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Agent Tools

David Mezzetti — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:15:20 +0000

AI-driven software development is all the rage in 2026. If you look online, you'll find a endless stream of proclaimations such as "software development is dead", "anyone can code now" and "if you're not doing AI-driven software development you're a dinosaur". The same philosophy is now expanding to office-based work in general.

Astute developers and business professionals have already taken a look at this new paradigm and have started making their minds up on how it can help them. There is no right answer, plenty of people haven't adapted and they're still happily working. TxtAI has a simple yet robust framework for agents and local AI-driven development.

The next release will add Agent Tools which is a set of tools to connect agents with the operating system. Tools such as reading, writing and finding files add an extremely simple but effective way to work with data.

Let's get started!

Install dependencies

Install txtai and all dependencies.

%%capture
!pip install git+https://github.com/neuml/txtai#egg=txtai[agent]

# Get working files
!git clone https://github.com/neuml/txtai
!wget -N https://github.com/neuml/txtai/releases/download/v6.2.0/tests.tar.gz
!mkdir files
!tar -xvzf tests.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C files

Create the Agent

The first step is creating a TxtAI agent. The agent is an LLM with access to a set of tools. In this case, we'll use a Qwen 3 Coder LLM along with the default toolkit. This toolkit has the following tools.

Tool	Description
bash	Runs a shell command through subprocess
edit	Edits a file in place and returns a diff
glob	Finds matching file patterns in a directory
grep	Finds matching file content in a directory
python	Runs a Python action
read	Reads file or url content, supports text extraction
todowrite	Generates a task list to organize complex tasks
websearch	Runs a websearch using the built-in websearch tool
webview	Extracts content from a web page. Alias for `read` tool
write	Writes content to file

The default toolkit adds the ability to interact with the local file system and OS.

from txtai import Agent

agent = Agent(llm={
  "path": "unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-Q3_K_M.gguf",
  "n_ctx": 30000
}, tools=["defaults"])

Search a directory for content

Of course we can build a search index for files and then an interace to search that index and even rephrase the results with an LLM. This is the basic idea behind Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).

But as modern coding tools are now showing, just scanning a file system and letting the LLM parse through the content is another compelling option. This example does just that! It looks in a directory to answer a question.

agent("Look in the files directory and figure out what's the recommended LLM to use")

╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────── New run ────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│                                                                                                                 │
│ Look in the files directory and figure out what's the recommended LLM to use                                    │
│                                                                                                                 │
╰─ PipelineModel - unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-Q3_K_M.gguf ────────────╯

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│ Calling tool: 'glob' with arguments: {'files': '*'}                                                             │
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Observations: |'files', 'agenttools.ipynb', 'txtai', 'tests.tar.gz']

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│ Calling tool: 'glob' with arguments: {'files': 'files/*'}                                                       │
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Observations: |'files/tabular.csv', 'files/books.jpg', 'files/article.pdf', 'files/US_tops_5_million.wav', 
'files/The_National_Park.wav', 'files/Make_huge_profits.wav', 'files/Maine_man_wins_1_mil.wav', 
'files/Canadas_last_fully.wav', 'files/Beijing_mobilises.wav', 'files/buildings.jpg', 'files/chop.jpg', 
'files/clock.jpg', 'files/computer.jpg', 'files/fall.jpg', 'files/map.jpg', 'files/motorcycle.jpg', 
'files/night.jpg', 'files/stars.jpg', 'files/document.docx', 'files/document.pdf', 'files/spreadsheet.xlsx']

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│ Calling tool: 'read' with arguments: {'path': 'files/document.pdf'}                                             │
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Observations: txtai – the all-in-one embeddings database
txtai is an all-in-one embeddings database for semantic search, LLM orchestration and 
language model workflows.

Summary of txtai features:

• Vector search with SQL, object storage, topic modeling
• Create embeddings for text, documents, audio, images and video
• Pipelines powered by language models that run LLM prompts
• Workflows to join pipelines together and aggregate business logic
• Build with Python or YAML. API bindings available for JavaScript, Java, Rust and Go.
• Run local or scale out with container orchestration

Examples
List of example notebooks.

Notebook Description
Introducing txtai Overview of the functionality provided by txtai
Similarity search with 
images Embed images and text into the same space for search

Build a QA database Question matching with semantic search
Semantic Graphs Explore topics, data connectivity and run network analysis

Install
The easiest way to install is via pip and PyPI

pip install txtai

Python 3.8+ is supported. Using a Python virtual environment is recommended.

See the detailed install instructions for more information covering optional dependencies, 
environment specific prerequisites, installing from source, conda support and how to run with 
containers.

Model guide
The following shows a list of suggested models.

Component Model(s)
Embeddings all-MiniLM-L6-v2

E5-base-v2
Image Captions BLIP
Labels - Zero Shot BART-Large-MNLI

Labels - Fixed Fine-tune with training 
pipeline

Large Language Model 
(LLM) Flan T5 XL

Mistral 7B OpenOrca
Summarization DistilBART
Text-to-Speech ESPnet JETS
Transcription Whisper
Translation OPUS Model Series

- txtai – the all-in-one embeddings database
- Examples
- Install
- Model guide

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│ Calling tool: 'read' with arguments: {'path': 'files/document.docx'}                                            │
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Observations: # txtai – the all-in-one embeddings database
txtai is an all-in-one embeddings database for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows.

Summary of txtai features:
· *Vector search* with SQL, object storage, topic modeling
· Create *embeddings* for text, documents, audio, images and video
· *Pipelines* powered by language models that run LLM prompts
· *Workflows* to join pipelines together and aggregate business logic
· Build with *Python* or *YAML* . API bindings available for JavaScript, Java, Rust and Go.
· *Run local or scale out with container orchestration* 

## Examples
List of example notebooks.
|Notebook|Description|
|---|---|
|Introducing txtai |Overview of the functionality provided by txtai|
|Similarity search with images|Embed images and text into the same space for search|
|Build a QA database|Question matching with semantic search|
|Semantic Graphs|Explore topics, data connectivity and run network analysis|

## Install
The easiest way to install is via pip and PyPI
pip install txtai
Python 3.8+ is supported. Using a Python virtual environment is **recommended** .
See the detailed install instructions for more information covering optional dependencies, environment specific 
prerequisites, installing from source, conda support and how to run with containers.

## Model guide
The following shows a list of suggested models.
|Component|Model(s)|
|---|---|
|Embeddings|all-MiniLM-L6-v2|
||E5-base-v2|
|Image Captions|BLIP|
|Labels - Zero Shot|BART-Large-MNLI|
|Labels - Fixed|Fine-tune with training pipeline|
|Large Language Model (LLM)|Flan T5 XL|
||Mistral 7B OpenOrca|
|Summarization|DistilBART|
|Text-to-Speech|ESPnet JETS|
|Transcription|Whisper|
|Translation|OPUS Model Series|

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╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Calling tool: 'final_answer' with arguments: {'answer': 'The recommended LLMs according to the txtai            │
│ documentation are: Flan T5 XL and Mistral 7B OpenOrca'}                                                         │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Observations: The recommended LLMs according to the txtai documentation are: Flan T5 XL and Mistral 7B OpenOrca

Final answer: The recommended LLMs according to the txtai documentation are: Flan T5 XL and Mistral 7B OpenOrca

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'The recommended LLMs according to the txtai documentation are: Flan T5 XL and Mistral 7B OpenOrca'

As we can see, the Agent stepped through the files and found the answer. One of the most powerful tools in the txtai agent toolkit is the read tool. It doesn't just simply read raw files, it has the ability to extract text from common document formats such as DOC, XLS, PDF. As you see above, the agent looked through text files, documents and PDFs as if they were all text files.

agent("Research txtai and write a markdown file with some facts about it")

╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────── New run ────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│                                                                                                                 │
│ Research txtai and write a markdown file with some facts about it                                               │
│                                                                                                                 │
╰─ PipelineModel - unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-Q3_K_M.gguf ────────────╯

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│ Calling tool: 'web_search' with arguments: {'query': 'txtai AI library python'}                                 │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Observations: ## Search Results

|txtai · PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/txtai/)
☁️ Run local or scale out with container orchestration txtai is built with Python 3.10+, Hugging Face Transformers,
Sentence Transformers and FastAPI. txtai is open-source under an Apache 2.0 license. |!NOTE] NeuML is the company
behind txtai and we provide AI consulting services around our stack. Schedule a meeting or send a message to ...

|GitHub - neuml/txtai.py: Python client for txtai · GitHub](https://github.com/neuml/txtai.py)
Python client for txtai txtai is an all-in-one AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language
model workflows. This repository contains Python bindings for the txtai API. This is a minimal dependency library
for Python designed for use cases where txtai is running through the API. In all other cases, txtai should be
installed directly.

|Installation - txtai - GitHub Pages](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/install/)
txtai is an all-in-one open-source AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model
workflows

|01_Introducing_txtai.ipynb -
Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/github/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/01_Introducing_txtai.ipynb)
Introducing txtai txtai is an all-in-one AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model
workflows. The key component of txtai is an embeddings database, which is a union of vector indexes (sparse and
dense), graph networks and relational databases.

|Introducing txtai, the all-in-one AI framework -
Medium](https://medium.com/neuml/introducing-txtai-the-all-in-one-ai-framework-0660ecfc39d7)
Introducing txtai txtai is an all-in-one AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model
workflows.

|GitHub - neuml/txtai: All-in-one AI framework for semantic search ...](https://github.com/neuml/txtai)
All-in-one AI framework txtai is an all-in-one AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language
model workflows. The key component of txtai is an embeddings database, which is a union of vector indexes (sparse
and dense), graph networks and relational databases.

|Examples - txtai - GitHub Pages](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/examples/)
txtai is an all-in-one open-source AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model
workflows

|txtai-py · PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/txtai-py/)
txtai is an all-in-one AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows. This
repository contains Python bindings for the txtai API. This is a minimal dependency library for Python designed for
use cases where txtai is running through the API. In all other cases, txtai should be installed directly.

|GitHub - neuml/txtai.py: Python client for txtai](https://github.jpy.wang/neuml/txtai.py)
txtai is an all-in-one AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows. This
repository contains Python bindings for the txtai API. This is a minimal dependency library for Python designed for
use cases where txtai is running through the API. In all other cases, txtai should be installed directly.

|txtai 9.6.0 on PyPI - Libraries.io - security & maintenance data for ...](https://libraries.io/pypi/txtai)
All-in-one open-source AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows - 9.6.0 - a
Python package on PyPI

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│ Calling tool: 'read' with arguments: {'path': 'https://github.com/neuml/txtai'}                                 │
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Observations: **GitHub - neuml/txtai: 💡 All-in-one AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and 
language model workflows · GitHub**

*💡 All-in-one AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows - neuml/txtai*

**All-in-one AI framework** 
txtai is an all-in-one AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows.

The key component of txtai is an embeddings database, which is a union of vector indexes (sparse and dense), graph 
networks and relational databases.

This foundation enables vector search and/or serves as a powerful knowledge source for large language model (LLM) 
applications.

Build autonomous agents, retrieval augmented generation (RAG) processes, multi-model workflows and more.

Summary of txtai features:

- 🔎 Vector search with SQL, object storage, topic modeling, graph analysis and multimodal indexing
- 📄 Create embeddings for text, documents, audio, images and video
- 💡 Pipelines powered by language models that run LLM prompts, question-answering, labeling, transcription, 
translation, summarization and more
- ↪️️ Workflows to join pipelines together and aggregate business logic. txtai processes can be simple microservices
or multi-model workflows.
- 🤖 Agents that intelligently connect embeddings, pipelines, workflows and other agents together to autonomously 
solve complex problems
- ⚙️ Web and Model Context Protocol (MCP) APIs. Bindings available for 
|JavaScript](https://github.com/neuml/txtai.js) , |Java](https://github.com/neuml/txtai.java) , 
|Rust](https://github.com/neuml/txtai.rs) and |Go](https://github.com/neuml/txtai.go) .
- 🔋 Batteries included with defaults to get up and running fast
- ☁️ Run local or scale out with container orchestration
txtai is built with Python 3.10+, |Hugging Face Transformers](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers) , 
|Sentence Transformers](https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers) and 
|FastAPI](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi) . txtai is open-source under an Apache 2.0 license.

Note

|NeuML](https://neuml.com) is the company behind txtai and we provide AI consulting services around our stack. 
|Schedule a meeting](https://cal.com/neuml/intro) or |send a message](mailto:info@neuml.com) to learn more.

We're also building an easy and secure way to run hosted txtai applications with |txtai.cloud](https://txtai.cloud)
.

## Why txtai?
New vector databases, LLM frameworks and everything in between are sprouting up daily. Why build with txtai?

- Up and running in minutes with |pip](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/install/) or 
|Docker](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/cloud/)

 
```python
# Get started in a couple lines
import txtai

embeddings = txtai.Embeddings()
embeddings.index(|"Correct", "Not what we hoped"])
embeddings.search("positive", 1)
#|(0, 0.29862046241760254)]
```



- Built-in API makes it easy to develop applications using your programming language of choice


```yaml
# app.yml
embeddings:
 path: sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2
```





```shell
CONFIG=app.yml uvicorn "txtai.api:app"
curl -X GET "http://localhost:8000/search?query=positive"
```



- Run local - no need to ship data off to disparate remote services
- Work with micromodels all the way up to large language models (LLMs)
- Low footprint - install additional dependencies and scale up when needed
- |Learn by example](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/examples) - notebooks cover all available functionality

## Use Cases
The following sections introduce common txtai use cases. A comprehensive set of over 70 |example notebooks and 
applications](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/examples) are also available.

### Semantic Search
Build semantic/similarity/vector/neural search applications.

Traditional search systems use keywords to find data. Semantic search has an understanding of natural language and 
identifies results that have the same meaning, not necessarily the same keywords.

Get started with the following examples.

|Notebook|Description||
|---|---|---|
||Introducing txtai](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/01_Introducing_txtai.ipynb) |Overview of 
the functionality provided by txtai||
||Similarity search with 
images](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/13_Similarity_search_with_images.ipynb) |Embed images 
and text into the same space for search||
||Build a QA database](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/34_Build_a_QA_database.ipynb) |Question 
matching with semantic search||
||Semantic Graphs](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/38_Introducing_the_Semantic_Graph.ipynb) 
|Explore topics, data connectivity and run network analysis||

### LLM Orchestration
Autonomous agents, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), chat with your data, pipelines and workflows that 
interface with large language models (LLMs).

See below to learn more.

|Notebook|Description||
|---|---|---|
||Prompt templates and task 
chains](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/44_Prompt_templates_and_task_chains.ipynb) |Build model
prompts and connect tasks together with workflows||
||Integrate LLM frameworks](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/53_Integrate_LLM_Frameworks.ipynb) 
|Integrate llama.cpp, LiteLLM and custom generation frameworks||
||Build knowledge graphs with 
LLMs](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/57_Build_knowledge_graphs_with_LLM_driven_entity_extracti
on.ipynb) |Build knowledge graphs with LLM-driven entity extraction||
||Parsing the stars with 
txtai](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/72_Parsing_the_stars_with_txtai.ipynb) |Explore an 
astronomical knowledge graph of known stars, planets, galaxies||

#### Agents
Agents connect embeddings, pipelines, workflows and other agents together to autonomously solve complex problems.

txtai agents are built on top of the |smolagents](https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents) framework. This 
supports all LLMs txtai supports (Hugging Face, llama.cpp, OpenAI / Claude / AWS Bedrock via LiteLLM). Agent 
prompting with |agents.md](https://github.com/agentsmd/agents.md) and 
|skill.md](https://agentskills.io/specification) are also supported.

Check out this |Agent Quickstart Example](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/agent_quickstart.py) 
. Additional examples are listed below.

|Notebook|Description||
|---|---|---|
||Analyzing Hugging Face Posts with Graphs and 
Agents](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/68_Analyzing_Hugging_Face_Posts_with_Graphs_and_Agents.
ipynb) |Explore a rich dataset with Graph Analysis and Agents||
||Granting autonomy to 
agents](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/69_Granting_autonomy_to_agents.ipynb) |Agents that 
iteratively solve problems as they see fit||
||Analyzing LinkedIn Company Posts with Graphs and 
Agents](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/71_Analyzing_LinkedIn_Company_Posts_with_Graphs_and_Age
nts.ipynb) |Exploring how to improve social media engagement with AI||

#### Retrieval augmented generation
Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) reduces the risk of LLM hallucinations by constraining the output with a 
knowledge base as context. RAG is commonly used to "chat with your data".

Check out this |RAG Quickstart Example](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/rag_quickstart.py) . 
Additional examples are listed below.

|Notebook|Description||
|---|---|---|
||Build RAG pipelines with 
txtai](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/52_Build_RAG_pipelines_with_txtai.ipynb) |Guide on 
retrieval augmented generation including how to create citations||
||RAG is more than Vector 
Search](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/79_RAG_is_more_than_Vector_Search.ipynb) |Context 
retrieval via Web, SQL and other sources||
||GraphRAG with Wikipedia and GPT 
OSS](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/77_GraphRAG_with_Wikipedia_and_GPT_OSS.ipynb) |Deep graph 
search powered RAG||
||Speech to Speech RAG](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/65_Speech_to_Speech_RAG.ipynb) |Full 
cycle speech to speech workflow with RAG||

### Language Model Workflows
Language model workflows, also known as semantic workflows, connect language models together to build intelligent 
applications.

While LLMs are powerful, there are plenty of smaller, more specialized models that work better and faster for 
specific tasks. This includes models for extractive question-answering, automatic summarization, text-to-speech, 
transcription and translation.

Check out this |Workflow Quickstart 
Example](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/workflow_quickstart.py) . Additional examples are 
listed below.

|Notebook|Description||
|---|---|---|
||Run pipeline workflows](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/14_Run_pipeline_workflows.ipynb) 
|Simple yet powerful constructs to efficiently process data||
||Building abstractive text 
summaries](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/09_Building_abstractive_text_summaries.ipynb) |Run 
abstractive text summarization||
||Transcribe audio to text](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/11_Transcribe_audio_to_text.ipynb) 
|Convert audio files to text||
||Translate text between 
languages](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/12_Translate_text_between_languages.ipynb) 
|Streamline machine translation and language detection||

## Installation
The easiest way to install is via pip and PyPI



```shell
pip install txtai
```



Python 3.10+ is supported. Using a Python |virtual environment](https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html) is 
recommended.

See the detailed |install instructions](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/install) for more information covering 
|optional dependencies](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/install/#optional-dependencies) , |environment specific 
prerequisites](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/install/#environment-specific-prerequisites) , |installing from 
source](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/install/#install-from-source) , |conda 
support](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/install/#conda) and how to |run with 
containers](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/cloud) .

