RAG Architecture

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

• Designing RAG pipelines for LLM applications
• Choosing chunking and embedding strategies
• Optimizing retrieval quality and relevance
• Building knowledge-grounded AI systems
• Implementing hybrid search (dense + sparse)
• Designing multi-stage retrieval pipelines

Keywords: RAG, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, chunking, vector search, semantic search, context window, grounding, knowledge base, hybrid search, reranking, BM25, dense retrieval

RAG Architecture Overview

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