Made a pre-flight check for RAG projects - thoughts?
Posted by me_z@reddit | LocalLLaMA | View on Reddit | 0 comments
I've been seeing a lot of RAG projects fail for predictable reasons (structured data, calculation queries, etc), so I built a tool that analyzes your docs/queries upfront to predict if RAG will actually work.
It's basically a compatibility checker that tells you:
- If your documents will work with RAG (tables/Excel = bad)
- If your queries are RAG-compatible (math = impossible)
- Rough cost estimates
GitHub: https://github.com/ragnostics/ragnostics-tool
The tool is rough and probably too pessimistic. I'm wondering:
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Is this actually useful or am I solving a non-problem?
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What other failure patterns should it check for?
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Are my assumptions about RAG limitations outdated?
There's a paid version with more features, but honestly I'm more interested in whether the core concept is even valuable. Would you use something like this before starting a RAG project?