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RAG-Boilerplate

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RAG boilerplate with semantic/propositional chunking, hybrid search (BM25 + dense), LLM reranking, query enhancement agents, CrewAI orchestration, Qdrant vector search, Redis/Mongo sessioning, Celery ingestion pipeline, Gradio UI, and an evaluation suite (Hit-Rate, MRR, hybrid configs).

Dormant2+ majors behindFree
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Why this verdict

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  • No commits in 90 days; last commit 334 days ago. receipt ↗
  • OpenAI SDK 1 declared; latest is 3 (2 majors behind). receipt ↗
  • On current major: Celery, LangChain. receipt ↗
  • Not counted in verdict: FastAPI 0 → 0. receipt ↗

Snapshot: commit 706cb0c on main, checked 2026-10-19 06:39 UTC. Receipts link to files at this exact commit.

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  • Two or more breaking releases behind on a core dependency.

Dependency freshness

PackageDeclaredLatestStatus
OpenAI SDK openai1.109.13.35.12 majors behind
FastAPI fastapi0.120.20.146.0Behind, not counted
Celery celery5.3.15.6.3Current
LangChain langchain1.0.31.4.6Current

Declared = lowest version the kit's dependency file (package.json, pyproject.toml or requirements.txt) allows. Latest = the npm "latest" tag or the newest PyPI release. TypeScript, the Stripe SDK, FastAPI and other 0.x packages are shown but not counted in the verdict.

What's in the stack

Framework
FastAPI
API layer
Uvicorn, Celery

Detected from declared dependencies. A listed package means it's installed, not necessarily fully wired up.

What the README says you get

  • Admin
    Redis and Mongo UIsAnd redis express and mongo UI for educational purposes
  • AI
    LLM rerankingReranks via LLMs
  • AI
    Query enhancement agentUsing query enhancement agent via LLMs
  • AI
    crewAI conversation agentUsing crewAI for conversation+retrieval agent
  • AI
    Chat with dataAllows you to chat with data
  • AI
    Propositional chunkingChunking with propositional model + late chunking, and simple recursive overlap retrieval
  • Data
    Qdrant hybrid searchUsing Qdrant as a Vector DB, utilising its hybrid search (BM25 + Dense Search)
  • Data
    Redis session cachingDividing conversations into sessions, saving/caching in Redis, cold stage to MongoDB
  • Data
    MongoDB cold storageMongoDB : Cold stage database to keep TTL exceeded conversation, also storage of static data (evaluations, etc.)
  • Deploy
    FastAPI servingFastAPI : Serving
  • Deploy
    Celery ingestion tasksCelery : Distributed task management for the long data ingestion projects
  • Deploy
    Docker Compose servicesAfter running `docker-compose up -d`, the following services are available
  • Testing
    Retrieval evaluation dataCreates evaluation data specialised in hit rate, that allows to compare different retrieval combinations (with/without reranker/query enhancer)
  • UI
    Gradio GUIHaving simple GUI on Gradio

Extracted from the kit's README by a local AI model (deepseek-flash) on Sep 29, 2026. Every item is checked against an exact README quote. A README claim is the maker's description, not something we tested.

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