Show HN: RouteMind – routing instead of retrieval for agent knowledge

Category: ai-ml

Tags: agentic-ai, rag-alternative, knowledge-management, routing, mcp

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 7, Documentation: 9, Utility: 5)

RouteMind is a research prototype that replaces vector similarity retrieval with a human-curated routing tree for agent knowledge access. Agents traverse a hierarchical map of document areas, choosing branches based on one-sentence relevance descriptions, which reportedly outperforms RAG on a synthetic corpus with many near-identical documents. The project is notable for its unusually honest documentation of costs, failure modes, and evaluation limitations.

Target audience: AI engineers and researchers working on agent knowledge systems

Repository: https://github.com/CSP911/routemind · Python · MIT · 4 stars

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