RAG Quality Checklist
Debugging Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Your RAG pipeline returns confident, well-formatted, completely wrong answers. This checklist walks through every failure point systematically — from document ingestion to final generation.
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Still getting hallucinations in your RAG pipeline?
Download our RAG debug checklist — a systematic walkthrough of chunking, embedding, retrieval, and re-ranking failures we've diagnosed in production systems.
What's covered
Inside the checklist
01
Document Ingestion
- PDF extraction quality
- Encoding consistency
- Metadata preservation
- Document deduplication
02
Chunking Strategy
- Chunk size optimization
- Overlap calibration
- Semantic boundary detection
- Table and code handling
03
Embedding & Retrieval
- Embedding model selection
- Hybrid search (dense + sparse)
- Re-ranking pipeline
- Similarity threshold tuning
04
Generation & Validation
- Context window utilization
- Source attribution
- Hallucination detection
- Answer grounding verification
Next Step
Turn this into a running system
Use this resource to sharpen the engineering decision, then move into the capability path that implements the system with production discipline.
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