rag-implementation

rag-implementation is a skill for Claude Code from frank-luongt/faos-skills-marketplace. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,819 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of rag-implementation, Apache-2.0.

A guide to building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, which let an AI find relevant information in documents before answering.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan document question-answering tools, semantic search, documentation assistants, and other AI features based on stored information.
Why use it?
It helps reduce made-up answers by grounding responses in an external knowledge collection.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the faos-ai-engineer plugin — 14 skills, 8 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan document question-answering tools, semantic search, documentation assistants, and other AI features based on stored information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/frank-luongt/faos-skills-marketplace/rag-implementation
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add frank-luongt/faos-skills-marketplace --skill rag-implementation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/frank-luongt/faos-skills-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install faos-ai-engineer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 8 commands.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,819 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 86% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
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Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01409
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00564
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00282

Measured 13d ago against content hash 84ee0155e5d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rag-implementation 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 13d ago.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to rag-implementation — 27 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/faos-ai-engineer/skills/rag-implementation/SKILL.md · 426 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 426 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


name: rag-implementation description: Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for LLM applications with vector databases and semantic search. Use when implementing knowledge-grounded AI, building document Q&A systems, or integrating LLMs with external knowledge bases. tags: [ai, rag]

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

Read the full file on GitHub · 426 lines

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. 13d ago First seen · 426 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 84ee0155e5d4

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rag-implementation is a skill published in the GitHub repository frank-luongt/faos-skills-marketplace (33 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,819 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to rag-implementation, differing in 27 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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