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How to combine agents and vectorstores
 Contents 
Create the Vectorstore
Create the Agent
Use the Agent solely as a router
Multi-Hop vectorstore reasoning
How to combine agents and vectorstores#
This notebook covers how to combine agents and vectorstores. The use case for this is that you’ve ingested your data into a vectorstore and want to interact with it in an agentic manner.
The recommended method for doing so is to create a RetrievalQA and then use that as a tool in the overall agent. Let’s take a look at doing this below. You can do this with multiple different vectordbs, and use the agent as a way to route between them. There are two different ways of doing this - you can either let the agent use the vectorstores as normal tools, or you can set return_direct=True to really just use the agent as a router.
Create the Vectorstore#
from langchain.embeddings.openai import OpenAIEmbeddings
from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma
from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
from langchain.chains import RetrievalQA
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0)
from pathlib import Path
relevant_parts = []
for p in Path(".").absolute().parts:
    relevant_parts.append(p)
    if relevant_parts[-3:] == ["langchain", "docs", "modules"]:
        break
doc_path = str(Path(*relevant_parts) / "state_of_the_union.txt")
from langchain.document_loaders import TextLoader
loader = TextLoader(doc_path)
documents = loader.load()
text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=1000, chunk_overlap=0)
texts = text_splitter.split_documents(documents)
embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()
rtdocs_stable/api.python.langchain.com/en/stable/modules/agents/agent_executors/examples/agent_vectorstore.html