Ragas is an evaluation framework designed to measure the performance of retrieval-augmented generation pipelines and autonomous agent workflows. It provides a comprehensive suite of tools for benchmarking system outputs, utilizing language models as automated judges to score performance against defined rubrics and reference data. By standardizing inputs, retrieved contexts, and generated responses into a unified schema, the project enables consistent analysis across complex AI applications.
The framework distinguishes itself through its ability to generate synthetic test datasets from existing documents, allowing developers to simulate diverse user queries and scenarios for rigorous testing. It supports component-wise metric decomposition, which isolates the performance of individual retrieval and generation modules to identify specific bottlenecks. Additionally, the project incorporates graph-based knowledge extraction to structure document collections, enabling multi-hop query generation and relationship-based testing that goes beyond simple string matching.
Beyond its core evaluation capabilities, the project offers extensive support for workflow automation, observability, and configuration management. It includes asynchronous execution harnesses for high-throughput testing, integration primitives for various language model providers and orchestration frameworks, and advanced monitoring tools for tracking metrics and execution traces. Users can further customize evaluation logic through prompt-driven metric definitions and automated optimization strategies.
