RAG Retrieval Pattern Design

chunking            recursive 512-token chunks, 10-20% overlap
embeddings          voyage-3-large (or text-embedding-3-large; pick by MTEB on YOUR domain)
retrieval           hybrid: BM25 + dense, fused via RRF (k=60), top-20
rerank              cross-encoder, return top-5
eval                RAGAS — faithfulness ≥ 0.85, context precision ≥ 0.75
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What this skill does

RAG Retrieval Pattern Design is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the ai-tooling sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/rag-retrieval-pattern-design/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when designing or fixing the retrieval side of a RAG system, choosing chunking strategy (fixed-size / recursive / semantic), implementing hybrid search (BM25 + dense) with RRF fusion, adding a cross-encoder reranker, evaluating with RAGAS, or running an index-freshness pipeline. Triggers: "RAG keeps citing the wrong doc", chunk size 512 tokens with overlap, RRF reciprocal rank fusion, dense+sparse hybrid, cross-encoder rerank top-5, RAGAS faithfulness / context precision, voyage-3-large vs text-embedding-3-large, daily / hourly reindex cadence.

Who uses this skill

The RAG Retrieval Pattern Design Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 115,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/rag-retrieval-pattern-design
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/rag-retrieval-pattern-design/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/rag-retrieval-pattern-design/SKILL.md

Attribution & license

• Source: https://github.com/curiositech/windags-skills/blob/HEAD/skills/rag-retrieval-pattern-design/SKILL.md
• Author: curiositech

@misc{rag-retrieval-pattern-design-2026,
  author    = {curiositech},
  title     = {RAG Retrieval Pattern Design [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/rag-retrieval-pattern-design/}
}

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• llamaindex-agent
• rag-query-transformation
• academic-aio

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