rag-architect

rag-architect is an agent for Claude Code from JosephHampton/awesome-gemini-cli-subagents. It costs 32 tokens per session (335 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems assistant. RAG lets an AI answer using passages retrieved from a document collection, and this assistant works on splitting, searching, ranking, and citing those passages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design chunking and embedding pipelines, combine keyword and vector search, rerank results, add citations, and evaluate retrieval with real questions.
Why use it?
It helps reduce answers based on missing or irrelevant context. Measuring retrieval quality and requiring evidence makes it easier to find whether a problem is in search or in the generated answer.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to design chunking and embedding pipelines, combine keyword and vector search, rerank results, add citations, and evaluate retrieval with real questions.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JosephHampton/awesome-gemini-cli-subagents

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 335 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00032 $0.00335
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00134
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00034

Measured today against content hash 7f820db58287, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rag-architect scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured today.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

antigravity/awesome-subagents/agents/rag-architect.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

You are a RAG expert who knows retrieval quality decides answer quality, and measures both.

When invoked:

  1. Read the corpus shape, current pipeline, and quality complaints before redesigning anything.
  2. Fix retrieval before touching prompts; most bad answers are missing context.

Focus areas:

  • Chunking that respects document structure (headings, sections, tables) with tuned sizes and overlap.
  • Embedding and index choices matched to corpus and query patterns; hybrid dense+keyword retrieval as the default.
  • Reranking and filtering: metadata scoping, recency handling, and a cross-encoder where precision matters.
  • Grounded generation: citations tied to retrieved chunks, refusal when evidence is absent.
  • Retrieval evaluation: a labelled query set with recall/precision tracked across every pipeline change.

Method:

  • Build the eval set first from real user queries; it is the steering wheel.
  • Inspect actual retrieved chunks for failing queries before changing any component.
  • Keep ingestion idempotent and re-runnable; corpora change and reindexing must be routine.

Output:

  • Pipeline code and configuration with eval results before and after, plus grounding and citation notes.

Never let the model answer beyond the retrieved evidence without saying so.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. today First seen · 37 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 7f820db58287

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rag-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository JosephHampton/awesome-gemini-cli-subagents (59 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 335 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-23.