# retrieve_raw.py # Verbatim chunk retrieval: vector search + cross-encoder re-ranking, no LLM. # # Returns the top re-ranked chunks with their full text, file metadata, and # scores. Useful for browsing source material directly and verifying what # the RAG pipeline retrieves before LLM synthesis. # # Uses the same vector store, embedding model, and re-ranker as # query_topk_prompt_engine_v3.py, but skips the LLM step entirely. # # E.M.F. February 2026 # Environment vars must be set before importing huggingface/transformers # libraries, because huggingface_hub.constants evaluates HF_HUB_OFFLINE # at import time. import os os.environ["TOKENIZERS_PARALLELISM"] = "false" os.environ["SENTENCE_TRANSFORMERS_HOME"] = "./models" os.environ["HF_HUB_OFFLINE"] = "1" from llama_index.core import ( StorageContext, load_index_from_storage, Settings, ) from llama_index.embeddings.huggingface import HuggingFaceEmbedding from llama_index.core.postprocessor import SentenceTransformerRerank import sys import textwrap # # Globals # # Embedding model (must match build_exp_claude.py) EMBED_MODEL = HuggingFaceEmbedding(cache_folder="./models", model_name="BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5", local_files_only=True) # Cross-encoder model for re-ranking (cached in ./models/) RERANK_MODEL = "cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L-12-v2" RERANK_TOP_N = 15 RETRIEVE_TOP_K = 30 # Output formatting WRAP_WIDTH = 80 def main(): # No LLM needed -- set embed model only Settings.embed_model = EMBED_MODEL # Load persisted vector store storage_context = StorageContext.from_defaults(persist_dir="./storage_exp") index = load_index_from_storage(storage_context) # Build retriever (vector search only, no query engine / LLM) retriever = index.as_retriever(similarity_top_k=RETRIEVE_TOP_K) # Cross-encoder re-ranker reranker = SentenceTransformerRerank( model=RERANK_MODEL, top_n=RERANK_TOP_N, ) # Query if len(sys.argv) < 2: print("Usage: python retrieve_raw.py QUERY_TEXT") sys.exit(1) q = " ".join(sys.argv[1:]) # Retrieve and re-rank nodes = retriever.retrieve(q) reranked = reranker.postprocess_nodes(nodes, query_str=q) # Output print(f"\nQuery: {q}") print(f"Retrieved {len(nodes)} chunks, re-ranked to top {len(reranked)}\n") for i, node in enumerate(reranked, 1): meta = getattr(node, "metadata", None) or node.node.metadata score = getattr(node, "score", None) file_name = meta.get("file_name", "unknown") text = node.get_content() print("="*WRAP_WIDTH) print(f"=== [{i}] {file_name} (score: {score:.3f}) ") print("="*WRAP_WIDTH) # Wrap text for readability for line in text.splitlines(): if line.strip(): print(textwrap.fill(line, width=WRAP_WIDTH)) else: print() print() if __name__ == "__main__": main()