Pre-Retrieval vs Post-Retrieval Authorization
A RAG pipeline can enforce access inside the vector query or in the app after results return. Each has a distinct failure mode. Here is what breaks.
June 21, 2026·7 min read
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A RAG pipeline can enforce access inside the vector query or in the app after results return. Each has a distinct failure mode. Here is what breaks.
Embeddings throw away the permissions your source systems already track. Here is the recipe to carry document-level permissions into a RAG pipeline.
Gateco supports role, attribute, and relationship-based access control, and you can mix them in one policy set. Here is which model fits which pattern.
Gateco is not a RAG framework. It is the authorization layer you insert at the retrieval step of LangChain or LlamaIndex. Here is where it goes, and why.