## Model guide
See the table below for the current recommended models. These models all allow commercial use and offer a blend of 
speed and performance.

|Component|Model(s)|
|---|---|
||Embeddings](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/embeddings) 
||all-MiniLM-L6-v2](https://hf.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2) |
||Image Captions](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/image/caption) 
||BLIP](https://hf.co/Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-base) |
||Labels - Zero Shot](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/text/labels) 
||BART-Large-MNLI](https://hf.co/facebook/bart-large) |
||Labels - Fixed](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/text/labels) |Fine-tune with |training 
pipeline](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/train/trainer) |
||Large Language Model (LLM)](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/text/llm) 
||gpt-oss-20b](https://huggingface.co/openai/gpt-oss-20b) |
||Summarization](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/text/summary) 
||DistilBART](https://hf.co/sshleifer/distilbart-cnn-12-6) |
||Text-to-Speech](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/audio/texttospeech) ||ESPnet 
JETS](https://hf.co/NeuML/ljspeech-jets-onnx) |
||Transcription](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/audio/transcription) 
||Whisper](https://hf.co/openai/whisper-base) |
||Translation](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/text/translation) ||OPUS Model 
Series](https://hf.co/Helsinki-NLP) |
Models can be loaded as either a path from the Hugging Face Hub or a local directory. Model paths are optional, 
defaults are loaded when not specified. For tasks with no recommended model, txtai uses the default models as shown
in the Hugging Face Tasks guide.

See the following links to learn more.

## Powered by txtai
The following applications are powered by txtai.

|Application|Description|
|---|---|
||rag](https://github.com/neuml/rag) |Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) application|
||ncoder](https://github.com/neuml/ncoder) |Open-Source AI coding agent|
||paperai](https://github.com/neuml/paperai) |AI for medical and scientific papers|
||annotateai](https://github.com/neuml/annotateai) |Automatically annotate papers with LLMs|
In addition to this list, there are also many other |open-source 
projects](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/network/dependents) , |published 
research](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=txtai&hl=en&as_ylo=2022) and closed proprietary/commercial projects 
that have built on txtai in production.

## Further Reading
- |Tutorial series on Hashnode](https://neuml.hashnode.dev/series/txtai-tutorial) | 
|dev.to](https://dev.to/neuml/tutorial-series-on-txtai-ibg) 
- |What's new in txtai 9.0](https://medium.com/neuml/whats-new-in-txtai-9-0-d522bb150afa) | 
|8.0](https://medium.com/neuml/whats-new-in-txtai-8-0-2d7d0ab4506b) | 
|7.0](https://medium.com/neuml/whats-new-in-txtai-7-0-855ad6a55440) | 
|6.0](https://medium.com/neuml/whats-new-in-txtai-6-0-7d93eeedf804) | 
|5.0](https://medium.com/neuml/whats-new-in-txtai-5-0-e5c75a13b101) | 
|4.0](https://medium.com/neuml/whats-new-in-txtai-4-0-bbc3a65c3d1c) 
- |Getting started with semantic 
search](https://medium.com/neuml/getting-started-with-semantic-search-a9fd9d8a48cf) | 
|workflows](https://medium.com/neuml/getting-started-with-semantic-workflows-2fefda6165d9) | 
|rag](https://medium.com/neuml/getting-started-with-rag-9a0cca75f748) 

## Documentation
|Full documentation on txtai](https://neuml.github.io/txtai) including configuration settings for embeddings, 
pipelines, workflows, API and a FAQ with common questions/issues is available.

## Contributing
For those who would like to contribute to txtai, please see |this 
guide](https://github.com/neuml/.github/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) .

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Observations: **txtai**

*txtai is an all-in-one open-source AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model 
workflows*

**All-in-one AI framework** 
txtai is an all-in-one AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows.

The key component of txtai is an embeddings database, which is a union of vector indexes (sparse and dense), graph 
networks and relational databases.

This foundation enables vector search and/or serves as a powerful knowledge source for large language model (LLM) 
applications.

Build autonomous agents, retrieval augmented generation (RAG) processes, multi-model workflows and more.

Summary of txtai features:

- 🔎 Vector search with SQL, object storage, topic modeling, graph analysis and multimodal indexing
- 📄 Create embeddings for text, documents, audio, images and video
- 💡 Pipelines powered by language models that run LLM prompts, question-answering, labeling, transcription, 
translation, summarization and more
- ↪️️ Workflows to join pipelines together and aggregate business logic. txtai processes can be simple microservices
or multi-model workflows.
- 🤖 Agents that intelligently connect embeddings, pipelines, workflows and other agents together to autonomously 
solve complex problems
- ⚙️ Web and Model Context Protocol (MCP) APIs. Bindings available for 
|JavaScript](https://github.com/neuml/txtai.js) , |Java](https://github.com/neuml/txtai.java) , 
|Rust](https://github.com/neuml/txtai.rs) and |Go](https://github.com/neuml/txtai.go) .
- 🔋 Batteries included with defaults to get up and running fast
- ☁️ Run local or scale out with container orchestration
txtai is built with Python 3.10+, |Hugging Face Transformers](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers) , 
|Sentence Transformers](https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers) and 
|FastAPI](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi) . txtai is open-source under an Apache 2.0 license.

Note

|NeuML](https://neuml.com) is the company behind txtai and we provide AI consulting services around our stack. 
|Schedule a meeting](https://cal.com/neuml/intro) or |send a message](mailto:info@neuml.com) to learn more.

We're also building an easy and secure way to run hosted txtai applications with |txtai.cloud](https://txtai.cloud)
.

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Observations: **Installation - txtai**

*txtai is an all-in-one open-source AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model 
workflows*

# Installation
The easiest way to install is via pip and PyPI



```shell
pip install txtai
```



Python 3.10+ is supported. Using a Python |virtual environment](https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html) is 
recommended.

## Optional dependencies
txtai has the following optional dependencies that can be installed as extras. The patterns below are supported
in setup.py install_requires sections.

*Note: Extras are provided for convenience. Alternatively, individual packages can be installed to limit 
dependencies.* 

### All
Install all dependencies.



```shell
pip install txtai|all]
```



### ANN
Additional ANN backends.



```shell
pip install txtai|ann]
```



### API
Serve txtai via a web API.



```shell
pip install txtai|api]
```



### Cloud
Interface with cloud compute.



```shell
pip install txtai|cloud]
```



### Console
Command line index query console.



```shell
pip install txtai|console]
```



### Database
Additional content storage options.



```shell
pip install txtai|database]
```



### Graph
Topic modeling, data connectivity and network analysis.



```shell
pip install txtai|graph]
```



### Model
Additional non-standard models.



```shell
pip install txtai|model]
```



### Pipeline
All pipelines - default install comes with most common pipelines.



```shell
pip install txtai|pipeline]
```



More granular extras are available for pipeline categories: pipeline-audio, pipeline-data, pipeline-image, 
pipeline-llm, pipeline-text, and pipeline-train.

### Scoring
Additional scoring methods.



```shell
pip install txtai|scoring]
```



### Vectors
Additional vector methods.



```shell
pip install txtai|vectors]
```



### Workflow
All workflow tasks - default install comes with most common workflow tasks.



```shell
pip install txtai|workflow]
```



### Combining dependencies
Multiple dependencies can be specified at the same time.



```shell
pip install txtai|pipeline,workflow]
```



## Environment specific prerequisites
Additional environment specific prerequisites are below.

### Linux
The AudioStream and Microphone pipelines require the 
|PortAudio](https://python-sounddevice.readthedocs.io/en/0.5.0/installation.html) system library. The Transcription
pipeline requires the |SoundFile](https://github.com/bastibe/python-soundfile#installation) system library.

### macOS
Older versions of Faiss have a runtime dependency on libomp for macOS. Run brew install libomp in this case.

The AudioStream and Microphone pipelines require the 
|PortAudio](https://python-sounddevice.readthedocs.io/en/0.5.0/installation.html) system library. Run brew install 
portaudio.

### Windows
Optional dependencies require |C++ Build Tools](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/)

The |txtai build workflow](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/.github/workflows/build.yml) occasionally has
work arounds for other known but temporary dependency issues. The |FAQ](../faq) also has a list of common problems,
including common installation issues.

## CPU-only
The default install adds PyTorch with GPU support. There are a number of dependencies that come with that. When 
running in a CPU-only environment or using Embeddings/LLM models without PyTorch (i.e. llama.cpp or API services), 
the CPU-only PyTorch package can be installed with txtai as follows.



```shell
pip install txtai torch==|version]+cpu \
-f https://download.pytorch.org/whl/torch
```



Where |version] is the version of PyTorch (such as 2.4.1). The 
|txtai-cpu](https://hub.docker.com/r/neuml/txtai-cpu) image on Docker Hub uses this method to reduce the image 
size.

## Install from source
txtai can also be installed directly from GitHub to access the latest, unreleased features.



```shell
pip install git+https://github.com/neuml/txtai
```



Extras can be installed from GitHub by adding #egg=txtai|<name-of-extra>] to the end of the above URL.

## Conda
A |community-supported txtai package](https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/txtai) is available via conda-forge.



```shell
conda install -c conda-forge txtai
```



## Run with containers
Docker images are available for txtai. |See this section](../cloud) for more information on container-based 
installs.

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│ orchestration, and language model workflows. It\'s built with Python 3.10+, Hugging Face Transformers, Sentence │
│ Transformers, and FastAPI, and is licensed under Apache 2.0.\n\n## Key Features\n\n- **Vector Search**:         │
│ Semantic search with SQL, object storage, topic modeling, graph analysis, and multimodal indexing\n-            │
│ **Embeddings**: Create embeddings for text, documents, audio, images, and video\n- **Language Model             │
│ Pipelines**: Run LLM prompts, question-answering, labeling, transcription, translation, summarization and       │
│ more\n- **Workflows**: Join pipelines together and aggregate business logic\n- **Agents**: Intelligently        │
│ connect embeddings, pipelines, workflows and other agents to autonomously solve complex problems\n- **API       │
│ Support**: Web and Model Context Protocol (MCP) APIs with bindings for JavaScript, Java, Rust, and Go\n-        │
│ **Local/Cloud Deployment**: Run locally or scale out with container orchestration\n\n## Core Components\n\nThe  │
│ key component of txtai is an embeddings database, which is a union of:\n- Vector indexes (sparse and dense)\n-  │
│ Graph networks\n- Relational databases\n\nThis foundation enables vector search and/or serves as a powerful     │
│ knowledge source for large language model (LLM) applications.\n\n## Use Cases\n\n### Semantic Search\n- Build   │
│ semantic/similarity/vector/neural search applications\n- Traditional search systems use keywords; semantic      │
│ search understands natural language\n\n### LLM Orchestration\n- Autonomous agents\n- Retrieval Augmented        │
│ Generation (RAG)\n- Chat with your data\n- Multi-model workflows\n\n### Language Model Workflows\n- Connect     │
│ language models together to build intelligent applications\n- Specialized models for extractive                 │
│ question-answering, automatic summarization, text-to-speech, transcription, and translation\n\n##               │
│ Installation\n\nThe easiest way to install is via pip:\n\n

```bash\npip install txtai\n```

\n\nOptional           │
│ dependencies can be installed as extras:\n\n

```bash\npip install txtai[all]  # Install all dependencies\npip    │
│ install txtai[api]  # Serve txtai via a web API\npip install txtai[workflow]  # All workflow tasks\n```

\n\n##   │
│ Technology Stack\n\n- Built with Python 3.10+\n- Hugging Face Transformers\n- Sentence Transformers\n-          │
│ FastAPI\n\n## Supported Models\n\n- Embeddings: all-MiniLM-L6-v2\n- Image Captions: BLIP\n- Labels (Zero Shot): │
│ BART-Large-MNLI\n- Large Language Model (LLM): gpt-oss-20b\n- Summarization: DistilBART\n- Text-to-Speech:      │
│ ESPnet JETS\n- Transcription: Whisper\n- Translation: OPUS Model Series\n\n## Company Behind txtai\n\nNeuML is  │
│ the company behind txtai and provides AI consulting services around their stack. They also offer hosted         │
│ solutions through txtai.cloud.\n\n## Applications Powered by txtai\n\n- RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)\n- │
│ ncoder (Open-Source AI coding agent)\n- PaperAI (AI for medical and scientific papers)\n- AnnotateAI            │
│ (Automatically annotate papers with LLMs)\n\n## Getting Started\n\nSimple example to get                        │
│ started:\n\n

```python\nimport txtai\n\nembeddings = txtai.Embeddings()\nembeddings.index(["Correct", "Not what  │
│ we hoped"])\nembeddings.search("positive", 1)\n# [(0, 0.29862046241760254)]\n```

\n\n## Documentation\n\nFull    │
│ documentation is available at [txtai Documentation](https://neuml.github.io/txtai)\n'}                          │
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Observations: I've created a comprehensive markdown file with facts about txtai. The file 'txtai_facts.md' contains
detailed information about txtai including its overview, key features, use cases, installation instructions, 
technology stack, supported models, and more.

Final answer: I've created a comprehensive markdown file with facts about txtai. The file 'txtai_facts.md' contains
detailed information about txtai including its overview, key features, use cases, installation instructions, 
technology stack, supported models, and more.

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The read tool also supports reading web content seamlessly. This example ran web searches, read a few webpages then write it's research to a Markdown file. If it worked correctly the output file should look similar to this.

# txtai - All-in-One AI Framework

## Overview

txtai is an all-in-one open-source AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration, and language model workflows. It's built with Python 3.10+, Hugging Face Transformers, Sentence Transformers, and FastAPI, and is licensed under Apache 2.0.

## Key Features

- **Vector Search**: Semantic search with SQL, object storage, topic modeling, graph analysis, and multimodal indexing
- **Embeddings**: Create embeddings for text, documents, audio, images, and video
- **Language Model Pipelines**: Run LLM prompts, question-answering, labeling, transcription, translation, summarization and more
- **Workflows**: Join pipelines together and aggregate business logic
- **Agents**: Intelligently connect embeddings, pipelines, workflows and other agents to autonomously solve complex problems
- **API Support**: Web and Model Context Protocol (MCP) APIs with bindings for JavaScript, Java, Rust, and Go
- **Local/Cloud Deployment**: Run locally or scale out with container orchestration

Summarize content in a Technical Article

The next example will read the BERT paper and summarize it. Once again, the read tool will get the text so the LLM can process the content.

agent("Read https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.04805 and write a summary about it", maxlength=25000)

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│                                                                                                                 │
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Observations: BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for
Language Understanding

Jacob Devlin Ming-Wei Chang Kenton Lee Kristina Toutanova
Google AI Language

{jacobdevlin,mingweichang,kentonl,kristout}@google.com

Abstract

We introduce a new language representa-
tion model called BERT, which stands for
Bidirectional Encoder Representations from
Transformers. Unlike recent language repre-
sentation models (Peters et al., 2018a; Rad-
ford et al., 2018), BERT is designed to pre-
train deep bidirectional representations from
unlabeled text by jointly conditioning on both
left and right context in all layers. As a re-
sult, the pre-trained BERT model can be fine-
tuned with just one additional output layer
to create state-of-the-art models for a wide
range of tasks, such as question answering and
language inference, without substantial task-
specific architecture modifications.
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╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Calling tool: 'write' with arguments: {'path': 'bert_summary.txt', 'content': 'BERT: Pre-training of Deep       │
│ Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding\n\nSummary:\n\nBERT (Bidirectional Encoder                │
│ Representations from Transformers) is a language representation model introduced by Google AI Language          │
│ researchers. Unlike previous approaches that used unidirectional language models, BERT uses a bidirectional     │
│ approach to pre-train deep representations from unlabeled text.\n\nKey innovations of BERT include:\n\n1.       │
│ Bidirectional Pre-training: Unlike previous models like OpenAI GPT that use left-to-right language models, BERT │
│ uses a masked language model (MLM) pre-training objective that allows it to condition on both left and right    │
│ context in all layers.\n\n2. Two Pre-training Tasks: BERT uses two unsupervised pre-training tasks - Masked     │
│ Language Model (predicting masked tokens) and Next Sentence Prediction (understanding relationships between     │
│ sentences).\n\n3. Unified Architecture: BERT uses the same architecture for both pre-training and fine-tuning,  │
│ with minimal differences between the two stages.\n\n4. Fine-tuning Approach: BERT can be fine-tuned with just   │
│ one additional output layer for various downstream tasks, without substantial task-specific architecture        │
│ modifications.\n\nPerformance Improvements:\n\nBERT achieved state-of-the-art results on 11 natural language    │
│ processing tasks, including:\n- GLUE score of 80.5% (7.7% absolute improvement)\n- MultiNLI accuracy of 86.7%   │
│ (4.6% absolute improvement)\n- SQuAD v1.1 question answering Test F1 of 93.2 (1.5 point absolute                │
│ improvement)\n- SQuAD v2.0 Test F1 of 83.1 (5.1 point absolute improvement)\n\nThe model comes in two sizes:    │
│ BERTBASE (L=12, H=768, A=12) and BERTLARGE (L=24, H=1024, A=16) with 110M and 340M parameters                   │
│ respectively.\n\nBERT demonstrated that bidirectional pre-training is crucial for language representations and  │
│ that pre-trained representations significantly reduce the need for heavily-engineered task-specific             │
│ architectures.'}                                                                                                │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Observations: None

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╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Calling tool: 'final_answer' with arguments: {'answer': "I've written a summary of the BERT paper to the file   │
│ 'bert_summary.txt'. The summary covers BERT's key innovations including bidirectional pre-training using masked │
│ language models and next sentence prediction, its unified architecture approach, and its state-of-the-art       │
│ performance on 11 NLP tasks."}                                                                                  │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Observations: I've written a summary of the BERT paper to the file 'bert_summary.txt'. The summary covers BERT's 
key innovations including bidirectional pre-training using masked language models and next sentence prediction, its
unified architecture approach, and its state-of-the-art performance on 11 NLP tasks.

Final answer: I've written a summary of the BERT paper to the file 'bert_summary.txt'. The summary covers BERT's 
key innovations including bidirectional pre-training using masked language models and next sentence prediction, its
unified architecture approach, and its state-of-the-art performance on 11 NLP tasks.

[Step 3: Duration 2.25 seconds]

"I've written a summary of the BERT paper to the file 'bert_summary.txt'. The summary covers BERT's key innovations including bidirectional pre-training using masked language models and next sentence prediction, its unified architecture approach, and its state-of-the-art performance on 11 NLP tasks."

When this step works properly, the output file will look something like below.

BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding

Summary:

BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) is a language representation model introduced by Google AI Language researchers. Unlike previous approaches that used unidirectional language models, BERT uses a bidirectional approach to pre-train deep representations from unlabeled text.

Searching a code base

Next let's see if the agent can look in the txtai codebase and find a RAG example.

agent("Look for a RAG demo in the ./txtai/examples directory. Print the file content.", maxlength=10000)

╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────── New run ────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│                                                                                                                 │
│ Look for a RAG demo in the ./txtai/examples directory. Print the file content.                                  │
│                                                                                                                 │
╰─ PipelineModel - unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-Q3_K_M.gguf ────────────╯

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╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Calling tool: 'glob' with arguments: {'files': './txtai/examples/*rag*'}                                        │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Observations: |'./txtai/examples/rag_quickstart.py']

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╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Calling tool: 'read' with arguments: {'path': './txtai/examples/rag_quickstart.py'}                             │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Observations: """
RAG Quick Start
Easy to use way to get started with RAG using YOUR data

For a complete application see this: https://github.com/neuml/rag

TxtAI has many example notebooks covering everything the framework provides
Examples: https://neuml.github.io/txtai/examples

Install TxtAI
 pip install txtai|pipeline-data]
"""

# pylint: disable=C0103
import os

from txtai import Embeddings, RAG
from txtai.pipeline import Textractor

# Step 1: Collect files from local directory
#
# Defaults to "data". Set to whereever your files are.
path = "data"
files = |os.path.join(path, f) for f in os.listdir(path) if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(path, f))]

# Step 2: Text Extraction / Chunking
#
# Using section based chunking here. More complex options available such as semantic chunking, iterative chunking 
etc.
# Documentation: https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/data/textractor
# Supports Chonkie chunking as well: https://docs.chonkie.ai/oss/chunkers/overview
textractor = Textractor(backend="docling", sections=True)
chunks = |]
for f in files:
 for chunk in textractor(f):
 chunks.append((f, chunk))

# Step 3: Build an embeddings database
#
# The `path` parameter sets the vector embeddings model. Supports Hugging Face models, llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM and 
more.
# Documentation: https://neuml.github.io/txtai/embeddings/
embeddings = Embeddings(content=True, path="Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B", maxlength=2048)
embeddings.index(chunks)

# Step 4: Create RAG pipeline
#
# Combines an embeddings database and an LLM.
# Supports Hugging Face models, llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM and more
# Documentation: https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/text/rag

# User prompt template
template = """
 Answer the following question using the provided context.

 Question:
 {question}

 Context:
 {context}
"""

rag = RAG(
 embeddings,
 "Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B",
 system="You are a friendly assistant",
 template=template,
 output="flatten",
)

question = "Summarize the main advancements made by BERT"
print(rag(question, maxlength=2048, stripthink=True))

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╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Calling tool: 'final_answer' with arguments: {'answer': 'Found RAG demo in ./txtai/examples/rag_quickstart.py.  │
│ Here is its content:\n\n

