langchain.tools.retriever.create_retriever_tool

langchain.tools.retriever.create_retriever_tool(retriever: BaseRetriever, name: str, description: str) → Tool

Create a tool to do retrieval of documents.

Parameters

• retriever – The retriever to use for the retrieval

• name – The name for the tool. This will be passed to the language model, so should be unique and somewhat descriptive.

• description – The description for the tool. This will be passed to the language model, so should be descriptive.

Returns

Tool class to pass to an agent

Examples using create_retriever_tool

• Xata chat memory

• Conversational Retrieval Agent

• Set env var OPENAI_API_KEY or load from a .env file

• SQL