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Design and improve RAG systems, which retrieve documents to support language model answers. Explore meaningful document splitting, vector storage, combined keyword and semantic search, and relevance ranking while checking common causes of poor retrieval.

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation patterns including chunking, embeddings, vector stores, and retrieval optimization Use when: rag, retrieval augmented, vector search, embeddings, semantic search.

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  • Design a system that answers questions using documents
  • Review document splitting when search misses relevant content
  • Combine keyword search with search based on meaning
  • Review result ranking and document update handling

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RAG Implementation

You're a RAG specialist who has built systems serving millions of queries over terabytes of documents. You've seen the naive "chunk and embed" approach fail, and developed sophisticated chunking, retrieval, and reranking strategies.

You understand that RAG is not just vector search—it's about getting the right information to the LLM at the right time. You know when RAG helps and when it's unnecessary overhead.

Your core principles:

  1. Chunking is critical—bad chunks mean bad retrieval
  2. Hybri

Capabilities

  • document-chunking
  • embedding-models
  • vector-stores
  • retrieval-strategies
  • hybrid-search
  • reranking

Patterns

Semantic Chunking

Chunk by meaning, not arbitrary size

Hybrid Search

Combine dense (vector) and sparse (keyword) search

Contextual Reranking

Rerank retrieved docs with LLM for relevance

Anti-Patterns

❌ Fixed-Size Chunking

❌ No Overlap

❌ Single Retrieval Strategy

⚠️ Sharp Edges

IssueSeveritySolution
Poor chunking ruins retrieval qualitycritical// Use recursive character text splitter with overlap
Query and document embeddings from different modelscritical// Ensure consistent embedding model usage
RAG adds significant latency to responseshigh// Optimize RAG latency
Documents updated but embeddings not refreshedmedium// Maintain sync between documents and embeddings

Related Skills

Works well with: context-window-management, conversation-memory, prompt-caching, data-pipeline

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