Creating a Custom AI Agent with Telerik Tools 2: Loading and Accessing Your Agent’s Content

A step-by-step walkthrough for building a RAG-enhanced custom AI agent in C#/Blazor using Telerik Document Processing Libraries. Covers connecting to Azure OpenAI or Ollama LLMs, loading DOCX/PDF/HTML documents into a SimpleTextDocument, merging multiple documents, and using the Telerik AI summarization processor to ground the LLM in custom content. Includes practical notes on performance differences between Azure and Ollama, timeout handling, and token cost management via the SummaryResourceCalculated event.