arXiv AI August 25, 2026 By Nazib Sorathiya, Daniel Zhang, Bardiya Akhbari

Enrich-Retrieve-Rank: Scaling Capability Discovery Beyond In-Context Routing

The paper introduces Enrich‑Retrieve‑Rank, a scalable method for discovering capabilities in large agent ecosystems. It replaces in‑context routing with an offline enrichment step that converts sparse metadata into searchable profiles, followed by an online retrieve‑then‑rank pipeline that returns a ranked shortlist without invoking candidates. Experiments show that as the number of capabilities grows from 10 to 7,278, the new approach maintains higher top‑1 accuracy and reduces cost by 70× compared to full‑context baselines.

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