{"slug": "i-built-an-ai-that-catches-its-own-lies-before-answering-you-heres-the-rag-loop", "title": "I Built an AI That Catches Its Own Lies Before Answering You — Here’s the Corrective RAG Loop That…", "summary": "A developer built a Corrective Agentic RAG system that grades its own retrieval, rewrites bad queries, and rejects ungrounded answers before responding. The system aims to reduce AI hallucinations by catching its own lies in real time.", "body_md": "Member-only story\n\n# I Built an AI That Catches Its Own Lies Before Answering You — Here’s the Corrective RAG Loop That Makes It Work\n\nA tested, running “Corrective Agentic RAG” system that grades its own retrieval, rewrites bad queries, and rejects its own ungrounded answers — with every log in this article captured from a real run\n\n**Estimated reading time:** 17–20 minutes\n\n## Table of Contents\n\n- Introduction\n- Problem Statement\n- Background\n- Core Concepts\n- Technology Deep Dive\n- Architecture\n- Mini Project: A Corrective Agentic RAG System\n- Implementation\n- Code Walkthrough\n- Testing\n- Performance\n- Limitations\n- Best Practices\n- Common Mistakes\n- Production Considerations\n- Future Improvements\n- Conclusion\n- Further Reading\n- Official References\n\nAll the codes in this article are available in the Github :\n\n[Agentic-Rag-Corrective-Project]", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-built-an-ai-that-catches-its-own-lies-before-answering-you-heres-the-rag-loop", "canonical_source": "https://pub.towardsai.net/i-built-an-ai-that-catches-its-own-lies-before-answering-you-heres-the-corrective-rag-loop-that-afd725f7bc71?source=rss----98111c9905da---4", "published_at": "2026-07-11 13:31:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-11 13:39:25.197726+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-agents", "ai-safety", "ai-research"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-built-an-ai-that-catches-its-own-lies-before-answering-you-heres-the-rag-loop", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-built-an-ai-that-catches-its-own-lies-before-answering-you-heres-the-rag-loop.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-built-an-ai-that-catches-its-own-lies-before-answering-you-heres-the-rag-loop.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-built-an-ai-that-catches-its-own-lies-before-answering-you-heres-the-rag-loop.jsonld"}}