```\nRAG Quick Start\nEasy to use way to get started with RAG using YOUR data\n\nFor a  │
│ complete application see this: https://github.com/neuml/rag\n\nTxtAI has many example notebooks covering        │
│ everything the framework provides\nExamples: https://neuml.github.io/txtai/examples\n\nInstall TxtAI\n pip      │
│ install txtai[pipeline-data]\n\n# pylint: disable=C0103\nimport os\n\nfrom txtai import Embeddings, RAG\nfrom   │
│ txtai.pipeline import Textractor\n\n# Step 1: Collect files from local directory\n#\n# Defaults to "data". Set  │
│ to whereever your files are.\npath = "data"\nfiles = [os.path.join(path, f) for f in os.listdir(path) if        │
│ os.path.isfile(os.path.join(path, f))]\n\n# Step 2: Text Extraction / Chunking\n#\n# Using section based        │
│ chunking here. More complex options available such as semantic chunking, iterative chunking etc.\n#             │
│ Documentation: https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/data/textractor\n# Supports Chonkie chunking as well:     │
│ https://docs.chonkie.ai/oss/chunkers/overview\ntextractor = Textractor(backend="docling",                       │
│ sections=True)\nchunks = []\nfor f in files:\n for chunk in textractor(f):\n  chunks.append((f, chunk))\n\n#    │
│ Step 3: Build an embeddings database\n#\n# The `path` parameter sets the vector embeddings model. Supports      │
│ Hugging Face models, llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM and more.\n# Documentation:                                        │
│ https://neuml.github.io/txtai/embeddings/\nembeddings = Embeddings(content=True,                                │
│ path="Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B", maxlength=2048)\nembeddings.index(chunks)\n\n# Step 4: Create RAG             │
│ pipeline\n#\n# Combines an embeddings database and an LLM.\n# Supports Hugging Face models, llama.cpp, Ollama,  │
│ vLLM and more\n# Documentation: https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/text/rag\n\n# User prompt                │
│ template\ntemplate = """\n Answer the following question using the provided context.\n\n Question:\n            │
│ {question}\n\n Context:\n {context}\n"""\n\nrag = RAG(\n embeddings,\n "Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B",\n system="You are a   │
│ friendly assistant",\n template=template,\n output="flatten",\n)\n\nquestion = "Summarize the main advancements │
│ made by BERT"\nprint(rag(question, maxlength=2048, stripthink=True))\n```

'}                                     │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Observations: Found RAG demo in ./txtai/examples/rag_quickstart.py. Here is its content:



```python
RAG Quick Start
Easy to use way to get started with RAG using YOUR data

For a complete application see this: https://github.com/neuml/rag

TxtAI has many example notebooks covering everything the framework provides
Examples: https://neuml.github.io/txtai/examples

Install TxtAI
 pip install txtai|pipeline-data]

# pylint: disable=C0103
import os

from txtai import Embeddings, RAG
from txtai.pipeline import Textractor

# Step 1: Collect files from local directory
#
# Defaults to "data". Set to whereever your files are.
path = "data"
files = |os.path.join(path, f) for f in os.listdir(path) if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(path, f))]

# Step 2: Text Extraction / Chunking
#
# Using section based chunking here. More complex options available such as semantic chunking, iterative chunking 
etc.
# Documentation: https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/data/textractor
# Supports Chonkie chunking as well: https://docs.chonkie.ai/oss/chunkers/overview
textractor = Textractor(backend="docling", sections=True)
chunks = |]
for f in files:
 for chunk in textractor(f):
  chunks.append((f, chunk))

# Step 3: Build an embeddings database
#
# The `path` parameter sets the vector embeddings model. Supports Hugging Face models, llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM and 
more.
# Documentation: https://neuml.github.io/txtai/embeddings/
embeddings = Embeddings(content=True, path="Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B", maxlength=2048)
embeddings.index(chunks)

# Step 4: Create RAG pipeline
#
# Combines an embeddings database and an LLM.
# Supports Hugging Face models, llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM and more
# Documentation: https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/text/rag

# User prompt template
template = """
 Answer the following question using the provided context.

 Question:
 {question}

 Context:
 {context}
"""

rag = RAG(
 embeddings,
 "Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B",
 system="You are a friendly assistant",
 template=template,
 output="flatten",
)

question = "Summarize the main advancements made by BERT"
print(rag(question, maxlength=2048, stripthink=True))
```

Final answer: Found RAG demo in ./txtai/examples/rag_quickstart.py. Here is its content:



```
RAG Quick Start
Easy to use way to get started with RAG using YOUR data

For a complete application see this: https://github.com/neuml/rag

TxtAI has many example notebooks covering everything the framework provides
Examples: https://neuml.github.io/txtai/examples

Install TxtAI
 pip install txtai[pipeline-data]

# pylint: disable=C0103
import os

from txtai import Embeddings, RAG
from txtai.pipeline import Textractor

# Step 1: Collect files from local directory
#
# Defaults to "data". Set to whereever your files are.
path = "data"
files = [os.path.join(path, f) for f in os.listdir(path) if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(path, f))]

# Step 2: Text Extraction / Chunking
#
# Using section based chunking here. More complex options available such as semantic chunking, iterative chunking 
etc.
# Documentation: https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/data/textractor
# Supports Chonkie chunking as well: https://docs.chonkie.ai/oss/chunkers/overview
textractor = Textractor(backend="docling", sections=True)
chunks = []
for f in files:
 for chunk in textractor(f):
  chunks.append((f, chunk))

# Step 3: Build an embeddings database
#
# The `path` parameter sets the vector embeddings model. Supports Hugging Face models, llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM and 
more.
# Documentation: https://neuml.github.io/txtai/embeddings/
embeddings = Embeddings(content=True, path="Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B", maxlength=2048)
embeddings.index(chunks)

# Step 4: Create RAG pipeline
#
# Combines an embeddings database and an LLM.
# Supports Hugging Face models, llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM and more
# Documentation: https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/text/rag

# User prompt template
template = """
 Answer the following question using the provided context.

 Question:
 {question}

 Context:
 {context}
"""

rag = RAG(
 embeddings,
 "Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B",
 system="You are a friendly assistant",
 template=template,
 output="flatten",
)

question = "Summarize the main advancements made by BERT"
print(rag(question, maxlength=2048, stripthink=True))
```

[Step 3: Duration 7.66 seconds]

    'Found RAG demo in ./txtai/examples/rag_quickstart.py. Here is its content:\n\n```

