When to Use
- When evidence-based analysis, design, or verification preparation is needed around RAG output grounding, relevance, completeness, citation/support, abstention, and answer-level evidence.
- When an Agent, RAG, or LLM solution, result, or evidence needs review, and actionable improvement items need to be formed.
- When input is incomplete but a constrained initial version with assumptions, information gaps, and human decision boundaries still needs to be delivered.
Output Format Options
- Default output is Markdown, organized by domain risk, evidence status, priority, and boundaries.
- When the user requests table, CSV, JSON, or ticket format, retain the same finding fields, evidence, and decision boundaries.
- Before output enters an automated process, first confirm schema, enum values, required fields, and evidence sources.
How to Use
- First read and follow
prompts/rag-quality-testing.md, including input audit, domain coverage, and output order. - Extract scope, environment, version, time window, constraints, success criteria, and available evidence, focusing on grounding, relevance, completeness, citation support, and abstention.
- First distinguish confirmed facts, evidence-supported inferences, candidate recommendations, and Human decisions, then sort by risk and evidence strength.
- Convert high-risk items into preconditions, steps, expected results or judgment criteria, required evidence, and verification methods.
- When information is insufficient, deliver a constrained initial version, clarify which conclusions cannot hold, and do not write static materials as execution results.
Reference Files
-
When calibrating domain results, correct comparisons, or evidence gaps, read references/domain-decision-example.md 's desensitized input, item-by-item expectations, and recalculation basis.
-
Each execution must read
prompts/rag-quality-testing.md; it is the complete execution specification of this Skill. -
When evaluation is needed, read
evals/eval.yamland the matching cases underevals/cases/. -
Only read
references/、examples/、scripts/oroutput-formats.mdwhen the directory actually exists and the task requires it; do not assume assets that do not exist.
Domain Execution Key Points
- Fix query/sample ID, knowledge base/index/retrieval/model/Prompt version; establish a query→retrieved chunk ID/version→atomic claim→citation location→support/contradiction/missing mapping, and do not judge grounding by the presence of citations.
- Evaluate citation accuracy, claim support, and answer completeness separately: omitting required conditions may make an answer incomplete even if all existing claims are supported; judge by the user task and project rubric.
- Use a comparison between answerable within knowledge coverage and should-abstain outside coverage, and separately judge normal task correctness, erroneous abstention, and should-abstain hallucination; abstention rate cannot replace quality.
- When chunks, ground truth, access permissions, or thresholds are missing, keep UNKNOWN/NOT_RUN; distinguish retrieval defects from generation distortion, and report evidence scope and responsible stage.
Core Constraints
- Only analyze RAG output grounding, relevance, completeness, citation/support, abstention, and answer-level evidence; do not replace the business owner's or Human's risk acceptance, exception approval, and safety decisions.
- Do not fabricate system behavior, fields, model outputs, data, thresholds, root causes, execution records, or pass conclusions.
- Static design, plans, file existence, or dry-run can only retain the original evidence status and cannot be upgraded to proof of real execution.
- When evidence is insufficient, use pending confirmation, blocked, unassessed, or NOT_SCORED, and provide the minimum verification method.
- When user data, production, or security is involved, use least privilege, desensitized data, mocks, dry-run, or an isolated environment.
Self-check before delivery
- Grounding, relevance, completeness, citation support, and refusal to answer have been covered, and the source, evidence status, and verification method are recorded for each item.
- Facts, inferences, candidate recommendations, information gaps, and Human decisions have been separated.
- High-risk items have P0/P1/P2/P3 or equivalent priority, responsible roles, and closure conditions.
- Plans, static checks, or dry-runs have not been written as test execution, all passing, or security approval.
- Residual risks, stop/escalation conditions, and next steps have been stated.
Common pitfalls
- Listing only checkpoints without explaining trigger conditions, expected focus points, responsible roles, closure conditions, and evidence.
- Treating test or model tool names from adjacent domains as a complete judgment of RAG quality.
- Using unexplained numbers to create false precision, or writing relevance as causation.
- Directly refusing when the input is incomplete, or conversely pretending the conclusion is already certain.
Best practices
- Start from the path most likely to cause user harm, business loss, or decision blockage.
- Use the smallest verifiable experiment to reduce uncertainty, and record conditions, versions, sources, and evidence.
- Enable another engineer to independently install, execute, and review the output of this Skill.