A user asks how to cut agent token use with a personal RAG setup
A Reddit user says they keep marketing content, notes, and learnings in PDF, Word, and Excel files. Each time they work on a new idea, they upload the documents to an agent and ask it to design a system, which takes time and uses many tokens. The user asks how to build a selfhosted RAG that stores files by topic and lets them pull information when needed.
Key points
- The user stores marketing files in PDF, Word, and Excel formats.
- They currently upload documents to an agent for each new idea.
- They say this workflow is time-consuming and token-heavy.
- They want a selfhosted RAG for topic-wise file storage.
- The goal is to reuse personal files when needed without uploading everything again.
Quick term guide
- marketing
- The activities used to tell people about a product and encourage them to buy it.
- Content
- Information or experiences, like articles or videos, provided through digital media.
- Upload
- The process of sending data from your computer to the internet.
- selfhosted
- Run on your own computer or server instead of relying fully on an outside service.
- release
- A published version of software that people can download or use.
- context
- The information an AI uses to understand your request, such as files, notes, and past messages.
- workflow
- A repeatable set of steps for getting a task done.
- persona
- A specific personality or role that an AI agent is set to play.