RAG Retrieval

Comprehensive patterns for building production RAG systems. Each category has individual rule files in rules/ loaded on-demand.

Quick Reference

Category	Rules	Impact	When to Use
Core RAG	4	CRITICAL	Basic RAG, citations, hybrid search, context management
Embeddings	3	HIGH	Model selection, chunking, batch/cache optimization
Contextual Retrieval	3	HIGH	Context-prepending, hybrid BM25+vector, pipeline
HyDE	3	HIGH	Vocabulary mismatch, hypothetical document generation
Agentic RAG	4	HIGH	Self-RAG, CRAG, knowledge graphs, adaptive routing
Multimodal RAG	3	MEDIUM	Image+text retrieval, PDF chunking, cross-modal search
Query Decomposition	3	MEDIUM	Multi-concept queries, parallel retrieval, RRF fusion
Reranking	3	MEDIUM	Cross-encoder, LLM scoring, combined signals
PGVector	4	HIGH	PostgreSQL hybrid search, HNSW indexes, schema design

Total: 30 rules across 9 categories