QIS-E-302 QISAGENT.COM THE INTELLIGENCE LAYER REV 2026-08-28 · BUILD 44
The Agent Stack · Retrieval

Haystack

Composable pipelines for retrieval and question answering.

QIS-E-302·Listed — not yet reviewed

The governance lens

Retrieval — the category

The selection of relevant material from a corpus and its supply to a model as context, determining what evidence the model sees before it answers. Definition and why it matters →

Explicit pipeline composition makes retrieval configuration diffable — which is the precondition for putting it under change control.

Why this framing

There is no shortage of writing about Haystack. This register asks the question the general coverage does not: what does it contribute to governing an autonomous system that touches capital, and where does that contribution stop?

Status and disclosure

Listed — not yet reviewed. Structured facts and a governance lens, with no score attached. A full profile requires hands-on use, and we do not score what we have not run.

Disclosure

No commercial relationship. Haystack is listed on editorial merit and has no input into this description.