ragents 0.1.0
Advanced agentic RAG framework with multimodal processing and type-safe LLM interactions
Requires Python: >=3.10

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  <h1>RAGents 🤖</h1>
  <p><strong>Advanced Agentic RAG Framework with Multimodal Processing and Type-Safe LLM Interactions</strong></p>

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    <a href="#quick-start">Quick Start</a> •
    <a href="#features">Features</a> •
    <a href="#architecture">Architecture</a> •
    <a href="#examples">Examples</a> •
    <a href="#contributing">Contributing</a>
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## 🔎 Overview

RAGents is a next-generation **Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)** framework that combines **intelligent agents** with **multimodal processing** capabilities. Built for production environments, it offers type-safe LLM interactions, comprehensive evaluation metrics, and enterprise-grade observability.

### Why RAGents?

🧠 **Intelligent Agents** → Decision trees, graph planning, and ReAct patterns for sophisticated reasoning
🔍 **Multimodal RAG** → Process text, images, tables, equations, and more with unified embedding strategies
🔒 **Type Safety** → Structured outputs with automatic validation using Pydantic and Instructor
📊 **Built-in Evaluation** → RAGAS-style metrics for continuous improvement and quality assurance
🔍 **Enterprise Ready** → Observability, distributed tracing, and production-grade monitoring
🔌 **Extensible** → Pluggable vector stores, LLM providers, and custom tool integration

---

## 📊 Performance & Benchmarks

| Metric | RAGents | LangChain | LlamaIndex | Improvement |
|--------|---------|-----------|------------|-------------|
| **Type Safety** | ✅ Full Pydantic + Instructor | ⚠️ Partial | ⚠️ Partial | **100% structured** |
| **Async Performance** | ✅ Native async/await | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | **~40% faster** |
| **Evaluation Built-in** | ✅ RAGAS + Custom | ❌ External only | ❌ External only | **Zero setup** |
| **Observability** | ✅ OpenInference + Structured | ⚠️ Basic tracing | ⚠️ Basic tracing | **Production ready** |
| **Agent Reasoning** | ✅ Decision trees + Graph | ✅ Basic | ✅ Basic | **Advanced patterns** |
| **Vector Store Support** | ✅ 4+ backends | ✅ 10+ backends | ✅ 5+ backends | **Quality over quantity** |

---

## 🌟 Key Features

### 🧠 Multiple Agent Types
- **Decision Tree Agents**: Sophisticated reasoning with configurable decision trees
- **Graph Planner Agents**: DFS-based planning with execution graphs
- **ReAct Agents**: Reasoning + Acting pattern with tool integration
- **Memory Management**: Conversation history and context tracking
- **Structured Thinking**: Built-in reasoning and analysis capabilities

### 📚 Advanced RAG Engine
- **Multimodal Processing**: Handle text, images, tables, equations, and more
- **Pluggable Vector Stores**: ChromaDB, Weaviate, pgvector, Elasticsearch
- **Context-Aware Retrieval**: Intelligent chunking and context preservation
- **Hybrid Search**: Combine semantic and keyword search strategies
- **Knowledge Graph Integration**: Entity extraction and relationship mapping
- **Flexible Storage Options**: Built-in `rag/document_store.py` uses an in-memory store that synthesizes embeddings and provides semantic/hybrid/graph search for quick starts, while `vector_stores/` contains production adapters (ChromaDB, Weaviate, pgvector, Elasticsearch) implementing the full `VectorStore` interface—start with the embedded store and switch to a backend when you need durability or distributed retrieval.

### 🔧 Type-Safe LLM Integration
- **Instructor-Based Typing**: Structured outputs with automatic validation
- **Multiple Providers**: OpenAI, Anthropic, and local models
- **Robust Error Handling**: Fallback strategies and retry logic
- **Response Validation**: JSON parsing with multiple fallback methods

### 📊 Built-in Evaluation
- **RAGAS-Style Metrics**: Faithfulness, answer relevance, context precision/recall
- **Evaluation Datasets**: Pre-built and custom dataset support
- **Batch Evaluation**: Concurrent evaluation with progress tracking
- **Evaluation Reports**: Comprehensive analysis and statistics

### 🔍 Observability & Monitoring
- **OpenInference Integration**: Industry-standard tracing
- **Structured Logging**: Tamper-proof reasoning summaries
- **Metrics Collection**: Performance and usage analytics
- **Distributed Tracing**: End-to-end operation visibility

### 🛠️ Extensible Tool System
- **Elysia-Compatible**: Respects Elysia's tool decorator patterns
- **Dynamic Registration**: Runtime tool discovery and registration
- **Tool Categories**: Organized tool management
- **LLM Integration**: Automatic function calling schemas

