rag-learning-academy: Skill for Claude Code

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architecture is a skill for Claude Code from TakaGoto/rag-learning-academy. It costs 12 tokens per session (1,028 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided method for designing a retrieval-augmented generation system, which answers questions by finding relevant information in a document collection before generating a response.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan systems such as support chatbots, legal document search, internal knowledge bases, research search, multilingual FAQs, or code-documentation assistants.
Why use it?
It makes the main design choices explicit, including document types, collection size, question patterns, accuracy, speed, scale, and budget.

Skill for Claude Code

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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.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00012 $0.01028
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00514
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00206
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00103

Measured 10d ago against content hash d4badb7fb015, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture 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 10d ago.

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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.

.claude/skills/architecture/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.

Architecture: Design a RAG System for Your Use Case

Guide the learner through the process of designing a complete RAG architecture tailored to a specific use case. This skill builds system design thinking.

Step 1: Understand the Use Case

Ask the learner to describe their use case. If they do not have one, offer example scenarios:

  • Customer support chatbot over product documentation
  • Legal document Q&A for a law firm
  • Internal knowledge base for a software team
  • Research paper search and synthesis
  • Multilingual FAQ system for an e-commerce platform
  • Code documentation assistant

For their use case, gather the following requirements:

  1. Document types: What kinds of documents? (PDFs, HTML, code, structured data)
  2. Corpus size: How many documents? Total size?
  3. Query patterns: What kinds of questions will users ask?
  4. Accuracy requirements: How critical is correctness? (casual chatbot vs. medical advice)
  5. Latency requirements: What response time is acceptable?
  6. Scale: How many queries per day? How often does the corpus update?
  7. Budget constraints: Open-source only, or can you use paid APIs?

Step 2: Walk Through Architecture Decisions

For each component, explain the options and help the learner choose:

Document Processing

  • File format handling and extraction
  • Cleaning and preprocessing steps
  • Metadata extraction strategy

Chunking Strategy

  • Fixed-size, semantic, document-structure, or hybrid
  • Chunk size and overlap recommendations for their document types
  • Metadata to attach to each chunk

Embedding Model

  • Open-source vs. API-based
  • Model size vs. quality trade-off
  • Domain-specific considerations (e.g., code embeddings, multilingual)

Vector Database

  • In-memory (FAISS, Chroma) vs. hosted (Pinecone, Weaviate) vs. self-hosted (Qdrant, Milvus)
  • Filtering and metadata requirements
  • Scale and cost considerations

Retrieval Strategy

  • Dense, sparse, or hybrid search
  • Top-k selection and re-ranking
  • Multi-stage retrieval if needed

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 lines

Changes

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architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository TakaGoto/rag-learning-academy (18 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 1,028 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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