FrontierAI.Engineer
RAG & Grounded Generation

Chunk Metadata

Chunk metadata is structured information stored alongside each chunk in the document store — such as the source document title, URL, section heading, page number, creation date, and author. Metadata enables hybrid filtering: a query can restrict retrieval to chunks from a specific time range, document type, or category before ranking by semantic similarity. Rich metadata also powers accurate citation generation, letting the system tell users exactly which document and section each answer came from.