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Stdlib-only modules under scripts/eval/retrieval: dataset validation, file-level recall@k / MRR / nDCG@k, results files and the per-question baseline diff. Covered by tests/unit/test_retrieval_eval.py, which needs neither the SDK nor a running stack.
21 original Markdown documents for a fictional product and 83 hand-labeled questions tagged semantic, keyword, exact-token and multi-doc.
run ingests the corpus under run-unique filenames, sends every question through /v1/search scoped to those files, scores and reports the run, and deletes what it uploaded. compare diffs two results files offline.
… CI (#2478) Adds scripts/eval/** to the backend test and lint workflow path filters so a change to the harness alone still runs its unit tests, Ruff and mypy.
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WalkthroughThis pull request adds a retrieval evaluation harness with a documentation corpus and 83 labeled questions. It validates datasets, scores search results, runs evaluations against a stack, and writes reports that compare results with an earlier run. Backend workflows now include evaluation-directory changes. ChangesRetrieval evaluation harness
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~50 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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participant run_eval.py
participant dataset.py
participant OpenRAG SDK
participant Search stack
participant report.py
Operator->>run_eval.py: Start evaluation
run_eval.py->>dataset.py: Validate corpus and queries
run_eval.py->>OpenRAG SDK: Upload uniquely named documents
OpenRAG SDK->>Search stack: Index documents
run_eval.py->>OpenRAG SDK: Search uploaded-document scope
OpenRAG SDK->>Search stack: Return matching chunks
run_eval.py->>report.py: Score and write results
run_eval.py->>OpenRAG SDK: Delete documents unless retained
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Reverts 76b8b0e. The space changed the corpus hash, so comparisons against earlier results warned that the corpus differed.
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eval-validate, eval-run, eval-baseline and eval-compare wrap the uv commands in scripts/eval/retrieval. BASELINE, CURRENT and EVAL_ARGS pass files and options through.
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- Line 1350: Update the eval-baseline target so its copy uses the output
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…rieval evaluation harness (#2478) Builds each framework out against the same corpus and labeled questions, documents install weight, schema fit and non-LLM-mode caveats found while testing, and explains why the homegrown harness is kept for phase 1. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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eval-baseline always copied from the hardcoded results/results.json, so an --output-dir override passed via EVAL_ARGS would silently copy stale or missing data as the baseline. Add an OUTPUT_DIR make variable that eval-run, eval-baseline and eval-compare all use consistently instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Medium — Reject comparisons with no shared primary cutoff
In scripts/eval/retrieval/report.py:161-169, comparing --k 2,4 with a baseline using 1,3,5,10 silently drops recall and nDCG because the current primary cutoff is absent from the baseline. If reciprocal rank is unchanged, a real recall regression is classified as unchanged. Please reject comparisons without a shared cutoff, or choose a cutoff available in both runs.
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Medium — Validate the fetch limit against requested cutoffs
In scripts/eval/retrieval/run_eval.py:75-80, --fetch-limit can be zero, negative, or smaller than the largest requested --k. The harness can then report recall@k and nDCG@k without retrieving enough chunks to evaluate that cutoff. Please require a positive fetch limit at least as large as the largest requested cutoff before ingestion starts
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Low — Preserve brackets in saved IPv6 target URLs
redact_url() removes the brackets from IPv6 hosts, so http://[::1]:3000 is recorded as the invalid URL http://::1:3000. The evaluation request uses the original URL, so scores are unaffected, but the printed target and saved results are incorrect. Please restore brackets when rebuilding an IPv6 URL.
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Fixed in 8fb18b0: redact_url() now puts the brackets back on IPv6 hosts, so http://[::1]:3000 is recorded as-is. Added [::1] and a credentialed [2001:db8::1] case to the existing test.
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Summary
Adds the phase 1 retrieval evaluation harness from #2478: a fixed document set, labeled questions, and a script that measures how well
/v1/searchfinds the right documents. It lets us compare search quality before and after a change to search, chunking or embeddings, and see which questions got better or worse.No backend or search code is changed. Everything lives in
scripts/eval/retrieval/and uses only the public API through the Python SDK.What is included
corpus/(21 Markdown documents for a fictional product) andqueries.jsonl(83 questions)/v1/search, computes recall@k, MRR and nDCG@krun_eval.py run--baseline FILEonrun, and an offlinecomparecommandscripts/eval/retrieval/README.mdAlso included: 29 unit tests (
tests/unit/test_retrieval_eval.py) andscripts/eval/**added to the path filters of the backend test and lint workflows.How it works
/v1/search, limited to the files that run uploaded.results.jsonandsummary.md, and deletes the files it uploaded.Documents already in the stack are never returned, changed or deleted.
Results on a live stack
Local stack, watsonx embeddings (
ibm/granite-embedding-278m-multilingual), chunk size 1000, overlap 200.The chunk-size comparison listed 19 regressed and 12 improved questions and warned that the chunk settings differed between the two runs.
Findings worth knowing
duplicate_contentbut still counted insuccessful_files. The harness therefore marks each upload with its run ID and checks per-file status.Not in this PR
Per the issue, these are out of scope for phase 1: a CI gate on scores, a committed baseline, PDF documents, and judging chat answer quality.
Testing
uv run --locked pytest tests/unit -q: 2629 passed, 2 skipped, 17 xfailed--keep-documentsAddresses #2478 (phase 1).
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