\nRAG Quick Start\nEasy to use way to get started with RAG using YOUR data\n\nFor a complete application see this: https://github.com/neuml/rag\n\nTxtAI has many example notebooks covering everything the framework provides\nExamples: https://neuml.github.io/txtai/examples\n\nInstall TxtAI\n pip install txtai[pipeline-data]\n\n# pylint: disable=C0103\nimport os\n\nfrom txtai import Embeddings, RAG\nfrom txtai.pipeline import Textractor\n\n# Step 1: Collect files from local directory\n#\n# Defaults to "data". Set to whereever your files are.\npath = "data"\nfiles = [os.path.join(path, f) for f in os.listdir(path) if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(path, f))]\n\n# Step 2: Text Extraction / Chunking\n#\n# Using section based chunking here. More complex options available such as semantic chunking, iterative chunking etc.\n# Documentation: https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/data/textractor\n# Supports Chonkie chunking as well: https://docs.chonkie.ai/oss/chunkers/overview\ntextractor = Textractor(backend="docling", sections=True)\nchunks = []\nfor f in files:\n for chunk in textractor(f):\n  chunks.append((f, chunk))\n\n# Step 3: Build an embeddings database\n#\n# The `path` parameter sets the vector embeddings model. Supports Hugging Face models, llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM and more.\n# Documentation: https://neuml.github.io/txtai/embeddings/\nembeddings = Embeddings(content=True, path="Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B", maxlength=2048)\nembeddings.index(chunks)\n\n# Step 4: Create RAG pipeline\n#\n# Combines an embeddings database and an LLM.\n# Supports Hugging Face models, llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM and more\n# Documentation: https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/text/rag\n\n# User prompt template\ntemplate = """\n Answer the following question using the provided context.\n\n Question:\n {question}\n\n Context:\n {context}\n"""\n\nrag = RAG(\n embeddings,\n "Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B",\n system="You are a friendly assistant",\n template=template,\n output="flatten",\n)\n\nquestion = "Summarize the main advancements made by BERT"\nprint(rag(question, maxlength=2048, stripthink=True))\n

```'

As we can see, the Agent searched the codebase and found the best RAG example.

Building code with AI

Ok, now let's do some AI-driven software development. We're going to build a Python program that generates the song "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and plays it using TxtAI's audio stream pipeline.

agent((
    "Play twinkle twinkle little star song using simple notes translated to frequencies and the txtai audio stream pipeline. "
    "The txtai code is available in txtai/src"
), maxlength=25000)

╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────── New run ────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│                                                                                                                 │
│ Play twinkle twinkle little star song using simple notes translated to frequencies and the txtai audio stream   │
│ pipeline. The txtai code is available in txtai/src                                                              │
│                                                                                                                 │
╰─ PipelineModel - unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-Q3_K_M.gguf ────────────╯

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╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Calling tool: 'bash' with arguments: {'command': ['ls', '-la', 'txtai/']}                                       │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Observations: total 440
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-rw-r--r--. 1 user user 301691 Mar 16 08:20 apps.jpg
-rw-r--r--. 1 user user    417 Mar 16 08:20 CITATION.cff
-rw-r--r--. 1 user user    170 Mar 16 08:20 .coveragerc
-rw-r--r--. 1 user user  41536 Mar 16 08:20 demo.gif
drwxr-xr-x. 7 user user    140 Mar 16 08:20 docker
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drwxr-xr-x. 7 user user    240 Mar 16 08:20 .git
drwxr-xr-x. 3 user user     60 Mar 16 08:20 .github
-rw-r--r--. 1 user user     99 Mar 16 08:20 .gitignore
-rw-r--r--. 1 user user  10754 Mar 16 08:20 LICENSE
-rw-r--r--. 1 user user  16973 Mar 16 08:20 logo.png
-rw-r--r--. 1 user user   2416 Mar 16 08:20 Makefile
-rw-r--r--. 1 user user   5011 Mar 16 08:20 mkdocs.yml
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-rw-r--r--. 1 user user    354 Mar 16 08:20 .pylintrc
-rw-r--r--. 1 user user     31 Mar 16 08:20 pyproject.toml
-rw-r--r--. 1 user user  22255 Mar 16 08:20 README.md
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drwxr-xr-x. 3 user user     60 Mar 16 08:20 src
drwxr-xr-x. 3 user user     60 Mar 16 08:20 test

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╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Calling tool: 'bash' with arguments: {'command': ['ls', '-la', 'txtai/src/']}                                   │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Observations: total 0
drwxr-xr-x. 3 user user  60 Mar 16 08:20 .
drwxr-xr-x. 9 user user 460 Mar 16 08:20 ..
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Observations: """
AudioStream module
"""

from queue import Queue
from threading import Thread

# Conditional import
try:
 import sounddevice as sd

 from .signal import Signal, SCIPY

 AUDIOSTREAM = SCIPY
except (ImportError, OSError):
 AUDIOSTREAM = False

from ..base import Pipeline

class AudioStream(Pipeline):
 """
 Threaded pipeline that streams audio segments to an output audio device. This pipeline is designed
 to run on local machines given that it requires access to write to an output device.
 """

 # End of stream message
 COMPLETE = (1, None)

 def __init__(self, rate=None):
 """
 Creates an AudioStream pipeline.

 Args:
 rate: optional target sample rate, otherwise uses input target rate with each audio segment
 """

 if not AUDIOSTREAM:
 raise ImportError(
 (
 'AudioStream pipeline is not available - install "pipeline" extra to enable. '
 "Also check that the portaudio system library is available."
 )
 )

 # Target sample rate
 self.rate = rate

 self.queue = Queue()
 self.thread = Thread(target=self.play)
 self.thread.start()

 def __call__(self, segment):
 """
 Queues audio segments for the audio player.

 Args:
 segment: (audio, sample rate)|list

 Returns:
 segment
 """

 # Convert single element to list
 segments = |segment] if isinstance(segment, tuple) else segment

 for x in segments:
 self.queue.put(x)

 # Return single element if single element passed in
 return segments|0] if isinstance(segment, tuple) else segments

 def wait(self):
 """
 Waits for all input audio segments to be played.
 """

 self.thread.join()

 def play(self):
 """
 Reads audio segments from queue. This method runs in a separate non-blocking thread.
 """

 audio, rate = self.queue.get()
 while not isinstance(audio, int) or (audio, rate) != AudioStream.COMPLETE:
 # Resample to target sample rate, if necessary
 audio, rate = (Signal.resample(audio, rate, self.rate), self.rate) if self.rate else (audio, rate)

 # Play audio segment
 sd.play(audio, rate, blocking=True)

 # Get next segment
 audio, rate = self.queue.get()

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Observations: """
Signal module
"""

import numpy as np

# Conditional import
try:
 from scipy import signal
 from scipy.fft import rfft, rfftfreq

 SCIPY = True
except ImportError:
 SCIPY = False

class Signal:
 """
 Utility methods for audio signal processing.
 """

 @staticmethod
 def mono(audio):
 """
 Convert stereo to mono audio.

 Args:
 audio: audio data

 Returns:
 audio data with a single channel
 """

 return audio.mean(axis=1) if len(audio.shape) > 1 else audio

 @staticmethod
 def resample(audio, rate, target):
 """
 Resample audio if the sample rate doesn't match the target sample rate.

 Args:
 audio: audio data
 rate: current sample rate
 target: target sample rate

 Returns:
 audio resampled if necessary or original audio
 """

 if rate != target:
 # Transpose audio
 audio = audio.T

 # Resample audio and tranpose back
 samples = round(len(audio) * float(target) / rate)
 audio = signal.resample(audio, samples).T

 return audio

 @staticmethod
 def float32(audio):
 """
 Converts an input NumPy array with 16-bit ints to 32-bit floats.

 Args:
 audio: input audio array as 16-bit ints

 Returns:
 audio array as 32-bit floats
 """

 i = np.iinfo(audio.dtype)
 abs_max = 2 ** (i.bits - 1)
 offset = i.min + abs_max
 return (audio.astype(np.float32) - offset) / abs_max

 @staticmethod
 def int16(audio):
 """
 Converts an input NumPy array with 32-bit floats to 16-bit ints.

 Args:
 audio: input audio array as 32-bit floats

 Returns:
 audio array as 16-bit ints
 """

 i = np.iinfo(np.int16)
 absmax = 2 ** (i.bits - 1)
 offset = i.min + absmax
 return (audio * absmax + offset).clip(i.min, i.max).astype(np.int16)

 @staticmethod
 def mix(audio1, audio2, scale1=1, scale2=1):
 """
 Mixes audio1 and audio 2 into a single output audio segment.

 Args:
 audio1: audio segment 1
 audio2: audio segment 2
 scale1: scale factor for audio segment 1
 scale2: scale factor for audio segment 2
 """

 # Reshape audio, as necessary
 audio1 = audio1.reshape(1, -1) if len(audio1.shape) <= 1 else audio1
 audio2 = audio2.reshape(1, -1) if len(audio2.shape) <= 1 else audio2

 # Scale audio
 audio1 = audio1 * scale1
 audio2 = audio2 * scale2

 # Make audio files the same length
 large, small = (audio1, audio2) if audio1.shape|1] > audio2.shape|1] else (audio2, audio1)
 small = np.tile(small, (large.shape|1] // small.shape|1]) + 1).take(axis=1, indices=range(0, large.shape|1]))

 # Mix audio together
 return small + large

 @staticmethod
 def energy(audio, rate):
 """
 Calculates the signal energy for the input audio. Energy is defined as:

 Energy = 2 * Signal Amplitude

 Args:
 audio: audio data
 rate: sample rate

 Returns:
 {frequency: energy at that frequency}
 """

 # Calculate signal frequency
 frequency = rfftfreq(len(audio), 1.0 / rate)
 frequency = frequency|1:]

 # Calculate signal energy using amplitude
 energy = np.abs(rfft(audio))
 energy = energy|1:]
 energy = energy**2

 # Get energy for each frequency
 energyfreq = {}
 for x, freq in enumerate(frequency):
 if abs(freq) not in energyfreq:
 energyfreq|abs(freq)] = energy|x] * 2

 return energyfreq

 @staticmethod
 def trim(audio, rate, threshold=1, leading=True, trailing=True):
 """
 Removes leading and trailing silence from audio data.

 Args:
 audio: audio data
 rate: sample rate
 threshold: energy below this level will be considered silence, defaults to 1.0
 leading: trim leading silence, defaults to True
 trailing: trim trailing silence, defauls to True

 Returns:
 audio with silence removed
 """

 # Process in 20ms chunks
 n, offset = int(rate * (20 / 1000.0) * 2), 0

 chunks = |]
 while offset + n <= len(audio):
 # Calculate energy for chunk and detection result
 chunk = audio|offset : offset + n]
 energyfreq = Signal.energy(chunk, rate)
 chunks.append((chunk, sum(energyfreq.values()) >= threshold))

 offset += n

 # Find first and last active chunks
 start = next((i for i, (_, active) in enumerate(chunks) if active), 0) if leading else 0
 end = (len(chunks) - next((i for i, (_, active) in enumerate(chunks|::-1]) if active), 0)) if trailing else 
len(chunks)

 # Concatenate active audio
 return np.concatenate(|chunk for chunk, _ in chunks|start:end]])

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│ with txtai audio stream\n\nimport numpy as np\nfrom txtai.pipeline.audio.audiostream import AudioStream\n\n#    │
│ Note frequencies (C4 = 261.63 Hz)\nNOTE_FREQUENCIES = {\n    \'C4\': 261.63,\n    \'D4\': 293.66,\n    \'E4\':  │
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│ (\'C4\', 0.5), (\'C4\', 0.5), (\'G4\', 0.5), (\'G4\', 0.5),\n    (\'A4\', 0.5), (\'A4\', 0.5), (\'G4\', 1.0),\n │
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│ 1.0)\n]\n\ndef generate_sine_wave(frequency, duration, sample_rate=44100):\n    """\n    Generate a sine wave   │
│ for a given frequency and duration\n    """\n    t = np.linspace(0, duration, int(sample_rate * duration),      │
│ False)\n    wave = np.sin(2 * np.pi * frequency * t)\n    return wave\n\n\ndef play_melody():\n    """\n        │
│ Play the Twinkle Twinkle Little Star melody\n    """\n    # Create audio stream\n    audio_stream =             │
│ AudioStream()\n    \n    sample_rate = 44100\n    \n    # Generate and play each note\n    for note, duration   │
│ in MELODY:\n        frequency = NOTE_FREQUENCIES[note]\n        wave = generate_sine_wave(frequency, duration,  │
│ sample_rate)\n        \n        # Convert to 16-bit integers for audio stream\n        wave_int16 =             │
│ np.int16(wave * 32767)\n        \n        # Play the note\n        audio_stream((wave_int16, sample_rate))\n    │
│ \n        # Add a small pause between notes\n        # (This is handled by the audio stream blocking)\n    \n   │
│ # Wait for all audio to finish playing\n    audio_stream.wait()\n    print("Melody finished!")\n\nif __name__   │
│ == "__main__":\n    play_melody()'}                                                                             │
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│ Little Star with txtai audio stream - Robust version\n\nimport numpy as np\nimport time\nfrom                   │
│ txtai.pipeline.audio.audiostream import AudioStream\n\n# Note frequencies (C4 = 261.63 Hz)\nNOTE_FREQUENCIES =  │
│ {\n    \'C4\': 261.63,\n    \'D4\': 293.66,\n    \'E4\': 329.63,\n    \'F4\': 349.23,\n    \'G4\': 392.00,\n    │
│ \'A4\': 440.00,\n    \'B4\': 493.88,\n    \'C5\': 523.25,\n}\n\n# Twinkle Twinkle Little Star melody\n# Each    │
│ tuple is (note, duration in seconds)\nMELODY = [\n    (\'C4\', 0.5), (\'C4\', 0.5), (\'G4\', 0.5), (\'G4\',     │
│ 0.5),\n    (\'A4\', 0.5), (\'A4\', 0.5), (\'G4\', 1.0),\n    (\'F4\', 0.5), (\'F4\', 0.5), (\'E4\', 0.5),       │
│ (\'E4\', 0.5),\n    (\'D4\', 0.5), (\'D4\', 0.5), (\'C4\', 1.0)\n]\n\ndef generate_sine_wave(frequency,         │
│ duration, sample_rate=44100):\n    """\n    Generate a sine wave for a given frequency and duration\n    """\n  │
│ t = np.linspace(0, duration, int(sample_rate * duration), False)\n    wave = np.sin(2 * np.pi * frequency *     │
│ t)\n    return wave\n\n\ndef play_melody():\n    """\n    Play the Twinkle Twinkle Little Star melody\n         │
│ """\n    try:\n        # Create audio stream\n        audio_stream = AudioStream()\n        print("Audio stream │
│ created successfully")\n        \n        sample_rate = 44100\n        \n        # Generate and play each       │
│ note\n        for i, (note, duration) in enumerate(MELODY):\n            print(f"Playing note {i+1}: {note} for │
│ {duration} seconds")\n            frequency = NOTE_FREQUENCIES[note]\n            wave =                        │
│ generate_sine_wave(frequency, duration, sample_rate)\n            \n            # Convert to 16-bit integers    │
│ for audio stream\n            wave_int16 = np.int16(wave * 32767)\n            \n            # Play the note\n  │
│ audio_stream((wave_int16, sample_rate))\n            \n            # Add a small pause between notes\n          │
│ time.sleep(duration)\n            \n        # Wait for all audio to finish playing\n                            │
│ audio_stream.wait()\n        print("Melody finished!")\n        \n    except Exception as e:\n                  │
│ print(f"Error playing melody: {e}")\n\nif __name__ == "__main__":\n    play_melody()'}                          │
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│ wave\nsample_rate = 44100\nfrequency = 440  # A note\nduration = 1.0  # 1 second\n\n# Generate time array\nt =  │
│ np.linspace(0, duration, int(sample_rate * duration), False)\n\n# Generate sine wave\nwave = np.sin(2 * np.pi * │
│ frequency * t)\n\n# Convert to 16-bit integers\nwave_int16 = np.int16(wave * 32767)\n\nprint(f'Generated wave   │
│ with {len(wave_int16)} samples')\n\n# Try to play it\nprint('Playing test tone...')\ntry:\n                     │
│ sd.play(wave_int16, sample_rate)\n    sd.wait()  # Wait until playback is finished\n    print('Test tone played │
│ successfully')\nexcept Exception as e:\n    print(f'Error playing tone: {e}')"}                                 │
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│ Calling tool: 'write' with arguments: {'path': 'twinkle_twinkle_final.py', 'content': '# Twinkle Twinkle Little │
│ Star with txtai audio stream\n# This demonstrates the complete implementation\n\nimport numpy as np\nfrom       │
│ txtai.pipeline.audio.audiostream import AudioStream\n\n# Note frequencies (C4 = 261.63 Hz)\nNOTE_FREQUENCIES =  │
│ {\n    \'C4\': 261.63,\n    \'D4\': 293.66,\n    \'E4\': 329.63,\n    \'F4\': 349.23,\n    \'G4\': 392.00,\n    │
│ \'A4\': 440.00,\n    \'B4\': 493.88,\n    \'C5\': 523.25,\n}\n\n# Twinkle Twinkle Little Star melody\n# Each    │
│ tuple is (note, duration in seconds)\nMELODY = [\n    (\'C4\', 0.5), (\'C4\', 0.5), (\'G4\', 0.5), (\'G4\',     │
│ 0.5),\n    (\'A4\', 0.5), (\'A4\', 0.5), (\'G4\', 1.0),\n    (\'F4\', 0.5), (\'F4\', 0.5), (\'E4\', 0.5),       │
│ (\'E4\', 0.5),\n    (\'D4\', 0.5), (\'D4\', 0.5), (\'C4\', 1.0)\n]\n\ndef generate_sine_wave(frequency,         │
│ duration, sample_rate=44100):\n    """\n    Generate a sine wave for a given frequency and duration\n    """\n  │
│ t = np.linspace(0, duration, int(sample_rate * duration), False)\n    wave = np.sin(2 * np.pi * frequency *     │
│ t)\n    return wave\n\n\ndef play_melody():\n    """\n    Play the Twinkle Twinkle Little Star melody\n         │
│ """\n    print("Creating audio stream...")\n    \n    # Create audio stream\n    try:\n        audio_stream =   │
│ AudioStream()\n        print("Audio stream created successfully")\n    except ImportError as e:\n               │
│ print(f"Audio stream creation failed: {e}")\n        return\n    \n    sample_rate = 44100\n    \n              │
│ print("Generating and playing melody...")\n    # Generate and play each note\n    for i, (note, duration) in    │
│ enumerate(MELODY):\n        print(f"Playing note {i+1}: {note} for {duration} seconds")\n        frequency =    │
│ NOTE_FREQUENCIES[note]\n        wave = generate_sine_wave(frequency, duration, sample_rate)\n        \n         │
│ # Convert to 16-bit integers for audio stream\n        wave_int16 = np.int16(wave * 32767)\n        \n        # │
│ Play the note\n        try:\n            audio_stream((wave_int16, sample_rate))\n        except Exception as   │
│ e:\n            print(f"Error playing note {note}: {e}")\n            continue\n        \n    # Wait for all    │
│ audio to finish playing\n    try:\n        audio_stream.wait()\n        print("Melody finished!")\n    except   │
│ Exception as e:\n        print(f"Error waiting for audio completion: {e}")\n\nif __name__ == "__main__":\n      │
│ play_melody()'}                                                                                                 │
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'I\'ve successfully created a solution that demonstrates how to play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" using simple notes translated to frequencies and the txtai audio stream pipeline.\n\n## Solution Overview\n\nThe implementation consists of:\n\n1. **Frequency-based note generation**: Converting musical notes to their corresponding frequencies\n2. **Audio stream pipeline**: Using txtai\'s `AudioStream` class to handle audio playback\n3. **Melody composition**: Translating the Twinkle Twinkle Little Star melody into playable notes\n\n## Key Components\n\n### Note Frequencies\nThe implementation uses standard musical note frequencies:\n- C4 = 261.63 Hz\n- D4 = 293.66 Hz\n- E4 = 329.63 Hz\n- F4 = 349.23 Hz\n- G4 = 392.00 Hz\n- A4 = 440.00 Hz\n- B4 = 493.88 Hz\n- C5 = 523.25 Hz\n\n### Melody Structure\nThe Twinkle Twinkle Little Star melody is represented as a sequence of note-duration pairs:\n

\nC4(0.5s), C4(0.5s), G4(0.5s), G4(0.5s), A4(0.5s), A4(0.5s), G4(1.0s),\nF4(0.5s), F4(0.5s), E4(0.5s), E4(0.5s), D4(0.5s), D4(0.5s), C4(1.0s)\n

\n\n## Implementation Details\n\nThe solution creates a sine wave for each note using the formula:\n

\nwave = sin(2π × frequency × time)\n

\n\nThen converts the wave to 16-bit integers for compatibility with the audio stream pipeline.\n\n## How to Run\n\n1. Ensure you have the required dependencies installed:\n

bash\n pip install sounddevice scipy numpy\n

\n\n2. Run the script:\n

bash\n python twinkle_twinkle_final.py\n

\n\nThe script will:\n- Create an audio stream\n- Generate and play each note in the melody\n- Wait for all notes to finish playing\n- Print status messages during execution\n\n## Technical Approach\n\nThe implementation leverages txtai\'s AudioStream pipeline which:\n- Uses threading to handle audio playback\n- Supports sample rate conversion\n- Provides blocking playback for sequential note playing\n- Handles audio device access for local playback\n\nThis approach demonstrates the complete integration of musical note generation with txtai\'s audio streaming capabilities, following the structure and patterns found in the txtai/src directory.\n\nNote: While the code is properly structured and should work in environments with proper audio support, the execution environment may not have audio output capabilities, which is why no audible sound was produced during testing.'

Depending on the permissions given to the bash tool, some steps will be no-op. For example, the default settings don't allow running python or curl. So they're just skipped over.

If this worked as expected, you should have a Python file with code similar to what's below

# Twinkle Twinkle Little Star with txtai audio stream

import numpy as np
from txtai.pipeline.audio.audiostream import AudioStream

# Note frequencies (C4 = 261.63 Hz)
NOTE_FREQUENCIES = {
    'C4': 261.63,
    'D4': 293.66,
    'E4': 329.63,
    'F4': 349.23,
    'G4': 392.00,
    'A4': 440.00,
    'B4': 493.88,
    'C5': 523.25,
}

# Twinkle Twinkle Little Star melody
# Each tuple is (note, duration in seconds)
MELODY = [
    ('C4', 0.5), ('C4', 0.5), ('G4', 0.5), ('G4', 0.5),
    ('A4', 0.5), ('A4', 0.5), ('G4', 1.0),
    ('F4', 0.5), ('F4', 0.5), ('E4', 0.5), ('E4', 0.5),
    ('D4', 0.5), ('D4', 0.5), ('C4', 1.0)
]

def generate_sine_wave(frequency, duration, sample_rate=44100):
    """
    Generate a sine wave for a given frequency and duration
    """
    t = np.linspace(0, duration, int(sample_rate * duration), False)
    wave = np.sin(2 * np.pi * frequency * t)
    return wave


def play_melody():
    """
    Play the Twinkle Twinkle Little Star melody
    """
    # Create audio stream
    audio_stream = AudioStream()

    sample_rate = 44100

    # Generate and play each note
    for note, duration in MELODY:
        frequency = NOTE_FREQUENCIES[note]
        wave = generate_sine_wave(frequency, duration, sample_rate)

        # Convert to 16-bit integers for audio stream
        wave_int16 = np.int16(wave * 32767)

        # Play the note
        audio_stream((wave_int16, sample_rate))

        # Add a small pause between notes
        # (This is handled by the audio stream blocking)

    # Wait for all audio to finish playing
    audio_stream.wait()
    print("Melody finished!")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    play_melody()

Add a new TxtAI pipeline

Now let's see if this agent can figure out how to add a new TxtAI pipeline.

agent((
    "I want to update txtai to add a new pipeline. This pipeline should replace the input text with a new pattern. "
    "Source code is in txtai/src directory. Don't worry about testing or running the pipeline."
))

╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────── New run ────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│                                                                                                                 │
│ I want to update txtai to add a new pipeline. This pipeline should replace the input text with a new pattern.   │
│ Source code is in txtai/src directory. Don't worry about testing or running the pipeline.                       │
│                                                                                                                 │
╰─ PipelineModel - unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-Q3_K_M.gguf ────────────╯

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Observations: txtai/src/python/txtai/workflow/task/workflow.py
txtai/src/python/txtai/workflow/task/url.py
txtai/src/python/txtai/workflow/task/template.py
txtai/src/python/txtai/workflow/task/stream.py
txtai/src/python/txtai/workflow/task/storage.py
txtai/src/python/txtai/workflow/task/service.py
txtai/src/python/txtai/workflow/task/retrieve.py
txtai/src/python/txtai/workflow/task/image.py
txtai/src/python/txtai/workflow/task/file.py
txtai/src/python/txtai/workflow/task/factory.py
txtai/src/python/txtai/workflow/task/export.py
txtai/src/python/txtai/workflow/task/console.py
txtai/src/python/txtai/workflow/task/base.py
txtai/src/python/txtai/workflow/task/__init__.py
txtai/src/python/txtai/workflow/factory.py
txtai/src/python/txtai/workflow/execute.py
txtai/src/python/txtai/workflow/base.py
txtai/src/python/txtai/workflow/__init__.py
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Observations: """
Text imports
"""

from .crossencoder import CrossEncoder
from .entity import Entity
from .labels import Labels
from .lateencoder import LateEncoder
from .questions import Questions
from .reranker import Reranker
from .similarity import Similarity
from .summary import Summary
from .translation import Translation

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Observations: """
Pipeline imports
"""

from .audio import *
from .base import Pipeline
from .data import *
from .factory import PipelineFactory
from .hfmodel import HFModel
from .hfpipeline import HFPipeline
from .image import *
from .llm import *
from .llm import RAG as Extractor
from .nop import Nop
from .text import *
from .tensors import Tensors
from .train import *

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Observations: """
Pipeline module
"""

class Pipeline:
 """
 Base class for all Pipelines. The only interface requirement is to define a __call___ method.
 """

 def batch(self, data, size):
 """
 Splits data into separate batch sizes specified by size.

 Args:
 data: data elements
 size: batch size

 Returns:
 list of evenly sized batches with the last batch having the remaining elements
 """

 return |data|x : x + size] for x in range(0, len(data), size)]

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Observations: """
Pipeline factory module
"""

import inspect
import sys
import types

from ..util import Resolver

from .base import Pipeline

class PipelineFactory:
 """
 Pipeline factory. Creates new Pipeline instances.
 """

 @staticmethod
 def get(pipeline):
 """
 Gets a new instance of pipeline class.

 Args:
 pclass: Pipeline instance class

 Returns:
 Pipeline class
 """

 # Local pipeline if no package
 if "." not in pipeline:
 return PipelineFactory.list()|pipeline]

 # Attempt to load custom pipeline
 return Resolver()(pipeline)

 @staticmethod
 def create(config, pipeline):
 """
 Creates a new Pipeline instance.

 Args:
 config: Pipeline configuration
 pipeline: Pipeline instance class

 Returns:
 Pipeline
 """

 # Resolve pipeline
 pipeline = PipelineFactory.get(pipeline)

 # Return functions directly, otherwise create pipeline instance
 return pipeline if isinstance(pipeline, types.FunctionType) else pipeline(**config)

 @staticmethod
 def list():
 """
 Lists callable pipelines.

 Returns:
 {short name: pipeline class}
 """

 pipelines = {}

 # Get handle to pipeline module
 pipeline = sys.modules|".".join(__name__.split(".")|:-1])]

 # Get list of callable pipelines
 for x in inspect.getmembers(pipeline, inspect.isclass):
 if issubclass(x|1], Pipeline) and |y for y, _ in inspect.getmembers(x|1], inspect.isfunction) if y == "__call__"]:
 # short name: pipeline class
 pipelines|x|0].lower()] = x|1]

 return pipelines

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Observations: """
Summary module
"""

import re

from ..hfpipeline import HFPipeline

class Summary(HFPipeline):
 """
 Summarizes text.
 """

 def __init__(self, path=None, quantize=False, gpu=True, model=None, **kwargs):
 super().__init__("summarization", path, quantize, gpu, model, **kwargs)

 def __call__(self, text, minlength=None, maxlength=None, workers=0):
 """
 Runs a summarization model against a block of text.

 This method supports text as a string or a list. If the input is a string, the return
 type is text. If text is a list, a list of text is returned with a row per block of text.

 Args:
 text: text|list
 minlength: minimum length for summary
 maxlength: maximum length for summary
 workers: number of concurrent workers to use for processing data, defaults to None

 Returns:
 summary text
 """

 # Validate text length greater than max length
 check = maxlength if maxlength else self.maxlength()

 # Skip text shorter than max length
 texts = text if isinstance(text, list) else |text]
 params = |(x, text if len(text) >= check else None) for x, text in enumerate(texts)]

 # Build keyword arguments
 kwargs = self.args(minlength, maxlength)

 inputs = |text for _, text in params if text]
 if inputs:
 # Run summarization pipeline
 results = self.pipeline(inputs, num_workers=workers, **kwargs)

 # Pull out summary text
 results = iter(|self.clean(x|"summary_text"]) for x in results])
 results = |next(results) if text else texts|x] for x, text in params]
 else:
 # Return original
 results = texts

 return results|0] if isinstance(text, str) else results

 def clean(self, text):
 """
 Applies a series of rules to clean extracted text.

 Args:
 text: input text

 Returns:
 clean text
 """

 text = re.sub(r"\s*\.\s*", ". ", text)
 text = text.strip()

 return text

 def args(self, minlength, maxlength):
 """
 Builds keyword arguments.

 Args:
 minlength: minimum length for summary
 maxlength: maximum length for summary

 Returns:
 keyword arguments
 """

 kwargs = {"truncation": True}
 if minlength:
 kwargs|"min_length"] = minlength
 if maxlength:
 kwargs|"max_length"] = maxlength
 kwargs|"max_new_tokens"] = None

 # Default minlength if not provided or it's bigger than maxlength
 if "min_length" not in kwargs or kwargs|"min_length"] > kwargs|"max_length"]:
 kwargs|"min_length"] = kwargs|"max_length"]

 return kwargs

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│ 'txtai/src/python/txtai/pipeline/text/']}                                                                       │
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").replace("\r\n", " ") for x in texts]

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│ Replaces text with a new pattern.\n    """\n\n    def __init__(self, pattern=None, replacement="", flags=0):\n  │
│ """\n        Initializes the Pattern pipeline.\n\n        Args:\n            pattern: Regular expression        │
│ pattern to match\n            replacement: Replacement text\n            flags: Regular expression flags\n      │
│ """\n        self.pattern = pattern\n        self.replacement = replacement\n        self.flags = flags\n\n     │
│ def __call__(self, text):\n        """\n        Replaces text with a new pattern.\n\n        Args:\n            │
│ text: input text to process\n\n        Returns:\n            text with pattern replaced\n        """\n          │
│ if self.pattern is None:\n            return text\n        \n        return re.sub(self.pattern,                │
│ self.replacement, text, flags=self.flags)\n\n    def batch(self, texts, size=100):\n        """\n               │
│ Processes a batch of texts.\n\n        Args:\n            texts: list of texts to process\n            size:    │
│ batch size\n\n        Returns:\n            list of processed texts\n        """\n        return [self(text)    │
│ for text in texts]'}                                                                                            │
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│ 'from .crossencoder import CrossEncoder\nfrom .entity import Entity\nfrom .labels import Labels\nfrom           │
│ .lateencoder import LateEncoder\nfrom .questions import Questions\nfrom .reranker import Reranker\nfrom         │
│ .similarity import Similarity\nfrom .summary import Summary\nfrom .translation import Translation', 'replace':  │
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│ .lateencoder import LateEncoder\nfrom .questions import Questions\nfrom .reranker import Reranker\nfrom         │
│ .similarity import Similarity\nfrom .summary import Summary\nfrom .translation import Translation\nfrom         │
│ .pattern import Pattern'}                                                                                       │
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Observations: --- txtai/src/python/txtai/pipeline/text/__init__.py
+++ txtai/src/python/txtai/pipeline/text/__init__.py
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@
 from .similarity import Similarity
 from .summary import Summary
 from .translation import Translation
+from .pattern import Pattern

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│ a pattern replacement pipeline\npipeline = Pattern(r"\\d+", "[NUMBER]")\n\n# Process text\nresult = pipeline("I │
│ have 5 cats and 3 dogs")\nprint(result)  # Should output: I have [NUMBER] cats and [NUMBER] dogs\n\n# Process   │
│ batch\nbatch_result = pipeline.batch(["I have 5 cats", "She has 2 dogs"])\nprint(batch_result)  # Should        │
│ output: [\'I have [NUMBER] cats\', \'She has [NUMBER] dogs\']'}                                                 │
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│ Calling tool: 'final_answer' with arguments: {'answer': 'I have successfully added a new Pattern pipeline to    │
│ txtai that replaces input text with a new pattern. Here\'s what I did:\n\n1. Created a new file                 │
│ `txtai/src/python/txtai/pipeline/text/pattern.py` with a Pattern class that inherits from Pipeline base         │
│ class\n2. Implemented the `__call__` method to use Python\'s `re.sub()` for pattern replacement\n3. Added a     │
│ `batch` method to process multiple texts at once\n4. Updated `txtai/src/python/txtai/pipeline/text/__init__.py` │
│ to export the new Pattern class\n\nThe new pipeline can be used like this:\n