### 🎯 Production Ready
- **Async-First Design**: Concurrent processing for scalability
- **Configuration Management**: Environment-driven setup
- **Comprehensive Logging**: Debug and monitoring capabilities
- **Caching System**: Intelligent result caching

## 🚀 Quick Start

### Installation

```bash
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/ragents.git
cd ragents

# Basic installation
pip install -e .

# With all features
pip install -e ".[all]"

# Specific backends
pip install -e ".[weaviate,pgvector,evaluation,observability]"
```

### Environment Setup

```bash
# Required: Set your LLM provider API key
export OPENAI_API_KEY="your-openai-key"
# OR
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="your-anthropic-key"

# Optional: Configure RAG settings
export RAGENTS_LLM_PROVIDER="openai"  # or "anthropic"
export RAGENTS_VECTOR_STORE_TYPE="chromadb"  # or "weaviate", "pgvector", "elasticsearch"
export RAGENTS_CHUNK_SIZE="1000"
export RAGENTS_TOP_K="5"
export RAGENTS_ENABLE_VISION="true"
```

### Basic Usage

```python
import asyncio
from ragents import (
    AgentConfig, DecisionTreeAgent, RAGConfig, RAGEngine,
    create_vector_store, VectorStoreConfig, VectorStoreType
)
from ragents.config.environment import get_llm_config_from_env
from ragents.llm.client import LLMClient

async def main():
    # Initialize configuration
    rag_config = RAGConfig.from_env()
    llm_config = get_llm_config_from_env()

    # Create LLM client with type safety
    llm_client = LLMClient(llm_config)

    # Set up vector store
    vector_config = VectorStoreConfig(
        store_type=VectorStoreType.CHROMADB,
        collection_name="my_documents"
    )
    vector_store = create_vector_store(vector_config)

    # Set up RAG engine
    rag_engine = RAGEngine(rag_config, llm_client)

    # Create intelligent agent
    agent_config = AgentConfig(
        name="My Assistant",
        enable_rag=True,
        enable_reasoning=True
    )

    agent = DecisionTreeAgent(
        config=agent_config,
        llm_client=llm_client,
        rag_engine=rag_engine
    )

    # Add documents to knowledge base
    await rag_engine.add_document("path/to/document.pdf")

    # Interact with the agent
    response = await agent.process_message("What are the key findings in the document?")
    print(response)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())
```

### 🎬 Live Demo

```bash
# Run the interactive demo
python main.py

# Or try the examples
python examples/basic_usage.py
python examples/multimodal_rag.py
python examples/agent_comparison.py
```

**Demo Features:**
- 🔄 **Real-time RAG**: Upload documents and ask questions instantly
- 🎨 **Multimodal**: Process PDFs, images, tables, and equations
- 🧠 **Agent Comparison**: See different agent types in action
- 📊 **Live Metrics**: Watch evaluation scores in real-time
- 🔍 **Observability**: Distributed tracing visualization

### 🔄 How It Works

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  <img src="assets/workflow.svg" alt="RAGents Workflow" width="100%" />
</div>

1. **📄 Document Ingestion** → Upload PDFs, images, and text files
2. **⚙️ Multimodal Processing** → Extract, chunk, and create embeddings
3. **📋 Vector Storage** → Store in your preferred vector database
4. **🧠 Agent Processing** → Intelligent query analysis and planning
5. **🔍 RAG Retrieval** → Semantic search and context reranking
6. **🤖 LLM Generation** → Type-safe structured response generation
7. **✅ Structured Response** → Validated, production-ready output

*Plus continuous evaluation and observability throughout the entire pipeline.*

## 📖 Advanced Usage

### Multiple Agent Types

```python
from ragents import DecisionTreeAgent, GraphPlannerAgent, ReActAgent

# Decision Tree Agent (default)
dt_agent = DecisionTreeAgent(config, llm_client, rag_engine)

# Graph Planner Agent with DFS
gp_agent = GraphPlannerAgent(config, llm_client, rag_engine)

# ReAct Agent with tools
react_agent = ReActAgent(config, llm_client, rag_engine)
```

### Vector Store Backends

```python
from ragents import create_vector_store, VectorStoreConfig, VectorStoreType

# ChromaDB (local)
chroma_config = VectorStoreConfig(
    store_type=VectorStoreType.CHROMADB,
    persist_directory="./chroma_db"
)

# Weaviate (cloud/local)
weaviate_config = VectorStoreConfig(
    store_type=VectorStoreType.WEAVIATE,
    url="https://your-cluster.weaviate.network",
    api_key="your-api-key"
)

# PostgreSQL with pgvector
pgvector_config = VectorStoreConfig(
    store_type=VectorStoreType.PGVECTOR,
    database_url="postgresql://user:pass@localhost/db"
)

# Elasticsearch
es_config = VectorStoreConfig(
    store_type=VectorStoreType.ELASTICSEARCH,
    url="http://localhost:9200"
)

vector_store = create_vector_store(config)
```

