Decoupling Search from Reasoning: A Vendor-Agnostic Grounding Architecture for LLM Agents

In three linesDecoupled Search Grounding (DSG) decouples search from reasoning via an MCP-compatible gateway. On SimpleQA, FreshQA, and HotpotQA, DSG achieves 86.1% accuracy (vs 87.7% native) with 91% lower search cost and 68% lower latency. In production e-commerce workload, DSG cuts search cost by 98% while maintaining accuracy.

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