```python\nfrom txtai.pipeline.text │
│ import Pattern\n\n# Create a pattern replacement pipeline\npipeline = Pattern(r"\\d+", "[NUMBER]")\n\n# Process │
│ text\nresult = pipeline("I have 5 cats and 3 dogs")\n# Returns: "I have [NUMBER] cats and [NUMBER] dogs"\n\n#   │
│ Process batch\nbatch_result = pipeline.batch(["I have 5 cats", "She has 2 dogs"])\n# Returns: ["I have [NUMBER] │
│ cats", "She has [NUMBER] dogs"]\n```

'}                                                                          │
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Observations: I have successfully added a new Pattern pipeline to txtai that replaces input text with a new 
pattern. Here's what I did:

1. Created a new file `txtai/src/python/txtai/pipeline/text/pattern.py` with a Pattern class that inherits from 
Pipeline base class
2. Implemented the `__call__` method to use Python's `re.sub()` for pattern replacement
3. Added a `batch` method to process multiple texts at once
4. Updated `txtai/src/python/txtai/pipeline/text/__init__.py` to export the new Pattern class

The new pipeline can be used like this:


```python
from txtai.pipeline.text import Pattern

# Create a pattern replacement pipeline
pipeline = Pattern(r"\d+", "|NUMBER]")

# Process text
result = pipeline("I have 5 cats and 3 dogs")
# Returns: "I have |NUMBER] cats and |NUMBER] dogs"

# Process batch
batch_result = pipeline.batch(|"I have 5 cats", "She has 2 dogs"])
# Returns: |"I have |NUMBER] cats", "She has |NUMBER] dogs"]
```

Final answer: I have successfully added a new Pattern pipeline to txtai that replaces input text with a new 
pattern. Here's what I did:

1. Created a new file `txtai/src/python/txtai/pipeline/text/pattern.py` with a Pattern class that inherits from 
Pipeline base class
2. Implemented the `__call__` method to use Python's `re.sub()` for pattern replacement
3. Added a `batch` method to process multiple texts at once
4. Updated `txtai/src/python/txtai/pipeline/text/__init__.py` to export the new Pattern class

The new pipeline can be used like this:


```python
from txtai.pipeline.text import Pattern

# Create a pattern replacement pipeline
pipeline = Pattern(r"\d+", "[NUMBER]")

# Process text
result = pipeline("I have 5 cats and 3 dogs")
# Returns: "I have [NUMBER] cats and [NUMBER] dogs"

# Process batch
batch_result = pipeline.batch(["I have 5 cats", "She has 2 dogs"])
# Returns: ["I have [NUMBER] cats", "She has [NUMBER] dogs"]
```

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    'I have successfully added a new Pattern pipeline to txtai that replaces input text with a new pattern. Here\'s what I did:\n\n1. Created a new file `txtai/src/python/txtai/pipeline/text/pattern.py` with a Pattern class that inherits from Pipeline base class\n2. Implemented the `__call__` method to use Python\'s `re.sub()` for pattern replacement\n3. Added a `batch` method to process multiple texts at once\n4. Updated `txtai/src/python/txtai/pipeline/text/__init__.py` to export the new Pattern class\n\nThe new pipeline can be used like this:\n```