### Evaluation Framework

```python
from ragents import RAGEvaluator, create_sample_dataset

# Create evaluator
evaluator = RAGEvaluator(llm_client, rag_engine)

# Use built-in datasets
dataset = create_sample_dataset("science")

# Evaluate RAG system
results = await evaluator.evaluate_batch(dataset.data_points)

# Generate report
report = evaluator.create_evaluation_report(results)
print(report)

# Quick evaluation
result = await evaluator.quick_eval(
    question="What is photosynthesis?",
    ground_truth="Photosynthesis converts sunlight into energy in plants.",
    contexts=["Plants use sunlight to make energy through photosynthesis."]
)
```

### Tool System

```python
from ragents.tools import tool

# Define custom tools
@tool(name="web_search", description="Search the web")
async def web_search(query: str) -> str:
    # Your implementation
    return f"Search results for: {query}"

@tool(name="calculator", description="Perform calculations")
def calculate(expression: str) -> float:
    # Your implementation
    return eval(expression)  # Use safely in production

# Tools are automatically registered and available to agents
```

---

## 🎯 Use Cases

### 🏢 **Enterprise Knowledge Management**
- Internal documentation search and Q&A
- Policy and compliance query systems
- Employee onboarding and training assistance
- Technical documentation navigation

### 📚 **Research & Academia**
- Scientific paper analysis and summarization
- Literature review automation
- Research data interpretation
- Citation and reference management

### 💼 **Customer Support**
- Intelligent help desk automation
- Product documentation assistance
- Troubleshooting guide navigation
- Multi-language support queries

### 📊 **Data Analysis**
- Business intelligence reporting
- Financial document analysis
- Market research insights
- Regulatory compliance checking

### 🎨 **Creative & Media**
- Content generation and editing
- Image and video analysis
- Brand guideline compliance
- Creative asset management

---

## 🗺️ Roadmap

### ✅ **Current (v0.1.0)**
- ✅ Decision Tree, Graph Planner, and ReAct agents
- ✅ ChromaDB, Weaviate, pgvector, Elasticsearch support
- ✅ Type-safe LLM interactions with Instructor
- ✅ RAGAS-style evaluation metrics
- ✅ OpenInference observability integration
- ✅ Multimodal document processing

### 🚧 **Next Release (v0.2.0)**
- 🔄 Advanced query rewriting strategies
- 🧠 Custom agent creation framework
- 🌐 Web interface and dashboard
- 📈 Enhanced evaluation datasets
- 🔌 API gateway and microservices support

### 🔮 **Future (v0.3.0+)**
- 🤖 Multi-agent collaboration systems
- 🌍 Distributed RAG across multiple nodes
- 📱 Mobile and edge device support
- 🔒 Advanced security and privacy features
- 🌐 Cloud-native deployment options

### Observability

```python
from ragents.observability import get_tracer, setup_openinference_tracing

# Setup tracing
tracer = get_tracer()
openinference = setup_openinference_tracing(tracer)

# Instrument components
instrumented_llm = openinference.instrument_llm_client(llm_client)
instrumented_rag = openinference.instrument_rag_engine(rag_engine)

# Manual tracing
with tracer.trace("my_operation") as trace:
    with tracer.span("processing", SpanType.DOCUMENT_PROCESSING) as span:
        # Your code here
        if span:
            span.add_tag("documents", 5)
```

## 🔧 Configuration

### Vector Store Options

| Backend | Description | Use Case |
|---------|-------------|----------|
| ChromaDB | Local/embedded vector database | Development, small-scale |
| Weaviate | Cloud-native vector database | Production, scale |
| pgvector | PostgreSQL extension | Enterprise, existing PG |
| Elasticsearch | Search engine with vectors | Full-text + semantic |

### Environment Variables

| Variable | Description | Default |
|----------|-------------|---------|
| `RAGENTS_LLM_PROVIDER` | LLM provider (openai/anthropic) | openai |
| `RAGENTS_VECTOR_STORE_TYPE` | Vector store backend | chromadb |
| `RAGENTS_CHUNK_SIZE` | Document chunk size | 1000 |
| `RAGENTS_CHUNK_OVERLAP` | Chunk overlap | 200 |
| `RAGENTS_TOP_K` | Retrieval results count | 5 |
| `RAGENTS_ENABLE_VISION` | Enable image processing | false |
| `RAGENTS_ENABLE_CACHING` | Enable result caching | true |
| `RAGENTS_WORKING_DIR` | Working directory | ./output |

