# rag-perf

Runs a profiling pass and an aiperf load test against a deployed NVIDIA RAG Blueprint server, all driven by one YAML config.

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- Author: NVIDIA RAG
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/NVIDIA/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/rag-perf/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
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## What it does

This skill benchmarks a running NVIDIA RAG Blueprint server. The profiling pass reports per-stage timing, citation quality and a bottleneck guess. An optional aiperf load test adds TTFT, end-to-end latency, token and request throughput, and error rate. Everything is config-driven: the CLI takes only `-c / --config`, `--help` and `--version`, so field variations live in YAML.

Three presets ship with it. `quick_profile.yaml` skips the load test for fast iteration on retrieval and reranker tuning. `single_run.yaml` covers one concurrency level for regression checks. `sweep.yaml` turns `load.concurrency`, `rag.vdb_top_k` and `rag.reranker_top_k` into sweep axes — any of them as a list becomes a Cartesian product. Each run prints the fully resolved config, so you can reproduce it from terminal output alone.

Before the first run, clone the repo, install Python 3.11+ and `uv`, then run `uv sync --project scripts/rag-perf` and invoke commands from the repo root. Replace `rag.collection_names: ["<collection_name>"]` with a real collection: the placeholder validates, but every request fails at retrieval. Synthetic queries need an OpenAI-compatible chat-completions endpoint. This is a one-shot benchmark, not monitoring — answer-quality scoring belongs to rag-eval, and deploying or repairing services belongs to rag-blueprint.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill rag-perf -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill rag-perf -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill rag-perf -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install NVIDIA/skills rag-perf
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill rag-perf -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/NVIDIA/skills --path skills/rag-perf
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add NVIDIA/skills --skill rag-perf -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/NVIDIA/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/rag-perf/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- measure TTFT and end-to-end latency of a RAG server
- locate the slow stage in the request pipeline
- compare throughput across concurrency levels
- catch a regression after changing the reranker or top-k
- sweep a grid of retrieval parameters in one run

## Example prompts
- run rag-perf on quick_profile.yaml and show me where the time goes
- sweep concurrency and vdb_top_k, then compute scaling efficiency
- run single_run.yaml and flag zero citations or errors

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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```text
---
name: rag-perf
version: "2.6.0"
description: >-
  Performance benchmarking for a deployed NVIDIA RAG Blueprint server: profiling pass + aiperf
  load test driven by a single YAML config. Not for accuracy / RAGAS scoring (use rag-eval) or
  for deploying / repairing services (use rag-blueprint).
license: Apache-2.0
compatibility: Repository checkout with uv; Python 3.11+; run from repo root; uv sync --project scripts/rag-perf (perf deps live in scripts/rag-perf/pyproject.toml); reachable RAG server (default http://localhost:8081); for synthetic queries an OpenAI-compatible chat-completions endpoint is required (default http://localhost:8999/v1/chat/completions); aiperf load-test phase uses the bundled nvidia_rag endpoint plugin, registered automatically when rag-perf is installed editable.
metadata:
  tool-version: "0.1.0"
  author: NVIDIA RAG <foundational-rag-dev@exchange.nvidia.com>
  github-url: "https://github.com/NVIDIA-AI-Blueprints/rag"
  endpoint-openapi-schemas:
    - docs/api_reference/openapi_schema_rag_server.json
  argument-hint: rag-perf | aiperf | TTFT | latency | throughput | concurrency sweep | bottleneck | retrieval / reranker tuning | profile-only | synthetic queries | quick_profile.yaml | single_run.yaml | sweep.yaml | uv run --project scripts/rag-perf
  tags:
    - nvidia
    - blueprint
    - rag
    - performance
    - benchmarking
    - aiperf
    - nvidia-rag-blueprint
  languages:
    - python
    - shell
  frameworks:
    - aiperf
    - fastapi
  domain: ai-ml
allowed-tools: Read Grep Glob Bash(ls *) Bash(python3 *) Bash(uv *) Bash(cat *) Bash(curl *) Write Edit
---

# RAG-Perf — config-driven perf benchmark CLI

## Purpose

Drive a deployed NVIDIA RAG Blueprint server with a YAML config, run a server-side **profiling pass** (per-stage timing, citation quality, bottleneck inference) and an optional **aiperf load test** (TTFT / E2E / token & request throughput / error rate), and write a unified report. The CLI is intentionally minimal: `rag-perf -c <config>` plus `--help` / `--version`. Behaviour is *fully* config-driven; field variations belong in YAML.

## Scope

- **Accuracy / RAGAS** scoring of answer quality → use the **rag-eval** skill.
- **Deploying, repairing, or configuring services** (compose, helm, NIM env vars) → use the **rag-blueprint** skill.
- **Production monitoring / alerting** — rag-perf is a one-shot benchmark tool.
- **Runtime requirement:** a deployed RAG server reachable on the network.

## Prerequisites

- Repo cloned; **run commands from the repo root** (config paths in the presets are repo-root-relative).
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