python\nfrom txtai.pipeline.text import Pattern\n\n# Create a pattern replacement pipeline\npipeline = Pattern(r"\\d+", "[NUMBER]")\n\n# Process text\nresult = pipeline("I have 5 cats and 3 dogs")\n# Returns: "I have [NUMBER] cats and [NUMBER] dogs"\n\n# Process batch\nbatch_result = pipeline.batch(["I have 5 cats", "She has 2 dogs"])\n# Returns: ["I have [NUMBER] cats", "She has [NUMBER] dogs"]\n

```'

Pretty solid! Notice how the agent was able to figure out how TxtAI pipelines work, add a new pipeline and make the appropriate edits.

A fully working TxtAI pipeline ready to submit as a PR.

Wrapping up

This example demonstrated the new agent tools capability coming to TxtAI. Keep in mind these tools can be combined with the existing toolset that enabled reading content from Embeddings databases. These embeddings databases often store business-specific domain knowledge and content.

A compelling open and local-focused AI development platform is within reach!

TxtAI got skills

David Mezzetti — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:41:41 +0000

This example will demonstrate how to use txtai agents with skill.md files.

We'll setup a skill.md file with details on how to use TxtAI and run a series of agent requests.

Let's get started!

Install dependencies

Install txtai and all dependencies.

%%capture
!pip install txtai[agent]

Define a `skill.md` file

Next, we'll create our skill.md file. This file has examples on how to build embeddings databases, how to use re-ranker pipelines, RAG pipelines and more.

The upside of a skill.md file vs an agents.md file is that it can be dynamically added to the agent context. The description helps the agent decide if the skill is necessary given the request. Think of it like a dynamic knowledge base that's easy to modify.

---
name: txtai
description: "Examples on how to build txtai embeddings databases, txtai RAG pipelines, txtai reranker pipelines and txtai translation pipelines"
---

# Build an embeddings database

from txtai import Embeddings

# Create embeddings model, backed by sentence-transformers & transformers
embeddings = Embeddings(path="sentence-transformers/nli-mpnet-base-v2")

data = [
  "US tops 5 million confirmed virus cases",
  "Canada's last fully intact ice shelf has suddenly collapsed, " +
  "forming a Manhattan-sized iceberg",
  "Beijing mobilises invasion craft along coast as Taiwan tensions escalate",
  "The National Park Service warns against sacrificing slower friends " +
  "in a bear attack",
  "Maine man wins $1M from $25 lottery ticket",
  "Make huge profits without work, earn up to $100,000 a day"
]

# Index the list of text
embeddings.index(data)

# Search an embeddings database

embeddings.search("Search query")

# Build a RAG pipeline

from txtai import Embeddings, RAG

# Input data
data = [
  "US tops 5 million confirmed virus cases",
  "Canada's last fully intact ice shelf has suddenly collapsed, " +
  "forming a Manhattan-sized iceberg",
  "Beijing mobilises invasion craft along coast as Taiwan tensions escalate",
  "The National Park Service warns against sacrificing slower friends " +
  "in a bear attack",
  "Maine man wins $1M from $25 lottery ticket",
  "Make huge profits without work, earn up to $100,000 a day"
]

# Build embeddings index
embeddings = Embeddings(content=True)
embeddings.index(data)

# Create the RAG pipeline
rag = RAG(embeddings, "Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B", template="""
  Answer the following question using the provided context.

  Question:
  {question}

  Context:
  {context}
""")

# Run RAG pipeline
rag("What was won?")

# Translate text from English into French

from txtai.pipeline import Translation

# Create and run pipeline
translate = Translation()
translate("This is a test translation", "fr")

# Re-ranker pipeline

from txtai import Embeddings
from txtai.pipeline import Reranker, Similarity

# Embeddings instance
embeddings = Embeddings()
embeddings.load(provider="huggingface-hub", container="neuml/txtai-wikipedia")

# Similarity instance
similarity = Similarity(path="colbert-ir/colbertv2.0", lateencode=True)

# Reranking pipeline
reranker = Reranker(embeddings, similarity)
reranker("Tell me about AI")

Query for TxtAI questions

Now, let's try this out and see if the LLM is smart enough to use the defined skill vs. going out on the web.

Let's setup the scaffolding code to create and run an agent. We'll use a Qwen3 4B non-thinking LLM as the agent's model. We'll add the websearch and webview tools to the agent along with the skill.md file previously created.

Additionally, we'll add a sliding window of the last 2 responses as "agent memory". This will help create a rolling dialogue.

from txtai import Agent
from IPython.display import display, Markdown

def run(query, reset=False):
    answer = agent(query, maxlength=50000, reset=reset)
    display(Markdown(answer))

agent = Agent(
    model="Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507",
    tools=["websearch", "webview", "skill.md"],
    memory=2,
    verbosity_level=0
)

First, we'll ask how to build a TxtAI embeddings database.

run("Write a txtai embeddings program that indexes data")

To create a txtai embeddings program that indexes data, use the following Python code:

from txtai import Embeddings

# Create embeddings model using sentence-transformers
embeddings = Embeddings(path="sentence-transformers/nli-mpnet-base-v2")

# Sample data to index
data = [
  "US tops 5 million confirmed virus cases",
  "Canada's last fully intact ice shelf has suddenly collapsed, " +
  "forming a Manhattan-sized iceberg",
  "Beijing mobilises invasion craft along coast as Taiwan tensions escalate",
  "The National Park Service warns against sacrificing slower friends " +
  "in a bear attack",
  "Maine man wins $1M from $25 lottery ticket",
  "Make huge profits without work, earn up to $100,000 a day"
]

# Index the data
embeddings.index(data)

This program initializes an embeddings database using the sentence-transformers/nli-mpnet-base-v2 model and indexes a list of text data. The indexed data can later be searched or used in other applications like retrieval, RAG, or translation.

The Agent pulled the correct section from the skill.md file. Now, let's look for an example on how to use a re-ranker pipeline.

run("Write a txtai re-ranker pipeline")

from txtai import Embeddings
from txtai.pipeline import Reranker, Similarity

# Embeddings instance
embeddings = Embeddings()
embeddings.load(provider="huggingface-hub", container="neuml/txtai-wikipedia")

# Similarity instance
similarity = Similarity(path="colbert-ir/colbertv2.0", lateencode=True)

# Reranking pipeline
reranker = Reranker(embeddings, similarity)
reranker("Tell me about AI")

Great! This also works. But remember we have access to an LLM here. It doesn't have to blindly just pull the text. Let's ask it to modify the last example.

run("Update the similarity path to use another reranker model. Disable lateencode.")

from txtai import Embeddings
from txtai.pipeline import Reranker, Similarity

# Embeddings instance
embeddings = Embeddings()
embeddings.load(provider="huggingface-hub", container="neuml/txtai-wikipedia")

# Similarity instance with a different reranker model and lateencode disabled
similarity = Similarity(path="BAAI/bge-reranker-base", lateencode=False)

# Reranking pipeline
reranker = Reranker(embeddings, similarity)
reranker("Tell me about AI")

Notice it just edited the code with a different reranker model and even added a comment to note this change.

We can also clear the rolling dialogue and start fresh.

run("Write a txtai program that translate text from English to Spanish", reset=True)

from txtai.pipeline import Translation

# Create and run pipeline for English to Spanish translation
translate = Translation()
translated_text = translate("This is a test translation", "es")
print(translated_text)

Wrapping up

This example shows how to add a skill.md file to txtai agents. Go give it a try!

Agentic College Search

David Mezzetti — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:38:04 +0000

This example will demonstrate how to use txtai agents to identify list of strong engineering colleges with baseball programs 🎓⚙️⚾.

We'll setup a default agents.md file and then give an LLM access to the web.

Let's get started!

Install dependencies

Install txtai and all dependencies.

%%capture
!pip install txtai[agent]

Define an `agents.md` file

Next, we'll define an agents.md file. This file defines default behavior for our college search agent and is inserted into the system prompt of every agent run.

%%writefile agents.md
# College Researcher

You are a college research agent. Your job is to help find the best matching schools given a set of criteria.

## Academics

Work to match the request with a set of schools that match the academic requirements

## Athletics

Some requests may be interested in collegiate athletics. Make sure to balance that with other parts of the request.

Identify the Top 20 schools

Next, let's run a prompt to identify the best 20 colleges given a set of criteria.

First, we'll setup the scaffolding code to create and run an agent. We'll use a Qwen3 4B non-thinking LLM as the agent's model. We'll add the websearch and webview tools to the agent along with the agents.md file previously created.

Additionally, we'll add a sliding window of the last 5 responses as "agent memory". This will help create a rolling dialogue.

from txtai import Agent
from IPython.display import display, Markdown

def run(query, reset=False):
    answer = agent(query, maxlength=60000, reset=reset)
    display(Markdown(answer))

agent = Agent(model="Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507", tools=["websearch", "webview"], memory=5, instructions="agents.md", max_steps=50)

Now we can run the search. To come up with our list of colleges, a series of web searches were executed by the agent. It's like if you had the superpower 🚀 to kick off 10+ web searches with slight variations each time as you go. It's a rapid fire set of operations to collect information for the LLM for analysis.

Note: The output below has the verbosity_level set to 0 for brevity. If you run this again, you'll get the full details with each step.

run((
    "List 20 universities located in the Mid-Atlantic or Northeast that would be good candidates to consider "
    "with top 50 engineering programs and an active baseball team. "
    "Visit websites covering the top engineering schools in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. "
    "Add a rationale for each of the picks in a few words. "
))

╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────── New run ────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│                                                                                                                 │
│ List 20 universities located in the Mid-Atlantic or Northeast that would be good candidates to consider with    │
│ top 50 engineering programs and an active baseball team. Visit websites covering the top engineering schools in │
│ the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Add a rationale for each of the picks in a few words.                           │
│                                                                                                                 │
╰─ PipelineModel - Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Here are 20 universities in the Mid-Atlantic or Northeast with top 50 engineering programs and active baseball teams, along with a brief rationale for each:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Top-ranked engineering program in the Northeast with a strong research focus and active baseball team.
Princeton University – Renowned for engineering excellence and competitive baseball in the Ivy League.
Columbia University – Strong engineering programs and a consistently active baseball team.
University of Pennsylvania – Top-tier engineering and a well-established baseball program in the Ivy League.
Carnegie Mellon University – Leading in computer and engineering fields with a competitive baseball team.
Cornell University – Excellent engineering programs and a strong baseball presence.
Northeastern University – Strong engineering programs and active baseball team.
New York University – Top engineering programs with a competitive baseball team.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) – Strong engineering focus and active baseball in the Liberty League.
Rutgers University – Top engineering programs and a well-established baseball team.
Lehigh University – Strong engineering and active baseball in the Patriot League.
University of Connecticut – Top engineering programs and a competitive baseball team.
University of Massachusetts Amherst – Solid engineering programs and active baseball.
University of Massachusetts Lowell – Strong engineering and active baseball in the America East Conference.
Syracuse University – Top engineering programs and a competitive baseball team.
Boston University – Strong engineering and active baseball.
Dartmouth College – Excellent engineering programs and competitive baseball.
Brown University – Top engineering and active baseball.
Bucknell University – Solid engineering and active baseball.
University of Rochester – Strong engineering and competitive baseball.

These institutions combine top-tier engineering programs with active collegiate baseball teams, making them excellent candidates for students seeking both academic excellence and athletic engagement.

Interesting! Looks like quite an impressive list of colleges. This output is the product of taking the results of 10+ web searches and analyzing the results with an LLM. A very practical and realistic use of "Agentic AI". This is a great list of strong engineering schools with baseball programs 🎓⚙️⚾.

Let's narrow it down to the top 5 engineering schools.

run("Read the list below and pick the Top 5 engineering programs.")

╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────── New run ────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│                                                                                                                 │
│ Read the list below and pick the Top 5 engineering programs.                                                    │
│                                                                                                                 │
│ Use the following conversation history to help answer the question above.                                       │
│                                                                                                                 │
│ User: List 20 universities located in the Mid-Atlantic or Northeast that would be good candidates to consider   │
│ with top 50 engineering programs and an active baseball team. Visit websites covering the top engineering       │
│ schools in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Add a rationale for each of the picks in a few words.                │
│ Assistant: Here are 20 universities in the Mid-Atlantic or Northeast with top 50 engineering programs and       │
│ active baseball teams, along with a brief rationale for each:                                                   │
│                                                                                                                 │
│ 1. **Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)** – Top-ranked engineering program in the Northeast with a     │
│ strong research focus and active baseball team.                                                                 │
│ 2. **Princeton University** – Renowned for engineering excellence and competitive baseball in the Ivy League.   │
│ 3. **Columbia University** – Strong engineering programs and a consistently active baseball team.               │
│ 4. **University of Pennsylvania** – Top-tier engineering and a well-established baseball program in the Ivy     │
│ League.                                                                                                         │
│ 5. **Carnegie Mellon University** – Leading in computer and engineering fields with a competitive baseball      │
│ team.                                                                                                           │
│ 6. **Cornell University** – Excellent engineering programs and a strong baseball presence.                      │
│ 7. **Northeastern University** – Strong engineering programs and active baseball team.                          │
│ 8. **New York University** – Top engineering programs with a competitive baseball team.                         │
│ 9. **Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)** – Strong engineering focus and active baseball in the Liberty     │
│ League.                                                                                                         │
│ 10. **Rutgers University** – Top engineering programs and a well-established baseball team.                     │
│ 11. **Lehigh University** – Strong engineering and active baseball in the Patriot League.                       │
│ 12. **University of Connecticut** – Top engineering programs and a competitive baseball team.                   │
│ 13. **University of Massachusetts Amherst** – Solid engineering programs and active baseball.                   │
│ 14. **University of Massachusetts Lowell** – Strong engineering and active baseball in the America East         │
│ Conference.                                                                                                     │
│ 15. **Syracuse University** – Top engineering programs and a competitive baseball team.                         │
│ 16. **Boston University** – Strong engineering and active baseball.                                             │
│ 17. **Dartmouth College** – Excellent engineering programs and competitive baseball.                            │
│ 18. **Brown University** – Top engineering and active baseball.                                                 │
│ 19. **Bucknell University** – Solid engineering and active baseball.                                            │
│ 20. **University of Rochester** – Strong engineering and competitive baseball.                                  │
│                                                                                                                 │
│ These institutions combine top-tier engineering programs with active collegiate baseball teams, making them     │
│ excellent candidates for students seeking both academic excellence and athletic engagement.                     │
│                                                                                                                 │
│ If the history is irrelevant, forget it and use other tools to answer the question.                             │
│                                                                                                                 │
╰─ PipelineModel - Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

The top 5 engineering programs from the list of universities in the Mid-Atlantic or Northeast with active baseball teams are:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Top-ranked engineering program in the Northeast with a strong research focus and active baseball team.
Princeton University – Renowned for engineering excellence and competitive baseball in the Ivy League.
Carnegie Mellon University – Leading in computer and engineering fields with a competitive baseball team.
Cornell University – Excellent engineering programs and a strong baseball presence.
University of Pennsylvania – Top-tier engineering and a well-established baseball program in the Ivy League.

These schools stand out due to their exceptional engineering programs and active collegiate baseball teams, offering a balanced academic and athletic experience.

Wrapping up

This example showed how to run an Agentic Loop that identified the best set of colleges to research further. It's an agent with memory and can be used to build an ongoing dialogue with an agent. Give it a try!

OpenCode as a txtai LLM

David Mezzetti — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:45:05 +0000

OpenCode is an open source AI coding agent. It's rapidly growing in popularity as an open alternative to Claude Code.

OpenCode shows the power of permissive open source. It's rapidly undergoing mass adoption and as of January 2026 sits at 81K+ GitHub ⭐'s. OpenCode supports running as a local server via opencode serve.

This article will explore how TxtAI integrates this as a LLM pipeline.

Install dependencies

Install txtai and all dependencies.

%%capture
!pip install txtai[api,pipeline-llm]

# Install OpenCode if not already installed and run serve
!curl -fsSL https://opencode.ai/install | bash
!opencode serve &

Create a OpenCode LLM

Now that everything is installed, let's test it out!

from IPython.display import Markdown, display

from txtai import LLM

def generate(request):
    display(Markdown(llm(request)))

# Connect to OpenCode server and use default LLM provider
llm = LLM("opencode")

generate("Show a Python Hello World example")

print("Hello, World!")

OK, now let's try this for a more advanced use case.

generate("Show a simple and basic TxtAI RAG example")

from txtai import Embeddings, LLM

# Create embeddings model
embeddings = Embeddings(path="sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2")

# Create LLM
llm = LLM("huggingface/Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct")

# Sample documents
documents = [
    "Python is a programming language created by Guido van Rossum",
    "Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence",
    "Deep learning uses neural networks with multiple layers"
]

# Build the index
embeddings.index([(i, doc) for i, doc in enumerate(documents)])

# RAG function
def rag_query(question):
    # Search for relevant documents
    results = embeddings.search(question, 2)

    # Build context from retrieved documents
    context = " ".join([documents[result[0]] for result in results])

    # Generate response using LLM with context
    prompt = f"Context: {context}\n\nQuestion: {question}\n\nAnswer:"
    return llm(prompt)

# Example usage
question = "What is Python?"
answer = rag_query(question)
print(f"Question: {question}")
print(f"Answer: {answer}")

Interesting! It's not limited to Python though.

generate("Show a x86 assembly hello world")

section .data
    hello db 'Hello, World!', 10    ; String with newline
    hello_len equ $ - hello         ; Length of string

section .text
    global _start

_start:
    ; sys_write system call
    mov eax, 4                      ; sys_write
    mov ebx, 1                      ; stdout
    mov ecx, hello                  ; message
    mov edx, hello_len              ; message length
    int 0x80                        ; kernel interrupt

    ; sys_exit system call
    mov eax, 1                      ; sys_exit
    mov ebx, 0                      ; exit code 0
    int 0x80                        ; kernel interrupt

Compile and run:

nasm -f elf32 hello.asm -o hello.o
ld -m elf_i386 hello.o -o hello
./hello

generate("""
Fix the following error in the code below and explain what's wrong.

Error:
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith'

Code:
a = None
a.startswith("hello")
""")

a = None
if a is not None:
    a.startswith("hello")
else:
    print("a is None, cannot call startswith")

What's wrong: The variable a is None, which is a NoneType object. The startswith() method only exists for strings, not for NoneType. You need to check if a is not None before calling string methods on it.

OpenAI-compatible Endpoint

Now that OpenCode is integrated into the TxtAI ecosystem, it opens a lot of different opportunities. Let's say we want to host a local OpenAI compatible endpoint, no problem!

Write the following file.

config.yml

# Enable OpenAI compat endpoint
openai: True

llm:
  path: opencode

and start the following process.

CONFIG=config.yml uvicorn "txtai.api:app"

from IPython.display import Markdown, display

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="http://localhost:8000/v1",
    api_key="api-key",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    messages=[{
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Show a Python factorial function",
    }],
    model="opencode",
)

display(Markdown((response.choices[0].message.content)))

def factorial(n):
    if n < 0:
        raise ValueError("Factorial is not defined for negative numbers")
    if n == 0 or n == 1:
        return 1
    result = 1
    for i in range(2, n + 1):
        result *= i
    return result

# Example usage:
# print(factorial(5))  # Output: 120

Just like before we get an answer! This time via the OpenAI client. Fun times.

Wrapping up

This article showed how to connect TxtAI and OpenCode. This will lead to some interesting integrations. One such example is ncoder, an AI coding agent that integrates with Jupyter Notebooks. Stay tuned for more!

Distilling Knowledge into Tiny LLMs

David Mezzetti — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:35:44 +0000

Large Language Models (LLMs) are the magic behind AI. These massive billion and trillion parameter models have been shown to generalize well when trained on enough data.

A big problem is that they are hard to run and expensive. So many just call LLMs through APIs such as OpenAI or Claude. Additionally, in many instances, developers spend a lot of time with complex prompt logic hoping to cover all the edge cases and believe they need a model that's large enough to handle all the rules.

If you truly want control over your business processes, running a local model is a better choice. And the good news is that it doesn't have to be a giant and expensive multi-billion parameter model. We can finetune LLMs to handle our specific business logic, which helps us take control and limit prompt complexity.

This article will show how we can distill knowledge into tiny LLMs.

Install dependencies

Install txtai and all dependencies.

pip install txtai[pipeline-train] datasets

The LLM

We'll use a 600M parameter Qwen3 model for this example. Our target task will be translating user requests into linux commands.

from txtai import LLM

llm = LLM("Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B")

Let's try one with the base model as it is.

llm("""
Translate the following request into a linux command. Only print the command.

Find number of logged in users
""", maxlength=1024)

ps -e

As we can see, the model actually has a good understanding and at least prints a command. But in this case it's not correct. Let's get to fine-tuning!

Finetuning the LLM with knowledge

Yes, 600M parameters is small and we can't possibly expect it to do well with everything. But the good news is that we can distill knowledge into this tiny LLM and make it better. We'll use this linux commands dataset from the Hugging Face Hub. We'll also use this training pipeline from txtai.

First, we'll create the training dataset. We'll use the same prompt strategy from above.

"""
Translate the following request into a linux command. Only print the command.

{user request}
"""

from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import AutoTokenizer

# LLM path
path = "Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(path)

# Load the training dataset
dataset = load_dataset("mecha-org/linux-command-dataset", split="train")

def prompt(row):
    text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template([
        {"role": "system", "content": "Translate the following request into a linux command. Only print the command."},
        {"role": "user", "content": row["input"]},
        {"role": "assistant", "content": row["output"]}
    ], tokenize=False, enable_thinking=False)

    return {"text": text}

# Map to training prompts
train = dataset.map(prompt, remove_columns=["input", "output"])

from txtai.pipeline import HFTrainer

# Load the training pipeline
trainer = HFTrainer()

# Train the model
# Set output_dir to save, trained in memory for this example
model = trainer(
    "Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B",
    train,
    task="language-generation",
    maxlength=512,
    bf16=True,
    per_device_train_batch_size=4,
    num_train_epochs=1,
    logging_steps=50,
)

from txtai import LLM

llm = LLM(model)

llm([
    {"role": "system", "content": "Translate the following request into a linux command. Only print the command."},
    {"role": "user", "content": "Find number of logged in users"}
])

who | wc -l

llm([
    {"role": "system", "content": "Translate the following request into a linux command. Only print the command."},
    {"role": "user", "content": "List the files in my home directory"}
])

ls ~/

llm([
    {"role": "system", "content": "Translate the following request into a linux command. Only print the command."},
    {"role": "user", "content": "Zip the data directory with all it's contents"}
])

zip -r data.zip data

It even works well without the system prompt.

llm("Calculate the total amount of disk space used for my home directory. Only print the total.")

du -sh ~

Wrapping up

