rrf-hybrid-retrieval

rrf-hybrid-retrieval is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AnthonyAlcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills. It costs 144 tokens per session (1,742 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A search method that combines meaning-based search, exact-word search, relationship lookup, and time-based search, then reorders the results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate incidents, connect services and deployments, find matching records, and keep the final results within an AI model's context limit.
Why use it?
Each search type finds different evidence: exact identifiers, related items, similar concepts, or recent events. Combining them reduces missed results.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to investigate incidents, connect services and deployments, find matching records, and keep the final results within an AI model's context limit.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthonyalcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills/rrf-hybrid-retrieval
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add AnthonyAlcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills --skill rrf-hybrid-retrieval
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AnthonyAlcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 144 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,742 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 $0.00144 $0.01742
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.00871
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00348
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00174

Measured 12d ago against content hash e87ee3ec0c7b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rrf-hybrid-retrieval 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (cli.py, lib.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/memory/rrf-hybrid-retrieval/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

RRF Hybrid Retrieval

Overview

A DevOps incident query like "latency spike in checkout related to recent deploy" needs four kinds of retrieval:

  • Semantic: conceptually similar past incidents (vector similarity)
  • Keyword: exact identifiers (checkout-api, deploy-v3.5.0)
  • Graph traversal: connected entities (services that depend on checkout-api; deploys that touched it)
  • Temporal: recent events (last 24h, by deploy timestamp)

Any single channel misses; semantic loses exact identifiers, keyword misses synonyms, graph misses isolated nodes, temporal misses the "happened before 24h ago but matters" cases. The fusion is the point.

Reciprocal Rank Fusion (Cormack et al. 2009):

RRF(item) = sum over channels c of: 1 / (k + rank_c(item))

Where k=60 is the standard. Rank-based — no score calibration needed. Items missing from a channel contribute zero from that channel. Items ranked high across multiple channels naturally rise to the top.

After fusion, run a cross-encoder reranker over the top-N for precision, then apply a token-budget filter so the result fits the downstream LLM's context window. Per HINDSIGHT (Latimer et al. 2025, cited in Ch4): "After RRF, a neural cross-encoder reranker refines precision on top candidates, then token budget filtering ensures results fit the downstream LLM's context window."

When to Use

  • Memory queries that span multiple retrieval-channel "shapes" (conceptual
    • exact + connected + recent)
  • Production DevOps incident-investigation, customer-support resolution, research-synthesis agents
  • When you need to combine heterogeneous retrieval methods and don't want to calibrate scores across them

Phrases: "hybrid retrieval", "RRF", "reciprocal rank fusion", "multi- channel search", "combine semantic and keyword", "cross-encoder rerank".

When NOT to Use

  • Single-channel retrieval is sufficient (e.g. keyword-only ID lookup)
  • One channel dominates and the others contribute noise
  • Real-time hot path where the cross-encoder rerank exceeds latency budget (~50-200ms typical) — fall back to RRF without rerank

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 135 lines · 144 tokens per session scan A e87ee3ec0c7b

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rrf-hybrid-retrieval is a skill published in the GitHub repository AnthonyAlcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills (10 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 144 tokens to every session and 1,742 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

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