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Relationship-Based Access Control in Fred with OpenFGA
Fred’s backend now ships a ReBAC model powered by OpenFGA. Tags, documents, and resource libraries inherit permissions, groups are first-class, and every check flows through centralized authorization—bringing Drive-like sharing semantics to agentic workflows.
December 18, 2025 in security, platform by Florian Muller and Simon Cariou7 minutes
Comparing Graph-Centric and Reflective RAG Agents in Fred
A comparison of Fred’s graph-centric RAG agent (Richard) and reflective RAG agent (Rico), including architecture and evaluation metrics.
December 16, 2025 in agents, architecture by Thomas Hedan5 minutes
Integrating External A2A Agents into Fred’s Backend
Fred now supports A2A agents alongside MCP agents. Developers can deploy standalone, language-agnostic agents and register them in Fred as first-class citizens. A new agentic bridge handles protocol translation, streaming adaptation, UI rendering, and security integration—unlocking industrial-grade agent development.
December 12, 2025 in platform, architecture by Nicolas Payneau, Dimitri Tombroff7 minutes
RAG That Pulls Its Weight: How Fred’s Retrieval Stack Leveled Up
Fred’s latest release strengthens retrieval: Lucene HNSW with cosine, semantic/hybrid/strict modes, corpus/global scope controls, chunk visibility, and attachment summaries injected into context. This post explains the why and the how.
December 11, 2025 in platform, update by Romain Perennes, Dimitri Tombroff and Simon Cariou5 minutes
From SQL to Agent: Smart Database Access in Fred
What started with CSV ingestion has grown into full SQL integration. With Fred’s new SQLTableStore, you can query, update, and enrich your databases naturally through agents like Tessa.
August 20, 2025 in agents, data, sql by Thomas Hedan3 minutes
Brontë: A New Content Generator Agent in Fred
Instead of relying on traditional form-based UIs, Brontë guides users step by step in designing complex templates and prompts, ensuring correct formats and properties, and saving them directly to Fred’s knowledge base using MCP.
August 18, 2025 in agents, content, automation by Simon Cariou4 minutes
MCP vs REST for RAG in Fred: Why We Run Both
Fred uses REST for graph-driven RAG (Rico, Rico Pro) and MCP for tool-driven RAG (Dominic). Running both lets us measure latency, reliability, governance, and developer ergonomics—without changing our UI or schemas.
August 17, 2025 in architecture, agents, rag by Thomas Hedan, Simon Cariou, Alban Capitant and Dimitri Tombroff4 minutes
Rico Learns to Reflect: Smarter Document Q&A with Self-RAG Techniques
Rico, the document expert agent in Fred, now leverages Self-RAG-inspired strategies to assess document quality, retry with smarter queries, and generate more accurate answers. This post explains the improvements.
August 5, 2025 in agents, update by Romain Perennes4 minutes
Ingest Smarter, Not Harder — Fred Gets a Temporal Brain
Thanks to Temporal, Fred makes document ingestion as reliable as microservices — with automatic retries, fine-grained observability, and custom pipelines for push or pull ingestion. A true game-changer for AI apps.
July 20, 2025 in architecture, ops, orchestration by Alban Capitant, Simon Cariou, Florian Muller and Dimitri Tombroff5 minutes
Bridging the Dev DevOps Gap with AI Deployment Review
Instead of relying on fragile regex scripts or complex linters, Fred uses AI to catch mismatches between backend code and Helm deployments. This makes deployment safer and helps teams move faster.
July 14, 2025 in devops, configuration-management, ai-review by Dimitri Tombroff4 minutes