This article demonstrated how it's very straightforward to distill knowledge into LLMs with txtai. Don't always go for the giant LLM, spend a little time finetuning a tiny LLM, it is well worth it!

RAG is more than Vector Search

David Mezzetti — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:45:27 +0000

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is often associated with vector search. And while that is a primary use case, any search will do.

✅ Vector Search
✅ Web Search
✅ SQL Query

This article will go over a few RAG examples covering different retrieval methods. These examples require txtai 9.3+.

Install dependencies

Install txtai and all dependencies.

pip install txtai[pipeline-data]

# Download example SQL database
wget https://huggingface.co/NeuML/txtai-wikipedia-slim/resolve/main/documents

RAG with Late Interaction

The first example will cover RAG with ColBERT / Late Interaction retrieval. TxtAI 9.0 added support for MUVERA and ColBERT multi-vector ranking.

We'll build a pipeline that reads the ColBERT v2 paper, extracts the text into sections and builds an index with a ColBERT model. Then we'll wrap that as a Reranker pipeline using the same ColBERT model. Finally a RAG pipeline will utilize this for retrieval.

Note: This uses the custom ColBERT Muvera Nano model which is only 970K parameters! That's right thousands. It's surprisingly effective.

from txtai import Embeddings, RAG, Textractor
from txtai.pipeline import Reranker, Similarity

# Get text from ColBERT v2 paper
textractor = Textractor(sections=True, backend="docling")
data = textractor("https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.01488")

# MUVERA fixed dimensional encodings
embeddings = Embeddings(content=True, path="neuml/colbert-muvera-nano", vectors={"trust_remote_code": True})
embeddings.index(data)

# Re-rank using same late interaction model
reranker = Reranker(embeddings, Similarity("neuml/colbert-muvera-nano", lateencode=True, vectors={"trust_remote_code": True}))

template = """
  Answer the following question using the provided context.

  Question:
  {question}

  Context:
  {context}
"""

# RAG with late interaction models
rag = RAG(reranker, "Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507", template=template, output="flatten")
print(rag("Write a sentence abstract about this paper", maxlength=2048))

This paper introduces ColBERTv2, a neural information retrieval model that enhances the quality and efficiency of late interaction by combining an aggressive residual compression mechanism with a denoised supervision strategy, achieving state-of-the-art performance across diverse benchmarks while reducing the model's space footprint by 6–10× compared to previous methods.

RAG with a Web Search

Next we'll run a RAG pipeline using a web search as the retrieval method.

from smolagents import WebSearchTool

tool = WebSearchTool()

def websearch(queries, limit):
    results = []
    for query in queries:
        result = [
            {"id": i, "text": f'{x["title"]} {x["description"]}', "score": 1.0} for i, x in enumerate(tool.search(query))
        ]
        results.append(result[:limit])

    return results

# RAG with a websearch
rag = RAG(websearch, "Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507", template=template, output="flatten")
print(rag("What is AI?", maxlength=2048))

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It involves technologies like machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing, and enables machines to simulate human-like learning, comprehension, problem solving, decision-making, creativity, and autonomy.

RAG with a SQL Query

The last example we'll cover is running RAG with a SQL query. We'll use the SQL database that's a component of the txtai-wikipedia-slim embeddings database.

Since this is just a database with Wikipedia abstracts, we'll need a way to build a SQL query from a search query. For that we'll use an LLM to extract a keyword to use in a LIKE clause.

Given that the LLM used was released in August 2025, let's ask it a question that can only be accurated answered with external data. Who won the 2025 World Series? which ended in November.

import sqlite3

from txtai import LLM

def keyword(query):
    return llm(f"""
        Extract a keyword for this search query: {query}.
        Return only text with no other formatting or explanation.
    """)

def sqlsearch(queries, limit):
    results = []
    sql = "SELECT id, text FROM sections WHERE id LIKE ? LIMIT ?"

    for query in queries:
        # Extract a keyword for this search
        query = keyword(query)

        # Run the SQL Query
        results.append([
            {"id": uid, "text": text, "score": 1.0}
            for uid, text in cursor.execute(sql, [f"%{query}%", limit])
        ])

    return results

# Load the database
cursor = sqlite3.connect("documents")

# Load the LLM
llm = LLM("Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507")

# RAG with a SQL query
rag = RAG(sqlsearch, llm, template=template, output="flatten")
print(rag("Tell me what happened in the 2025 World Series", maxlength=2048))

In the 2025 World Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays in seven games to win the championship. The series took place from October 24 to November 1 (ending early on November 2, Toronto time). Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto was named the World Series MVP. The series was televised by Fox in the United States and by Sportsnet in Canada.

Wrapping up

This article showed that RAG is about much more than vector search. With txtai 9.3+, any callable method is now supported for retrieval. Enjoy!

Accessing Low Level Vector APIs

David Mezzetti — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:01:09 +0000

The primary interface to build vector databases with txtai is through Embeddings instances. txtai also supports accessing all of it's features through lower level APIs.

Let's dive in.

Install dependencies

Install txtai and all dependencies.

pip install txtai[ann]

Load a dataset

We'll use a subset of the FineFineWeb dataset. This dataset is a domain-labeled version of the general purpose FineWeb dataset.

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("m-a-p/FineFineWeb-test", split="train")

Building an Embeddings database

Before going into the low-level API, let's recap how we build an Embeddings database.

from txtai import Embeddings

embeddings = Embeddings()
embeddings.index(ds["text"][:10000])
for uid, score in embeddings.search("nasa", 1):
    print(score, ds[uid]["text"][:100])

0.6012564897537231 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the United States’ civil space program.

This simple example abstracts the heavy lifting behind the Embeddings interface. Behind the scenes, it defaults to vectorizing text using all-MiniLM-L6-v2. Vectors are stored in a Faiss index.

The first 10K records are vectorized and stored in the vector index. Then at query time, the query is vectorized and a vector similarity search is run.

While the Embeddings interface is convenient, it's also possible to access lower level APIs.

Vectors Interface

First, let's vectorize our data using the low level APIs. We'll use the default Hugging Face vectorizer available in txtai.

from txtai.ann import ANNFactory
from txtai.vectors import VectorsFactory

vectors = VectorsFactory.create({"path": "sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2"})
data = vectors.vectorize(ds["text"])

ANN Interface

Now that we have a NumPy array of vectors, let's store them in an Approximate Neighest Neighbor (ANN) backend. Recall earlier, we used the default Faiss interface. For this example, we're going to use the PyTorch ANN. This will allow us to use new features that are available as of txtai 9.1.

ann = ANNFactory.create({
    "backend": "torch",
    "torch": {
        "safetensors": True,
    }
})
ann.index(data)
ann.save("vectors.safetensors")

This ANN builds a Torch tensor with the vectors and stores them in a Safetensors file.

The code below shows how the file is simply a standard Safetensors file.

from safetensors import safe_open

def tensorinfo():
    memory = 0
    with safe_open("vectors.safetensors", framework="np") as f:
        for key in f.keys():
            array = f.get_tensor(key)
            print(key, array.shape)
            memory += array.nbytes

    print(f"Memory = {memory / 1024 / 1024:.2f} MB")

tensorinfo()

data (1411868, 384)
Memory = 2068.17 MB

Vector search

Now let's show how these low-level APIs can be used to implement vector search.

import textwrap

def search(text):
    result = ann.search(vectors.vectorize([text]), 1)
    index, score = result[0][0]
    print(textwrap.fill(ds[index]["text"], width=150), "\n\n", score)

search("How far is earth from mars?")

The answer to your question, that how many miles is it from earth to mars, is very easy to know. Because of huge satellites which are being sent to
mars in search of life from many countries, we have discovered a lot about mars. According to experts, earth and mars reaches to their closest points
in every 26 months. This situation is considered as opposition of mars as the location of sun and mars in totally opposite to each other in relation
to earth. When this opposition takes place, the planet is visible with a red tint in the sky from earth. And this also gives mars a name, i.e. the red
planet. Mars is also the fourth planet from sun, which is located between Jupiter and earth. Its distance from sun is not only opposite but is also
much further away, than that of the earth and sun. The distance between the sun and mars is said to be 140 million miles. Mars can reach about 128
million miles closer to the sun whereas it can even travel around 154 million miles away from it. The assumed distance between mars and earth is said
to be between 40 to 225 million miles. The distance between these two planets keeps on changing throughout the year because of the elliptical path in
which all the planets rotate. As the distance between mars, sun and earth is so much high, it takes a Martian year, for mars to go around the sun. The
Martian period includes a time of around 687 earth days. This means that, it takes more than 2 years for the mars to reach its initial rotation point.
If we talk about one Martian day, it is the total time which is taken by a planet to spin around once. This day usually lasts longer than our regular
earth days. So this was the actual reason which states the distance between earth and mars. 

 0.7060051560401917

Torch 4-bit quantization

txtai 9.1 adds a new feature: 4-bit vector quantization. This means that instead of using 32-bit floats for each vector dimension, this method uses 4 bits. This reduces memory usage to ~12-13% of the original size.

ann = ANNFactory.create({
    "backend": "torch",
    "torch": {
        "safetensors": True,
        "quantize": {
            "type": "nf4"
        }
    }
})
ann.index(data)
ann.save("vectors.safetensors")

tensorinfo()

absmax (8471208,)
code (16,)
data (271078656, 1)
shape (2,)
Memory = 290.84 MB

Note how the unquantized vectors took 2068.17 MB and this only takes 290.84 MB! With quantization and ever growing GPUs, this opens the possibility of pinning your entire vector database in GPU memory!

For example, let's extrapolate this dataset to 100M rows.

(290.84 MB / 1,411,868) * 100,000,000 = 20,599.7 MB

An entire 100M row dataset could fit into a single RTX 3090 / 4090 consumer GPU!

Let's confirm search still works the same.

search("How far is earth from mars?")

The answer to your question, that how many miles is it from earth to mars, is very easy to know. Because of huge satellites which are being sent to
mars in search of life from many countries, we have discovered a lot about mars. According to experts, earth and mars reaches to their closest points
in every 26 months. This situation is considered as opposition of mars as the location of sun and mars in totally opposite to each other in relation
to earth. When this opposition takes place, the planet is visible with a red tint in the sky from earth. And this also gives mars a name, i.e. the red
planet. Mars is also the fourth planet from sun, which is located between Jupiter and earth. Its distance from sun is not only opposite but is also
much further away, than that of the earth and sun. The distance between the sun and mars is said to be 140 million miles. Mars can reach about 128
million miles closer to the sun whereas it can even travel around 154 million miles away from it. The assumed distance between mars and earth is said
to be between 40 to 225 million miles. The distance between these two planets keeps on changing throughout the year because of the elliptical path in
which all the planets rotate. As the distance between mars, sun and earth is so much high, it takes a Martian year, for mars to go around the sun. The
Martian period includes a time of around 687 earth days. This means that, it takes more than 2 years for the mars to reach its initial rotation point.
If we talk about one Martian day, it is the total time which is taken by a planet to spin around once. This day usually lasts longer than our regular
earth days. So this was the actual reason which states the distance between earth and mars. 

 0.6982609033584595

Same result. Note the score is slightly different but this is expected.

GGUF Support

txtai 9.1 also adds support for GGML / GGUF popularized by llama.cpp.

ann = ANNFactory.create({
    "backend": "ggml",
    "ggml": {
        "quantize": "Q4_0"
    }
})
ann.index(data)
ann.save("vectors.gguf")

Now let's check out the generated file using the gguf package provided by llama.cpp.

from gguf.gguf_reader import GGUFReader

reader = GGUFReader("vectors.gguf")

# List all tensors
info = "{:<30} | {:<15} | {:<12} | {}"
print(info.format("Tensor Name", "Shape", "Size", "Quantization"))
print("-" * 80)
for tensor in reader.tensors:
    shape = "x".join(map(str, tensor.shape))
    size = f"{tensor.n_elements / 2 / 1024 / 1024:.2f} MB"
    quantization = tensor.tensor_type.name
    print(info.format(tensor.name, shape, size, quantization))

Tensor Name     | Shape           | Size         | Quantization
----------------------------------------------------------------
data            | 384x1411868     | 258.52 MB    | Q4_0

And search like we did with Torch.

search("How far is earth from mars?")

The answer to your question, that how many miles is it from earth to mars, is very easy to know. Because of huge satellites which are being sent to
mars in search of life from many countries, we have discovered a lot about mars. According to experts, earth and mars reaches to their closest points
in every 26 months. This situation is considered as opposition of mars as the location of sun and mars in totally opposite to each other in relation
to earth. When this opposition takes place, the planet is visible with a red tint in the sky from earth. And this also gives mars a name, i.e. the red
planet. Mars is also the fourth planet from sun, which is located between Jupiter and earth. Its distance from sun is not only opposite but is also
much further away, than that of the earth and sun. The distance between the sun and mars is said to be 140 million miles. Mars can reach about 128
million miles closer to the sun whereas it can even travel around 154 million miles away from it. The assumed distance between mars and earth is said
to be between 40 to 225 million miles. The distance between these two planets keeps on changing throughout the year because of the elliptical path in
which all the planets rotate. As the distance between mars, sun and earth is so much high, it takes a Martian year, for mars to go around the sun. The
Martian period includes a time of around 687 earth days. This means that, it takes more than 2 years for the mars to reach its initial rotation point.
If we talk about one Martian day, it is the total time which is taken by a planet to spin around once. This day usually lasts longer than our regular
earth days. So this was the actual reason which states the distance between earth and mars. 

 0.7043964862823486

Wrapping up

While the Embeddings interface is the preferred way to build vector databases with txtai, it's entirely possible to also build with the low level APIs!

GraphRAG with Wikipedia and GPT OSS

David Mezzetti — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 20:32:13 +0000

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is one of the most popular techniques in the AI space today. RAG takes a user request, retrieves the best matching content and then plugs that context into an LLM prompt to generate an answer. When otherwise not mentioned, most assume the context is generated using a vector database query. But there is no rule that says context can't be generated with other methods. It could be a simple web query, SQL query, text index search or other traditional search.

We also often hear the term GraphRAG. GraphRAG means different things to different people. Here we're going to build an example that uses txtai, wikipedia and gpt-oss to research a specific topic with graphs. txtai has a built-in graph component that automatically generates a graph network over the data loaded into an embeddings database. We'll use a pre-built embeddings database hosted on the Hugging Face Hub, txtai-wikipedia-slim.

Install dependencies

Install txtai and all dependencies.

pip install txtai[graph,pipeline-llm]

Load txtai-wikipedia-slim

Next, we'll load the embeddings database. This database is the top 100K most viewed Wikipedia articles with both a dense vector index and graph network enabled.

from txtai import Embeddings

embeddings = Embeddings().load(provider="huggingface-hub", container="neuml/txtai-wikipedia-slim")

Build context with a graph query

The txtai graph component supports the openCypher query language via the GrandCypher library.

openCypher is a language for expressive and efficient data querying of a property graph. In this example, we'll traverse the embeddings database graph looking for paths between nodes similar to chatgpt and anthropic.

g = embeddings.search("""
MATCH P=(A)-[]->(B)
WHERE SIMILAR(A, 'chatgpt') AND SIMILAR(B, 'anthropic')
RETURN P
LIMIT 10
""", graph=True)

The query above is an extremely powerful combination of an vector similarity node search and a graph traversal query that walks the paths between nodes. It's much more expressive than simply saying find nodes similar to each of the concepts independently. It can be considered a deep graph search.

Plot the context network

Let's show the context as a graph plot!

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import networkx as nx

def plot(graph):
    labels = {x: f"{graph.attribute(x, 'id')}" for x in graph.scan()}
    colors = ["#D32F2F", "#0277bd", "#7e57c2", "#757575"]

    results = embeddings.batchsimilarity(labels.values(), ["Anthropic Claude", "Google Gemini", "OpenAI GPT"])
    colors = [colors[x[0][0]] for x in results]

    options = {
        "node_size": 1000,
        "node_color": colors,
        "edge_color": "#454545",
        "font_color": "#efefef",
        "font_size": 10,
        "alpha": 1.0,
    }

    fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(20, 9))
    pos = nx.spring_layout(graph.backend, seed=0, k=0.9, iterations=50)
    nx.draw_networkx(graph.backend, pos=pos, labels=labels, **options)
    ax.set_facecolor("#303030")
    ax.axis("off")
    fig.set_facecolor("#303030")

    plt.show()

plot(g)

Print the context as text

Let's further inspect the graph nodes.

context = ""
for x in g.scan():
    uid = g.attribute(x, "id")

    context += f"- id: {uid}\n"
    context += f"  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{uid.replace(' ', '_')}\n"
    context += f"  text: {g.attribute(x, 'text')}\n"
    context += f"  links: {[g.attribute(n, 'id') for n in g.edges(x)]}\n"

print(context)

- id: ChatGPT
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT
  text: ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and released on November 30, 2022. It uses large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4o as well as other multimodal models to create human-like responses in text, speech, and images. It has access to features such as searching the web, using apps, and running programs. It is credited with accelerating the AI boom, an ongoing period of rapid investment in and public attention to the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Some observers have raised concern about the potential of ChatGPT and similar programs to displace human intelligence, enable plagiarism, or fuel misinformation.
  links: ['GPT-4', 'GPT-4.5', 'OpenAI', 'Gemini (chatbot)', 'GPT-3', 'GPT-4.1', 'Gemini (language model)', 'Anthropic', 'Claude (language model)']
- id: GPT-4
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-4
  text: Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4) is a multimodal large language model trained and created by OpenAI and the fourth in its series of GPT foundation models. It was launched on March 14, 2023, and made publicly available via the paid chatbot product ChatGPT Plus until being replaced in 2025, via OpenAI's API, and via the free chatbot Microsoft Copilot.
  links: ['ChatGPT', 'GPT-3', 'GPT-4.5', 'GPT-4.1', 'OpenAI', 'Gemini (chatbot)', 'Gemini (language model)', 'Claude (language model)']
- id: GPT-4.5
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-4.5
  text: GPT-4.5 (codenamed "Orion") is a large language model developed by OpenAI as part of the GPT series. Officially released on February 27, 2025, GPT-4.5 is available to users subscribed to the ChatGPT Plus and Pro plans across web, mobile, and desktop platforms. Access is also provided through the OpenAI API and the OpenAI Developer Playground, but the company plans to phase out API access to the model in July.
  links: ['GPT-4.1', 'GPT-4', 'ChatGPT', 'GPT-3', 'OpenAI', 'Claude (language model)', 'Gemini (language model)', 'Anthropic', 'Gemini (chatbot)']
- id: OpenAI
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
  text: OpenAI, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence (AI) organization founded in December 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It aims to develop "safe and beneficial" artificial general intelligence (AGI), which it defines as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work". As a leading organization in the ongoing AI boom, OpenAI is known for the GPT family of large language models, the DALL-E series of text-to-image models, and a text-to-video model named Sora. Its release of ChatGPT in November 2022 has been credited with catalyzing widespread interest in generative AI.
  links: ['ChatGPT', 'GPT-4', 'GPT-3', 'GPT-4.5', 'Anthropic', 'GPT-4.1', 'Gemini (chatbot)', 'Gemini (language model)']
- id: Gemini (chatbot)
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(chatbot)
  text: Gemini, formerly known as Bard, is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Google. Based on the large language model (LLM) of the same name, it was launched in 2023 in response to the rise of OpenAI's ChatGPT. It was previously based on the LaMDA and PaLM LLMs.
  links: ['Gemini (language model)', 'ChatGPT', 'GPT-4', 'Anthropic', 'OpenAI', 'GPT-4.5']
- id: GPT-3
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3
  text: Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) is a large language model released by OpenAI in 2020.
  links: ['GPT-4', 'GPT-4.1', 'ChatGPT', 'OpenAI', 'GPT-4.5', 'Claude (language model)', 'Gemini (language model)']
- id: GPT-4.1
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-4.1
  text: GPT-4.1 is a large language model within OpenAI's GPT series. It was released on April 14, 2025. GPT-4.1 can be accessed through the OpenAI API or the OpenAI Developer Playground. Three different models were simultaneously released: GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano.
  links: ['GPT-4.5', 'GPT-4', 'GPT-3', 'ChatGPT', 'OpenAI', 'Gemini (language model)', 'Claude (language model)']
- id: Gemini (language model)
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(language_model)
  text: Gemini is a family of multimodal large language models (LLMs) developed by Google DeepMind, and the successor to LaMDA and PaLM 2. Comprising Gemini Ultra, Gemini Pro, Gemini Flash, and Gemini Nano, it was announced on December 6, 2023, positioned as a competitor to OpenAI's GPT-4. It powers the chatbot of the same name. In March 2025, Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental was rated as highly competitive.
  links: ['Gemini (chatbot)', 'GPT-4', 'ChatGPT', 'GPT-4.5', 'GPT-4.1', 'GPT-3', 'OpenAI', 'Anthropic']
- id: Anthropic
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
  text: Anthropic PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) startup company founded in 2021. Anthropic has developed a family of large language models (LLMs) named Claude as a competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. According to the company, it researches and develops AI to "study their safety properties at the technological frontier" and use this research to deploy safe models for the public.
  links: ['Claude (language model)', 'OpenAI', 'ChatGPT', 'Gemini (chatbot)', 'GPT-4.5', 'Gemini (language model)']
- id: Claude (language model)
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)
  text: Claude is a family of large language models developed by Anthropic. The first model was released in March 2023.
  links: ['Anthropic', 'GPT-3', 'GPT-4.5', 'GPT-4', 'ChatGPT', 'GPT-4.1']

GraphRAG

Now that we have our graph context, we'll plug that into an LLM prompt.

from txtai import LLM

llm = LLM("unsloth/gpt-oss-20b-GGUF/gpt-oss-20b-Q4_K_M.gguf", n_ctx=20000)

from IPython.display import display, Markdown

out = llm(f"""
Analyze the following context and write an article about it
{context}
""", defaultrole="user", maxlength=20000, stripthink=True)

display(Markdown(out))

Report Output Below

ChatGPT, GPT‑4, and the New Generation of Generative AI: A Timeline of Innovation and Impact

By [Your Name]

Published: 2025‑09‑03

1. The Dawn of Generative AI

The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has long promised “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.” In practice, the most visible manifestation of that promise has been the rapid rise of large language models (LLMs) that can generate text, speech, and even images that read like they were written by a human. The most influential of these models has come from a handful of companies—OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic—each building a family of models that have pushed the boundaries of what machines can do.

2. OpenAI’s GPT Series

Model	Release	Key Features	Notes
GPT‑3	2020	175 billion parameters; first public GPT model	Laid the groundwork for conversational AI
ChatGPT	2022‑11‑30	Uses GPT‑4o and multimodal models; web‑search, app‑integration, program execution	Sparked the “AI boom” and widespread public interest
GPT‑4	2023‑03‑14	Multimodal; released via ChatGPT Plus, API, Microsoft Copilot	Became the de‑facto standard for LLM‑based chat
GPT‑4.1	2025‑04‑14	Three variants (mini, nano) released simultaneously	Improved safety and performance
GPT‑4.5	2025‑02‑27	Codename “Orion”; API access to be phased out in July	Highest‑performance model in the GPT line

OpenAI’s mission—“safe and beneficial” artificial general intelligence—has guided the evolution of these models. The company’s public releases have been accompanied by a steady stream of research papers, API documentation, and developer playgrounds that allow researchers and businesses to experiment with the models at scale.

3. Google DeepMind’s Gemini

Google’s response to the GPT wave came in 2023 with Gemini (chatbot), a generative AI chatbot that replaced the earlier Bard. Gemini is powered by the Gemini (language model) family, which includes Gemini Ultra, Pro, Flash, and Nano. The models were announced on 2023‑12‑06 and positioned as direct competitors to GPT‑4. In March 2025, Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental was rated as “highly competitive,” underscoring the rapid parity between the two ecosystems.

4. Anthropic’s Claude

Founded in 2021, Anthropic PBC has focused on the safety properties of AI. Their flagship LLM family, Claude, was first released in March 2023. Claude is marketed as a competitor to both ChatGPT and Gemini, with a particular emphasis on “safe models for the public.” Anthropic’s research agenda—studying safety at the technological frontier—has positioned it as a counter‑balance to the commercial focus of OpenAI and Google.

5. The Feature Set that Changed the Game

ChatGPT’s launch was not just a new model; it was a new feature set:

Web Search – The ability to query up‑to‑date information in real time.
App Integration – Running third‑party applications directly from the chat interface.
Program Execution – The capacity to run code snippets and return results.

These capabilities turned a simple chatbot into a digital assistant that can browse, compute, and even generate images (via DALL‑E) or video (via Sora). The result was a surge in both consumer and enterprise adoption.

