Building a RAG System I Can Explain
TU Dublin CPD Certificate in Foundations of AI — Capstone Project
Published site: https://almac09.github.io/private-rag-assistant/
1 About this project
A local Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline built to understand how RAG actually behaves — where it works, where it fails, and how to evaluate and explain it honestly.
Stack: LangChain · ChromaDB · Ollama · RAGAS · Sphinx · Quarto
3 Project phases
| Phase | Goal | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Repo setup + hello world | ✅ Complete |
| 1 | Document ingestion | ✅ Complete |
| 2 | RAG query pipeline | ✅ Complete |
| 3 | Evaluation harness (RAGAS) | ✅ Complete |
| 4 | Feedback + confidence | 🔄 In progress |
| 5 | Enterprise deployment plan | ⬜ Not started |