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By: Leonie Monigatti

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