rag-implementation

A guide to Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), a way to make an AI application search external documents before generating an answer. It covers document processing, semantic search, vector databases, and answer evaluation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Building document question-and-answer tools, knowledge-grounded chatbots, documentation assistants, semantic search, research tools with citations, and other AI applications connected to external data.
Why use it?
It helps AI systems use current or private information instead of relying only on their built-in knowledge. It also provides ways to reduce unsupported answers and protect restricted documents.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ai-safeter/antigravity-cli-plugin/rag-implementation
Any agent
npx skills add AI-Safeter/antigravity-cli-plugin --skill rag-implementation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AI-Safeter/antigravity-cli-plugin

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Security

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Origin

This is a copy

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plugins/rag-implementation/SKILL.md · 422 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 422 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

RAG Implementation

Master Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to build LLM applications that provide accurate, grounded responses using external knowledge sources.

Use this skill when

  • Building Q&A systems over proprietary documents
  • Creating chatbots with current, factual information
  • Implementing semantic search with natural language queries
  • Reducing hallucinations with grounded responses
  • Enabling LLMs to access domain-specific knowledge
  • Building documentation assistants
  • Creating research tools with source citation

Do not use this skill when

  • You only need purely generative writing without retrieval
  • The dataset is too small to justify embeddings
  • You cannot store or process the source data safely

Instructions

  1. Define the corpus, update cadence, and evaluation targets.
  2. Choose embedding models and vector store based on scale.
  3. Build ingestion, chunking, and retrieval with reranking.
  4. Evaluate with grounded QA metrics and monitor drift.

Safety

  • Redact sensitive data and enforce access controls.
  • Avoid exposing source documents in responses when restricted.

Core Components

1. Vector Databases

Purpose: Store and retrieve document embeddings efficiently

Options:

  • Pinecone: Managed, scalable, fast queries
  • Weaviate: Open-source, hybrid search
  • Milvus: High performance, on-premise
  • Chroma: Lightweight, easy to use
  • Qdrant: Fast, filtered search
  • FAISS: Meta's library, local deployment

2. Embeddings

Purpose: Convert text to numerical vectors for similarity search

Models:

  • text-embedding-ada-002 (OpenAI): General purpose, 1536 dims
  • all-MiniLM-L6-v2 (Sentence Transformers): Fast, lightweight
  • e5-large-v2: High quality, multilingual
  • Instructor: Task-specific instructions
  • bge-large-en-v1.5: SOTA performance

3. Retrieval Strategies

Approaches:

  • Dense Retrieval: Semantic similarity via embeddings
  • Sparse Retrieval: Keyword matching (BM25, TF-IDF)
  • Hybrid Search: Combine dense + sparse
  • Multi-Query: Generate multiple query variations
  • HyDE: Generate hypothetical documents

Read the full file on GitHub · 422 lines

Changes

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  1. 2d ago First seen · 422 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A a002c1698147

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rag-implementation is a skill published in the GitHub repository AI-Safeter/antigravity-cli-plugin (10 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 2,775 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to rag-implementation, differing in 23 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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