rag-design
Design a RAG architecture for a use case
What this skill does
# Design RAG Architecture Design a Retrieval-Augmented Generation system for a given use case. ## Arguments `$ARGUMENTS` - The RAG use case to design for (e.g., "customer support chatbot", "documentation Q&A", "legal document search", "code assistant") ## Workflow 1. **Clarify requirements** by understanding: - What type of questions will be asked? - What is the document corpus size and type? - What is the required accuracy/faithfulness? - What is the latency budget? - Are there multi-turn conversation requirements? 2. **Load relevant skills** based on the use case: - RAG patterns → `rag-architecture` - Vector store selection → `vector-databases` - LLM serving → `llm-serving-patterns` - Inference optimization → `ml-inference-optimization` 3. **Spawn the rag-architect agent** for comprehensive design: - Use Task tool with subagent_type="rag-architect" - Provide full use case context and requirements - Request end-to-end RAG architecture 4. **Design the ingestion pipeline**: - Document extraction (PDF, HTML, code) - Chunking strategy selection - Embedding model selection - Vector database configuration - Metadata extraction and indexing 5. **Design the retrieval pipeline**: - Query processing (expansion, HyDE) - Retrieval strategy (dense, sparse, hybrid) - Reranking approach - Context assembly - Prompt engineering 6. **Address quality and scale**: - Retrieval accuracy (recall@k, MRR) - Answer faithfulness (grounding) - Latency budget allocation - Cost optimization - Scaling strategy ## Example Usage ```bash /sd:rag-design customer support chatbot with 10K FAQ documents /sd:rag-design internal documentation Q&A for engineering team /sd:rag-design legal document search for contract review /sd:rag-design code assistant for enterprise codebase /sd:rag-design research paper Q&A with 100K papers /sd:rag-design product catalog search with structured data /sd:rag-design multi-lingual knowledge base ``` ## Use Case Categories | Category | Key Considerations | | -------- | ------------------ | | Customer Support | FAQ coverage, escalation, tone consistency | | Documentation | Technical accuracy, code examples, versioning | | Legal/Compliance | Citation accuracy, audit trails, access control | | Code Assistance | AST-aware chunking, context relevance, IDE integration | | Research/Academic | Multi-document reasoning, citation, long-form answers | | E-commerce | Product attributes, inventory awareness, personalization | ## RAG Pattern Selection Guide | Complexity | Pattern | When to Use | | ---------- | ------- | ----------- | | Low | Basic RAG | Simple Q&A, small corpus | | Medium | RAG + Reranking | Higher accuracy needed | | Medium | Hybrid Search | Mixed keyword + semantic queries | | High | Query-Transformed | Vague or complex queries | | High | Agentic RAG | Multi-hop reasoning, tool use | ## Output A comprehensive RAG system architecture including: - Ingestion pipeline (documents → vectors) - Retrieval pipeline (query → context) - Technology stack (embedding model, vector DB, LLM) - Quality targets (recall, faithfulness, latency) - Trade-offs and alternatives - Cost estimate (per-query and monthly)
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