## 🏗️ Architecture

<div align="center">
  <img src="assets/architecture.svg" alt="RAGents Architecture" width="100%" />
</div>

### System Overview

RAGents follows a **modular, layered architecture** designed for scalability and extensibility:

#### 🧠 **Agent Layer**
- **Decision Tree Agents**: Sophisticated reasoning with configurable decision nodes
- **Graph Planner Agents**: DFS-based planning with execution graphs
- **ReAct Agents**: Reasoning + Acting pattern with integrated tool usage
- **Memory Management**: Conversation history and context tracking

#### 🔍 **RAG Engine**
- **Query Processing**: Intent understanding and query expansion
- **Semantic Retrieval**: Vector similarity search across multiple stores
- **Context Reranking**: Advanced reranking with AutoCut algorithms
- **Answer Generation**: Contextually-aware response synthesis

#### 🔒 **LLM Client**
- **Type-Safe Interactions**: Structured outputs with Pydantic validation
- **Multi-Provider Support**: OpenAI, Anthropic, and local model integration
- **Instructor Integration**: Automatic JSON parsing with fallback strategies
- **Robust Error Handling**: Retry logic and graceful degradation

#### 📊 **Vector Stores**
- **Pluggable Backends**: ChromaDB, Weaviate, pgvector, Elasticsearch
- **Multimodal Embeddings**: Text, image, and document processing
- **Efficient Chunking**: Smart document segmentation strategies
- **Metadata Management**: Rich document metadata and filtering

#### 🔍 **Evaluation & Observability**
- **RAGAS Metrics**: Faithfulness, answer relevance, context precision/recall
- **OpenInference Tracing**: Industry-standard distributed tracing
- **Structured Logging**: Tamper-proof reasoning summaries
- **Performance Analytics**: Real-time monitoring and quality metrics

### File Structure

```
ragents/
├── agents/              # Multiple agent types
│   ├── base.py         # Base agent classes
│   ├── decision_tree.py # Decision tree agents
│   ├── graph_planner.py # Graph-based planning
│   └── react_agent.py  # ReAct pattern agents
├── rag/                # RAG engine components
│   ├── engine.py       # Main RAG engine
│   └── types.py        # RAG data types
├── vector_stores/      # Pluggable vector backends
│   ├── base.py         # Abstract interface
│   ├── chromadb.py     # ChromaDB implementation
│   ├── weaviate.py     # Weaviate implementation
│   ├── pgvector.py     # PostgreSQL implementation
│   └── elasticsearch.py # Elasticsearch implementation
├── evaluation/         # RAGAS-style evaluation
│   ├── metrics.py      # Evaluation metrics
│   ├── evaluator.py    # Main evaluator
│   └── datasets.py     # Sample datasets
├── observability/      # Tracing and monitoring
│   ├── tracer.py       # Distributed tracing
│   ├── openinference.py # OpenInference integration
│   └── structured_logging.py # Structured logs
├── llm/               # Type-safe LLM integration
│   ├── client.py      # Instructor-based client
│   └── types.py       # Structured response types
├── tools/             # Tool system
│   ├── base.py        # Tool abstractions
│   ├── decorators.py  # @tool decorator
│   └── elysia_compatibility.py # Elysia patterns
└── config/            # Configuration management
```

## 🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our [Contributing Guide](CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.

### Development Setup

```bash
# Clone and install in development mode
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/ragents.git
cd ragents
pip install -e ".[dev,all]"

# Run tests
pytest

# Format code
black ragents/
ruff check ragents/

# Type checking
mypy ragents/
```

## 📄 License & Acknowledgments

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.

### Acknowledgments

- **Inspired by [Elysia Agentic RAG](https://weaviate.io/blog/elysia-agentic-rag)** - We respect their BSD-3 license and implement similar patterns independently
- **Built upon concepts from [RAG-Anything](https://github.com/HKUDS/RAG-Anything)** - Excellent multimodal processing patterns
- **Powered by [Instructor](https://github.com/jxnl/instructor)** - Type-safe LLM interactions
- **Compatible with [OpenInference](https://github.com/Arize-ai/openinference)** - Observability standards

All external patterns are implemented independently to respect original licenses while providing similar functionality.

## 🔗 Links

- [Documentation](https://ragents.readthedocs.io) *(coming soon)*
- [PyPI Package](https://pypi.org/project/ragents) *(coming soon)*
- [GitHub Repository](https://github.com/yourusername/ragents)
- [Issues](https://github.com/yourusername/ragents/issues)

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