diff --git a/app/MindWork AI Studio/Assistants/ERI/AssistantERI.razor b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Assistants/ERI/AssistantERI.razor
index 9153146b..bc5806eb 100644
--- a/app/MindWork AI Studio/Assistants/ERI/AssistantERI.razor	
+++ b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Assistants/ERI/AssistantERI.razor	
@@ -201,7 +201,6 @@
     Data retrieval settings
 </MudText>
 
-<MudTextField T="string" @bind-Text="@this.retrievalDescription" Validation="@this.ValidateRetrievalDescription" Label="Describe your data retrieval process" Variant="Variant.Outlined" Margin="Margin.Normal" Lines="6" AutoGrow="@true" MaxLines="12" UserAttributes="@USER_INPUT_ATTRIBUTES" Class="mb-3"/>
 <MudTextField T="string" @bind-Text="@this.additionalLibraries" Label="(Optional) Additional libraries" HelperText="Do you want to include additional libraries? Then name them and briefly describe what you want to achieve with them." Variant="Variant.Outlined" Margin="Margin.Normal" Lines="3" AutoGrow="@true" MaxLines="12" UserAttributes="@USER_INPUT_ATTRIBUTES" Class="mb-3"/>
 
 <MudText Typo="Typo.h4" Class="mt-6 mb-1">
diff --git a/app/MindWork AI Studio/Assistants/ERI/AssistantERI.razor.cs b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Assistants/ERI/AssistantERI.razor.cs
index 245879d9..55a23e65 100644
--- a/app/MindWork AI Studio/Assistants/ERI/AssistantERI.razor.cs	
+++ b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Assistants/ERI/AssistantERI.razor.cs	
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ public partial class AssistantERI : AssistantBaseCore
             this.selectedOperatingSystem = OperatingSystem.NONE;
             this.allowedLLMProviders = AllowedLLMProviders.NONE;
             this.embeddings = new();
-            this.retrievalDescription = string.Empty;
             this.additionalLibraries = string.Empty;
         }
     }
@@ -92,7 +91,6 @@ public partial class AssistantERI : AssistantBaseCore
             this.authDescription = this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.ERI.PreselectedAuthDescription;
             this.selectedOperatingSystem = this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.ERI.PreselectedOperatingSystem;
             this.allowedLLMProviders = this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.ERI.PreselectedAllowedLLMProviders;
-            this.retrievalDescription = this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.ERI.PreselectedRetrievalDescription;
             this.embeddings = this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.ERI.PreselectedEmbeddingInfos;
             this.additionalLibraries = this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.ERI.PreselectedAdditionalLibraries;
             return true;
@@ -126,7 +124,6 @@ public partial class AssistantERI : AssistantBaseCore
         this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.ERI.PreselectedAuthDescription = this.authDescription;
         this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.ERI.PreselectedOperatingSystem = this.selectedOperatingSystem;
         this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.ERI.PreselectedAllowedLLMProviders = this.allowedLLMProviders;
-        this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.ERI.PreselectedRetrievalDescription = this.retrievalDescription;
         this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.ERI.PreselectedEmbeddingInfos = this.embeddings;
         this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.ERI.PreselectedAdditionalLibraries = this.additionalLibraries;
         await this.SettingsManager.StoreSettings();
@@ -149,7 +146,6 @@ public partial class AssistantERI : AssistantBaseCore
     private OperatingSystem selectedOperatingSystem = OperatingSystem.NONE;
     private AllowedLLMProviders allowedLLMProviders = AllowedLLMProviders.NONE;
     private List<EmbeddingInfo> embeddings = new();
-    private string retrievalDescription = string.Empty;
     private string additionalLibraries = string.Empty;
     
     private string? ValidateServerName(string name)
@@ -395,14 +391,6 @@ public partial class AssistantERI : AssistantBaseCore
         
         return $"You have selected {selectedValues.Count} authentication methods";
     }
-    
-    private string? ValidateRetrievalDescription(string description)
-    {
-        if(string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(description))
-            return "Please describe how the data retrieval process should work. This is important for the integration of the data source into AI Studio by means of the ERI.";
-        
-        return null;
-    }
 
     private bool NeedHostnamePort()
     {
diff --git a/app/MindWork AI Studio/Settings/DataModel/DataERI.cs b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Settings/DataModel/DataERI.cs
index 6c3cdf0e..1d58f125 100644
--- a/app/MindWork AI Studio/Settings/DataModel/DataERI.cs	
+++ b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Settings/DataModel/DataERI.cs	
@@ -98,10 +98,7 @@ public sealed class DataERI
     public List<EmbeddingInfo> PreselectedEmbeddingInfos { get; set; } = new();
 
     /// <summary>
-    /// Do you want to preselect a retrieval description?
     /// </summary>
-    public string PreselectedRetrievalDescription { get; set; } = string.Empty;
-
     /// <summary>
     /// Do you want to preselect any additional libraries?
     /// </summary>