# rag-observability-evals

A skill for monitoring and evaluating RAG systems: retrieval quality metrics, groundedness checks, hallucination detection and regression testing.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 318 installs · ★ 1177
- Author: devops-skills
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills/tree/HEAD/devops/ai/rag-observability-evals/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-05-22
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/rag-observability-evals

## What it does

This skill treats a RAG pipeline as something you can measure, not a black box. It covers three groups of signals: retrieval quality (Recall@k, MRR, NDCG, source freshness), generation quality (groundedness, hallucination rate, format validity) and reliability with cost (p50/p95 latency split between retrieval and generation, token usage, cache hit rate).

Inside are Python scripts. `rag_eval.py` runs a RAGAS metric suite — faithfulness, answer_relevancy, context_precision, context_recall, context_entity_recall, answer_similarity. `groundedness.py` breaks an answer into claims and labels each one SUPPORTED, PARTIALLY_SUPPORTED or NOT_SUPPORTED. `retrieval_metrics.py` computes Recall@k, MRR and NDCG@k from retrieved and relevant document lists.

You need a RAG pipeline with instrumented retrieval and generation stages, Python 3.10+ with ragas, langchain and openai, a Prometheus endpoint for metric export, a benchmark dataset of question/answer/source triples and the OpenTelemetry SDK in the service. The groundedness script calls `gpt-4o` through `OpenAI()`, so an API key has to be present in the environment — without it the check will not run.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --skill rag-observability-evals -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/rag-observability-evals/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/rag-observability-evals/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --skill rag-observability-evals -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/rag-observability-evals/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --skill rag-observability-evals -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/rag-observability-evals/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills rag-observability-evals
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/rag-observability-evals/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --skill rag-observability-evals -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --path devops/ai/rag-observability-evals
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/rag-observability-evals/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --skill rag-observability-evals -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills/tree/HEAD/devops/ai/rag-observability-evals/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- compute Recall@k and MRR from retrieval logs
- flag claims an answer makes without context support
- compare RAG quality before and after a change
- split latency between retrieval and generation stages
- set a quality gate on pipeline changes

## Example prompts
- run rag_eval.py against eval.json and show me the RAGAS metrics
- score groundedness for the last run and list unsupported claims
- compute Recall@5 and MRR over the retrieval results

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: rag-observability-evals
description: Monitor and evaluate RAG systems with retrieval quality metrics, groundedness checks, hallucination detection, and continuous regression testing.
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  author: devops-skills
  version: "1.0"
---

# RAG Observability and Evaluations

Run retrieval-augmented generation like a measurable production system, not a black box.

## When to Use This Skill

- Deploying a RAG system to production and need quality monitoring
- Setting up automated evaluation pipelines for retrieval and generation
- Debugging hallucination or relevance regressions
- Building dashboards for RAG-specific golden signals
- Establishing quality gates for RAG pipeline changes

## Prerequisites

- RAG pipeline with instrumented retrieval and generation stages
- Python 3.10+ with evaluation libraries (ragas, langchain, openai)
- Prometheus endpoint for custom metrics export
- Benchmark dataset with gold-standard question/answer/source triples
- OpenTelemetry SDK integrated into the RAG service

## What to Measure

### Retrieval Quality
- Recall@k and MRR for top-k chunks
- Citation coverage and source freshness
- Embedding drift and index staleness

### Generation Quality
- Groundedness score (answer supported by retrieved context)
- Hallucination rate by route/use case
- Instruction adherence and format validity

### Reliability and Cost
- p50/p95 latency split by retrieval vs generation
- Token usage per stage
- Cache hit rate and cost per successful answer

## RAGAS Evaluation Script

```python
# rag_eval.py
"""Evaluate RAG pipeline quality using RAGAS metrics."""
from ragas import evaluate
from ragas.metrics import (
    faithfulness,
    answer_relevancy,
    context_precision,
    context_recall,
    context_entity_recall,
    answer_similarity,
)
from datasets import Dataset
import json
import sys

def load_eval_dataset(path: str) -> Dataset:
    """Load evaluation dataset with required columns."""
    with open(path) as f:
        data = json.load(f)

    return Dataset.from_dict({
        "question": [d["question"] for d in data],
        "answer": [d["generated_answer"] for d in data],
        "contexts": [d["retrieved_contexts"] for d in data],
        "ground_truth": [d["reference_answer"] for d in data],
    })
````
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