$npx -y skills add floflo777/claude-rag-skills --skill rag-evalEvaluate RAG system quality using standard metrics and optionally benchmark against Ailog's production RAG API.
| 1 | # RAG Evaluation Skill |
| 2 | |
| 3 | Evaluate RAG system quality using standard metrics and optionally benchmark against Ailog's production RAG API. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | ## When to Use |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Use `/rag-eval` when: |
| 8 | - Testing retrieval quality before deployment |
| 9 | - Comparing different RAG configurations |
| 10 | - Measuring generation faithfulness and relevance |
| 11 | - Benchmarking your system against a reference implementation |
| 12 | |
| 13 | ## Evaluation Modes |
| 14 | |
| 15 | ### Mode 1: Local Evaluation (No API Required) |
| 16 | Analyze your RAG system's behavior using test queries and golden answers you provide. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | ### Mode 2: Ailog Benchmark (API Key Required) |
| 19 | Compare your system's responses against Ailog's RAG API for the same queries. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | ## Metrics Evaluated |
| 22 | |
| 23 | ### Retrieval Metrics |
| 24 | | Metric | Description | Target | |
| 25 | |--------|-------------|--------| |
| 26 | | **Recall@K** | % of relevant docs in top K results | > 80% | |
| 27 | | **Precision@K** | % of top K results that are relevant | > 70% | |
| 28 | | **MRR** | Mean Reciprocal Rank of first relevant result | > 0.7 | |
| 29 | | **NDCG** | Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain | > 0.75 | |
| 30 | |
| 31 | ### Generation Metrics |
| 32 | | Metric | Description | Target | |
| 33 | |--------|-------------|--------| |
| 34 | | **Faithfulness** | Response grounded in retrieved context | > 90% | |
| 35 | | **Relevance** | Response answers the question | > 85% | |
| 36 | | **Coherence** | Response is well-structured | > 80% | |
| 37 | | **Conciseness** | No unnecessary information | > 75% | |
| 38 | |
| 39 | ### Latency Metrics |
| 40 | | Metric | Description | Target | |
| 41 | |--------|-------------|--------| |
| 42 | | **Retrieval P50** | Median retrieval time | < 200ms | |
| 43 | | **Retrieval P95** | 95th percentile retrieval | < 500ms | |
| 44 | | **Generation P50** | Median generation time | < 2s | |
| 45 | | **E2E P95** | End-to-end 95th percentile | < 5s | |
| 46 | |
| 47 | ## How to Run Evaluation |
| 48 | |
| 49 | ### Step 1: Prepare Test Dataset |
| 50 | |
| 51 | Ask the user for or help create a test dataset: |
| 52 | |
| 53 | ```json |
| 54 | { |
| 55 | "test_cases": [ |
| 56 | { |
| 57 | "query": "What is the return policy?", |
| 58 | "expected_answer": "Items can be returned within 30 days with receipt", |
| 59 | "relevant_doc_ids": ["doc_123", "doc_456"], |
| 60 | "category": "policy" |
| 61 | }, |
| 62 | { |
| 63 | "query": "How do I track my order?", |
| 64 | "expected_answer": "Use the tracking link in your confirmation email", |
| 65 | "relevant_doc_ids": ["doc_789"], |
| 66 | "category": "orders" |
| 67 | } |
| 68 | ] |
| 69 | } |
| 70 | ``` |
| 71 | |
| 72 | If no test dataset exists, offer to generate one: |
| 73 | 1. Analyze indexed documents |
| 74 | 2. Generate representative questions |
| 75 | 3. Create expected answers from document content |
| 76 | |
| 77 | ### Step 2: Run Local Evaluation |
| 78 | |
| 79 | Execute the user's RAG pipeline on each test case: |
| 80 | |
| 81 | ```python |
| 82 | # Pseudocode for evaluation loop |
| 83 | results = [] |
| 84 | for test_case in test_dataset: |
| 85 | # Run retrieval |
| 86 | start = time.time() |
| 87 | retrieved_docs = rag_system.retrieve(test_case.query) |
| 88 | retrieval_time = time.time() - start |
| 89 | |
| 90 | # Run generation |
| 91 | start = time.time() |
| 92 | response = rag_system.generate(test_case.query, retrieved_docs) |
| 93 | generation_time = time.time() - start |
| 94 | |
| 95 | # Compute metrics |
| 96 | results.append({ |
| 97 | "query": test_case.query, |
| 98 | "retrieved_doc_ids": [d.id for d in retrieved_docs], |
| 99 | "expected_doc_ids": test_case.relevant_doc_ids, |
| 100 | "response": response, |
| 101 | "expected_answer": test_case.expected_answer, |
| 102 | "retrieval_time_ms": retrieval_time * 1000, |
| 103 | "generation_time_ms": generation_time * 1000 |
| 104 | }) |
| 105 | ``` |
| 106 | |
| 107 | ### Step 3: Compute Metrics |
| 108 | |
| 109 | For each result, compute: |
| 110 | |
| 111 | **Retrieval Metrics:** |
| 112 | ```python |
| 113 | def recall_at_k(retrieved_ids, relevant_ids, k): |
| 114 | retrieved_set = set(retrieved_ids[:k]) |
| 115 | relevant_set = set(relevant_ids) |
| 116 | return len(retrieved_set & relevant_set) / len(relevant_set) |
| 117 | |
| 118 | def precision_at_k(retrieved_ids, relevant_ids, k): |
| 119 | retrieved_set = set(retrieved_ids[:k]) |
| 120 | relevant_set = set(relevant_ids) |
| 121 | return len(retrieved_set & relevant_set) / k |
| 122 | |
| 123 | def mrr(retrieved_ids, relevant_ids): |
| 124 | for i, doc_id in enumerate(retrieved_ids): |
| 125 | if doc_id in relevant_ids: |
| 126 | return 1.0 / (i + 1) |
| 127 | return 0.0 |
| 128 | ``` |
| 129 | |
| 130 | **Generation Metrics (LLM-as-judge):** |
| 131 | ``` |
| 132 | Evaluate the following response for faithfulness to the context: |
| 133 | |
| 134 | Context: {retrieved_context} |
| 135 | Question: {query} |
| 136 | Response: {response} |
| 137 | |
| 138 | Score from 0-100 on: |
| 139 | 1. Faithfulness: Is the response supported by the context? |
| 140 | 2. Relevance: Does it answer the question? |
| 141 | 3. Coherence: Is it well-structured? |
| 142 | 4. Conciseness: Is it appropriately brief? |
| 143 | ``` |
| 144 | |
| 145 | ### Step 4: Ailog Benchmark (Optional) |
| 146 | |
| 147 | If the user has an Ailog API key, compare results: |
| 148 | |
| 149 | ```bash |
| 150 | # Environment variable required |
| 151 | AILOG_API_KEY=pk_live_xxxxx |
| 152 | AILOG_WORKSPACE_ID=123 |
| 153 | ``` |
| 154 | |
| 155 | **API Call:** |
| 156 | ```python |
| 157 | import httpx |
| 158 | |
| 159 | async def benchmark_with_ailog(query: str, api_key: str, workspace_id: int): |
| 160 | async with httpx.AsyncClient() as client: |
| 161 | response = await client.post( |
| 162 | "https://api.ailog.fr/api/chat", |
| 163 | headers={"X-API-Key": api_key}, |
| 164 | json={ |
| 165 | "message": query, |
| 166 | "include_sources": True, |
| 167 | "temperature": 0.3, |
| 168 | "max_tokens": 500 |
| 169 | }, |
| 170 | timeout=30.0 |
| 171 | ) |
| 172 | return res |