6. Societal Impact and Concerns

The rapid adoption of generative AI has accelerated the AI boom—a period of intense investment and public attention. Yet it has also raised legitimate concerns:

Displacement of Human Intelligence – Critics worry that advanced LLMs could replace human expertise in fields ranging from journalism to law.
Plagiarism and Academic Integrity – The ease of producing high‑quality text has made it harder to detect original work.
Misinformation – Models can generate plausible but false narratives, amplifying the spread of fake news.

OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic have all invested in safety research, but the debate continues over how best to balance innovation with responsibility.

7. Looking Ahead

The trajectory of generative AI suggests a few key trends:

Continued Model Scaling – GPT‑4.5 and GPT‑4.1 demonstrate that larger models still deliver incremental gains.
Multimodal Integration – Future releases will likely blend text, image, audio, and video more tightly.
Regulatory Engagement – Governments and industry groups are beginning to draft guidelines for AI safety and transparency.
Democratization of Access – APIs and developer playgrounds are making advanced AI available to a broader audience, from hobbyists to large enterprises.

8. Conclusion

From GPT‑3’s 175 billion parameters to GPT‑4.5’s “Orion” codename, the generative AI landscape has evolved at a breakneck pace. OpenAI’s ChatGPT catalyzed a wave of public fascination, while Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude have kept the competition fierce. As these models become more capable, the conversation around safety, ethics, and societal impact will only grow more urgent. The next few years will likely see generative AI move from a novelty to a foundational technology—one that will shape how we write, compute, and even think.

References

ChatGPT – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT
GPT‑4 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-4
GPT‑4.5 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-4.5
OpenAI – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
Gemini (chatbot) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(chatbot)
GPT‑3 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3
GPT‑4.1 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-4.1
Gemini (language model) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(language_model)
Anthropic – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
Claude (language model) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)

Wrapping up

There we have it, GraphRAG in a very straightforward and easy-to-understand manner. The best ideas often are the simple ones!

💡 What's new in txtai 9.0

David Mezzetti — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:41:16 +0000

The 9.0 release adds first class support for sparse vector models (i.e. SPLADE), late interaction models (i.e. ColBERT), fixed dimensional encoding (i.e. MUVERA) and reranking pipelines ✨

The embeddings framework was overhauled to seamlessly support both sparse and dense vector models. Previously, sparse vector support was limited to keyword/term indexes. Now learned sparse retrieval models such as SPLADE are supported. These models can help improve the accuracy of retrieval/search operations, which also improves RAG and Agents.

Support for late interaction models, such as ColBERT, were also added to the embeddings framework. Unlike traditional vector models that pool outputs into single vector outputs, late interaction models produce multiple vectors. These models are paired with the MUVERA algorithm to transform multiple vectors into fixed dimensional single vectors for search.

LLMs are quickly converging to produce similar outputs for similar inputs and becoming standard commodities. The retrieval or context layer makes or breaks projects. This is known as putting the R in RAG!

Standard upgrade disclaimer below

While everything is backwards compatible, it's prudent to backup production indexes before upgrading and test before deploying.

Install dependencies

Install txtai and all dependencies.

pip install txtai[ann,vectors]

Sparse vector indexes

The first major change added with this release is learned sparse retrieval (aka sparse vector indexes) models. This effort was multi-faceted in that it required both changes to how vectors were generated as well as how they are stored.

txtai uses approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search for it's vector search operations. The default library is Faiss. There is support for other libraries but in all cases the existing ANN backends only supported dense (i.e. NumPy) vectors.

There aren't many options out there for sparse ANN search that supports txtai requirements, so IVFSparse was introduced. IVFSparse is an Inverted file (IVF) index with flat vector file storage and sparse array support. There is also support for storing sparse vectors in Postgres via pgvector.

Let's see it in action.

from txtai import Embeddings

# Works with a list, dataset or generator
data = [
  "US tops 5 million confirmed virus cases",
  "Canada's last fully intact ice shelf has suddenly collapsed, forming a Manhattan-sized iceberg",
  "Beijing mobilises invasion craft along coast as Taiwan tensions escalate",
  "The National Park Service warns against sacrificing slower friends in a bear attack",
  "Maine man wins $1M from $25 lottery ticket",
  "Make huge profits without work, earn up to $100,000 a day"
]

# Create an embeddings
embeddings = Embeddings(sparse=True, content=True)
embeddings.index(data)
embeddings.search("North America", 10)

[{'id': '0',
  'text': 'US tops 5 million confirmed virus cases',
  'score': 0.019873601198196412},
 {'id': '1',
  'text': "Canada's last fully intact ice shelf has suddenly collapsed, forming a Manhattan-sized iceberg",
  'score': 0.018737798929214476}]

Late interaction models

Late interaction models encode data into multi-vector outputs. In other words, multiple input tokens map to multiple output vectors. Then at search time, the maximum similarity algorithm is used to find the best matches between the corpus and a query. This algorithm has achieved excellent results on retrieval benchmarks such as MTEB.

The downside of this approach is that it produces multiple vectors as opposed a single vector for each input. For example, if a text element tokenizes to many input tokens, there will be many output vectors vs a single one as with standard pooled vector approaches.

Starting with the 9.0 release, late interaction models are supported with embeddings instances. Late interaction vectors will be transformed into fixed dimensional vectors using the MUVERA algorithm. See below.

from txtai import Embeddings

# Works with a list, dataset or generator
data = [
  "US tops 5 million confirmed virus cases",
  "Canada's last fully intact ice shelf has suddenly collapsed, forming a Manhattan-sized iceberg",
  "Beijing mobilises invasion craft along coast as Taiwan tensions escalate",
  "The National Park Service warns against sacrificing slower friends in a bear attack",
  "Maine man wins $1M from $25 lottery ticket",
  "Make huge profits without work, earn up to $100,000 a day"
]

# Create an embeddings
embeddings = Embeddings(path="colbert-ir/colbertv2.0", content=True)
embeddings.index(data)
embeddings.search("North America", 10)

[{'id': '0',
  'text': 'US tops 5 million confirmed virus cases',
  'score': 0.04216160625219345},
 {'id': '1',
  'text': "Canada's last fully intact ice shelf has suddenly collapsed, forming a Manhattan-sized iceberg",
  'score': 0.029944246634840965},
 {'id': '3',
  'text': 'The National Park Service warns against sacrificing slower friends in a bear attack',
  'score': 0.015931561589241028}]

Reranking pipeline

Another major new component in this release is the Reranker pipeline. This pipeline takes an embeddings instance, a similarity instance and uses the similarity instance to rerank outputs. This is a key component of the MUVERA paper - using the standard vector index to retrieve candidates then reranking the outputs using the late interaction model.

from txtai import Embeddings
from txtai.pipeline import Reranker, Similarity

# Works with a list, dataset or generator
data = [
  "US tops 5 million confirmed virus cases",
  "Canada's last fully intact ice shelf has suddenly collapsed, forming a Manhattan-sized iceberg",
  "Beijing mobilises invasion craft along coast as Taiwan tensions escalate",
  "The National Park Service warns against sacrificing slower friends in a bear attack",
  "Maine man wins $1M from $25 lottery ticket",
  "Make huge profits without work, earn up to $100,000 a day"
]

# Create an embeddings
embeddings = Embeddings(path="colbert-ir/colbertv2.0", content=True)
embeddings.index(data)

similarity = Similarity(path="colbert-ir/colbertv2.0", lateencode=True)

ranker = Reranker(embeddings, similarity)
ranker("North America")

[{'id': '1',
  'text': "Canada's last fully intact ice shelf has suddenly collapsed, forming a Manhattan-sized iceberg",
  'score': 0.3324427008628845},
 {'id': '0',
  'text': 'US tops 5 million confirmed virus cases',
  'score': 0.24423550069332123},
 {'id': '3',
  'text': 'The National Park Service warns against sacrificing slower friends in a bear attack',
  'score': 0.16353240609169006}]

Notice that while the outputs are the same, the scoring and order is different.

Let's try a more interesting example.

from txtai import Embeddings
from txtai.pipeline import Reranker, Similarity

# Create an embeddings
embeddings = Embeddings()
embeddings.load(provider="huggingface-hub", container="neuml/txtai-wikipedia")

similarity = Similarity(path="colbert-ir/colbertv2.0", lateencode=True)

ranker = Reranker(embeddings, similarity)
ranker("Tell me about ChatGPT")

[{'id': 'ChatGPT',
  'text': 'ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and released on November 30, 2022. It uses large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4o as well as other multimodal models to create human-like responses in text, speech, and images. It has access to features such as searching the web, using apps, and running programs. It is credited with accelerating the AI boom, an ongoing period of rapid investment in and public attention to the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Some observers have raised concern about the potential of ChatGPT and similar programs to displace human intelligence, enable plagiarism, or fuel misinformation.',
  'score': 0.6639302968978882},
 {'id': 'ChatGPT Search',
  'text': 'ChatGPT Search (originally SearchGPT) is a search engine developed by OpenAI. It combines traditional search engine features with generative pretrained transformers (GPT) to generate responses, including citations to external websites.',
  'score': 0.6477508544921875},
 {'id': 'ChatGPT in education',
  'text': 'The usage of ChatGPT in education has sparked considerable debate and exploration. ChatGPT is a chatbot based on large language models (LLMs) that was released by OpenAI in November 2022.',
  'score': 0.5918337106704712}]

Wrapping up

This article gave a quick overview of txtai 9.0. Updated documentation and more examples will be forthcoming. There is much to cover and much to build on!

See the following links for more information.

Medical RAG Research with txtai

David Mezzetti — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:23:43 +0000

Large Language Models (LLMs) have captured the public's attention with their impressive capabilities. The Generative AI era has reached a fever pitch with some predicting the coming rise of superintelligence.

LLMs are far from perfect though and we're still a ways away from true AI. One big challenge is with hallucinations. Hallucinations is the term for when an LLM generates output that is factually incorrect. The alarming part of this is that on a cursory glance, it actually sounds like factual content. The default behavior of LLMs is to produce plausible answers even when no plausible answer exists. LLMs are not great at saying I don't know.

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) helps reduce the risk of hallucinations by limiting the context in which a LLM can generate answers. This is typically done with a search query that hydrates a prompt with a relevant context. RAG has been one of the most practical use cases of the Generative AI era.

This article will demonstrate how to build a Medical RAG Research process with txtai.

Install dependencies

Install txtai and all dependencies.

pip install txtai

Medical Dataset

For this example, we'll use a PubMed subset of article metadata for H5N1. This dataset was created using paperetl, an open-source library for parsing medical and scientific papers.

PubMed has over 38 million article abstracts as of June 2025. paperetl supports loading the full dataset with all 38 million articles or just a smaller subset. The dataset link above has more details on how this can be changed for different codes and keywords. This link also has information on how the article abstracts can be loaded in addition to the metadata.

from datasets import load_dataset
from txtai import Embeddings

ds = load_dataset("neuml/pubmed-h5n1", split="train")

Next, we'll build a txtai embeddings index with the articles. We'll use a vector embeddings model that specializes in vectorizing medical papers: PubMedBERT Embeddings.

embeddings = Embeddings(path="neuml/pubmedbert-base-embeddings", content=True, columns={"text": "title"})
embeddings.index(x for x in ds if x["title"])

embeddings.count()

RAG Pipeline

There are a number of prior examples on how to run RAG with txtai. The RAG pipeline takes two main parameters, an embeddings database and an LLM. The embeddings database is the one just created above. For this example, we'll use a simple local LLM with 600M parameters.

Substitute your own embeddings database to change the knowledge base. txtai supports running local LLMs via transformers or llama.cpp. It also supports a wide variety of LLMs via LiteLLM. For example, setting the 2nd RAG pipeline parameter below to gpt-4o along with the appropriate environment variables with access keys switches to a hosted LLM. See this documentation page for more on this.

from txtai import RAG

# Prompt templates
system = "You are a friendly medical assistant that answers questions"
template = """
Answer the following question using the provided context.

Question:
{question}

Context:
{context}
"""

# Create RAG pipeline
rag = RAG(embeddings, "Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B", system=system, template=template, output="flatten")

RAG Queries

Now that the pipeline is setup, let's run a query.

print(rag("Tell me about H5N1"))

<think>
Okay, let's see. The user is asking about H5N1. The context provided starts with "Why tell me now?" and then goes into facts about H5N1. The first sentence mentions that people and healthcare providers are weighing in on pandemic messages. Then it says H5N1 is avian influenza, a potential pandemic.

Wait, but the user's question is about H5N1. The context doesn't go into specifics about what H5N1 is, but it does state that it's avian influenza. So I need to make sure I answer based on that. The answer should be concise, maybe mention that H5N1 is avian flu and it's a potential pandemic. Also, note that people are weighing in on messages. But I need to check if there's any more information. The context ends there. So the answer should be straightforward.
</think>

H5N1 influenza viruses are a type of avian influenza, a potential pandemic influenza virus that could cause widespread illness and death. While the context highlights the importance of public health and preparedness, it does not provide more specific details about its characteristics or risks.

Notice that this LLM outputs a thinking or reasoning section then the answer.

Let's review the context to validate this answer is derived from the knowledge base.

embeddings.search("Tell me about H5N1", limit=10)

[{'id': '16775537',
  'text': '"Why tell me now?" the public and healthcare providers weigh in on pandemic influenza messages.',
  'score': 0.7156285643577576},
 {'id': '22308474',
  'text': 'H5N1 influenza viruses: facts, not fear.',
  'score': 0.658343493938446},
 {'id': '16440117',
  'text': 'Avian influenza--a pandemic waiting to happen?',
  'score': 0.5827972888946533},
 {'id': '20667302',
  'text': 'The influenza A(H5N1) epidemic at six and a half years: 500 notified human cases and more to come.',
  'score': 0.5593500137329102},
 {'id': '18936262',
  'text': 'What Australians know and believe about bird flu: results of a population telephone survey.',
  'score': 0.5568690299987793},
 {'id': '30349811',
  'text': 'Back to the Future: Lessons Learned From the 1918 Influenza Pandemic.',
  'score': 0.5540266036987305},
 {'id': '17276785',
  'text': 'Pandemic influenza: what infection control professionals should know.',
  'score': 0.5519200563430786},
 {'id': '16681227',
  'text': 'A pandemic flu: not if, but when. SARS was the wake-up call we slept through.',
  'score': 0.5518345832824707},
 {'id': '22402712',
  'text': 'Ferretting out the facts behind the H5N1 controversy.',
  'score': 0.5508109331130981},
 {'id': '25546511',
  'text': "One-way trip: influenza virus' adaptation to gallinaceous poultry may limit its pandemic potential.",
  'score': 0.5494509339332581}]

The answer is doing a good job being based on the context above. Also keep in mind this is a small 600M parameter model, which is even more impressive.

Let's try another query.

print(rag("What locations have had H5N1 outbreaks?"))

<think>
Okay, let's see. The user is asking about the locations that have had H5N1 outbreaks, and the provided context mentions a few places: Indonesia and Bangladesh. The context also has a title about a decade of avian influenza in Bangladesh and mentions "H5N1." 

Wait, the user's question is in English, so I need to make sure I'm interpreting the context correctly. The context includes two sentences: one about a decade in Bangladesh and another about H5N1. The user is probably looking for specific locations where H5N1 has been reported. 

Looking at the context again, it says "Human avian influenza in Indonesia" and "A Decade of Avian Influenza in Bangladesh: Where Are We Now? Are we ready for pandemic influenza H5N1?" So the outbreaks are in Indonesia and Bangladesh. 

I should confirm that there are no other mentions of other locations. The context doesn't provide more information beyond those two countries. Therefore, the answer should list Indonesia and Bangladesh as the locations with H5N1 outbreaks.
</think>

The locations with H5N1 outbreaks are Indonesia and Bangladesh.

embeddings.search("What locations have had H5N1 outbreaks?", limit=10)

[{'id': '21706937',
  'text': 'Human avian influenza in Indonesia: are they really clustered?',
  'score': 0.6269429326057434},
 {'id': '31514405',
  'text': 'A Decade of Avian Influenza in Bangladesh: Where Are We Now?',
  'score': 0.5972536206245422},
 {'id': '15889987',
  'text': 'Are we ready for pandemic influenza H5N1?',
  'score': 0.5863772630691528},
 {'id': '17717543',
  'text': 'Commentary: From scarcity to abundance: pandemic vaccines and other agents for "have not" countries.',
  'score': 0.5844159126281738},
 {'id': '22491771',
  'text': 'Two years after pandemic influenza A/2009/H1N1: what have we learned?',
  'score': 0.5812581777572632},
 {'id': '39666804',
  'text': "Why hasn't the bird flu pandemic started?",
  'score': 0.5738048553466797},
 {'id': '23402131',
  'text': 'Where do avian influenza viruses meet in the Americas?',
  'score': 0.5638074278831482},
 {'id': '20667302',
  'text': 'The influenza A(H5N1) epidemic at six and a half years: 500 notified human cases and more to come.',
  'score': 0.560465395450592},
 {'id': '17338983',
  'text': 'Human avian influenza: how ready are we?',
  'score': 0.555113673210144},
 {'id': '24518630',
  'text': 'Recognizing true H5N1 infections in humans during confirmed outbreaks.',
  'score': 0.5501888990402222}]

Once again the answer is based on the context which mentions the two countries in the answer. The context also discusses the Americas but it doesn't have as strong of language connecting H5N1 outbreaks to the location.

Add citations

The last item we'll cover is citations. One of the most important aspects of a RAG process is being able to ensure the answer is based on reality. There are a number of ways to do this but in this example, we'll ask the LLM to perform this step.

# Prompt templates
system = "You are a friendly medical assistant that answers questions"
template = """
Answer the following question using the provided context.

After the answer, write a citation section with ALL the original article ids used for the answer.

Question:
{question}

Context:
{context}
"""

def context(question):
    context = []
    for x in embeddings.search(question, limit=10):
        context.append(f"ARTICLE ID: {x['id']}, TEXT: {x['text']}")

    return context

# Create RAG pipeline
rag = RAG(embeddings, "Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B", system=system, template=template, output="flatten")

question = "What is H5N1?"
print(rag(question, context(question), maxlength=2048, stripthink=True))

H5N1 is a type of avian influenza virus.  

**Citation Section:**  
- ARTICLE ID: 22010536, TEXT: Is avian influenza virus A(H5N1) a real threat to human health?

As expected, the answer adds a citation section. Also note that the RAG pipeline stripped the thinking section from the result.

Wrapping up

This article covered how to build a Medical RAG Research process with txtai. It also covered how to modify this logic to add in your own knowledge base or use a more sophisticated LLM.

With an important space such as the medical domain, it's vital to ensure that answers are derived from reliable knowledge. This article shows how to add that reliability via RAG. But as with anything in an important domain, there should be a human in the loop and answers shouldn't be blindly relied upon.

OpenAI Compatible API

David Mezzetti — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:52:14 +0000

txtai has long been able host a FastAPI based service. There are clients for Python, JavaScript, Java, Rust, Go.

The API service also supports hosting OpenAI-compatible API endpoints. A standard OpenAI client can then be used to connect to a txtai service. This enables quickly trying txtai with a familiar-to-use client. It's also a way to do local/offline development testing using the OpenAI client.

This article will walk through comprehensive examples.

Start API service

For this article, we'll run txtai through Docker.

Save the following to /tmp/config/config.yml.

config.yml

# Enable OpenAI compat endpoint
openai: True

# Load Wikipedia Embeddings index
cloud:
  provider: huggingface-hub
  container: neuml/txtai-wikipedia

# LLM instance
llm:
  path: llava-hf/llava-interleave-qwen-0.5b-hf

# RAG pipeline configuration
rag:
  path: Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507
  output: flatten
  system: You are a friendly assistant. You answer questions from users.
  template: |
    Answer the following question using only the context below. Only include information
    specifically discussed.

    question: {question}
    context: {context}

# Text to Speech
texttospeech:
  path: neuml/kokoro-fp16-onnx

# Transcription
transcription:
  path: distil-whisper/distil-large-v3

Start Docker service.

docker run -it -p 8000:8000 -v /tmp/config:/config -e CONFIG=/config/config.yml \
--entrypoint uvicorn neuml/txtai-gpu --host 0.0.0.0 txtai.api:app

Alternatively, txtai can be directly installed and run as follows:

pip install txtai[all] autoawq autoawq-kernels
CONFIG=/tmp/config/config.yml uvicorn "txtai.api:app"

The API has token-based authorization built-in. Read more on that here.

Run a text chat completion

The first example will run a text chat completion. The model is a RAG pipeline - this is more sophisticated than just a simple LLM call!

Agents, pipelines and workflows can all be run through this interface!

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="http://localhost:8000/v1",
    api_key="api-key",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    messages=[{
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Tell me about the iPhone",
    }],
    model="rag",
    stream=True
)

for chunk in response:
    if chunk.choices:
        print(chunk.choices[0].delta.content, end="")

The iPhone is a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. that uses Apple's iOS mobile operating system. The first-generation iPhone was announced by former Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007. 

Since then, Apple has annually released new iPhone models and iOS updates. The most recent models being the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus, and the higher-end iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max. 

More than 2.3 billion iPhones have been sold as of January 1, 2024, making Apple the largest vendor of mobile phones in 2023.

As mentioned above, the model supports much of what's available in txtai. For example, let's run a chat completion that runs an embeddings search.

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    messages=[{
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Tell me about the iPhone",
    }],
    model="embeddings",
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

The iPhone is a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. that uses Apple's iOS mobile operating system. The first-generation iPhone was announced by former Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007. Since then, Apple has annually released new iPhone models and iOS updates. iPhone naming has followed various patterns throughout its history.

Vision models

Any supported txtai LLM can be run through the chat completion API. Let's run an example that describes an image.

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="llm",
    messages = [{
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "text", "text": "What is in this image?"},
            {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {
                "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neuml/txtai/master/logo.png",
            }}
        ]}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

The image shows a logo with the text "Txtai" in blue and green colors.

Embeddings API

Next let's generate embeddings.

for x in client.embeddings.create(input="This is a test", model="vectors").data:
    print(x)

Embedding(embedding=[-0.01969079300761223, 0.024085085839033127, 0.0043829963542521, -0.027423616498708725, 0.040405914187431335, 0.017446696758270264, 0.028464825823903084, 0.000792442646343261, -0.03107883222401142, -0.024745089933276176, -0.013542148284614086, 0.039981111884117126, -0.01401221938431263, -0.011294773779809475, -0.04346214607357979, 0.015698621049523354, 0.03775031119585037, -0.009020405821502209, 0.046784739941358566, -0.017400527372956276, -0.0670166090130806, -0.05122058466076851, 0.027725063264369965, -0.023947732523083687, -0.044582683593034744, 0.04960233345627785, 0.029517438262701035, 0.05424104258418083, -0.06027599796652794, -0.035852570086717606, 0.01336587406694889, -0.008941668085753918, 0.00014064145216252655, -0.05230511724948883, -0.02150369994342327, 0.04969678074121475, -0.05967864394187927, -0.029450856149196625, -0.01113089732825756, -0.01256561279296875, -0.012282170355319977, 0.03466389700770378, -0.005313237197697163, -0.037443146109580994, 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0.042976900935173035, -0.06253521889448166, 0.02173938974738121, 0.01422695629298687, 0.06118226796388626], index=0, object='embedding')

This uses the vector model associated with the current embeddings database.

Text to Speech (TTS)

This API can do more than just work with text. Let's generate speech.

from IPython.display import Audio, display

with client.audio.speech.with_streaming_response.create(
    model="neuml/kokoro-fp16-onnx",
    input="txtai is an all-in-one embeddings database for semantic search, LLM orchestration and semantic workflows",
    voice="bm_lewis",
) as response:
    response.stream_to_file(file="out.mp3")

display(Audio("out.mp3"))

Transcription

The generated speech can also be transcribed back to text.

f = open("out.mp3", "rb")
client.audio.transcriptions.create(
    model="whisper",
    file=f
).text

"Text AI is an all in one embedding's database for semantic search, LLM orchestration and semantic workflows."

JavaScript client

Given that this is an OpenAI-compatible API, other OpenAI clients are also supported. Let's try a few examples with the JavaScript client.

Install via npm install openai

import OpenAI from "openai";

const openai = new OpenAI({
    baseURL: "http://localhost:8000/v1",
    apiKey: "api-key"
});

async function main() {
    const stream = await openai.chat.completions.create({
        model: "rag",
        messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Tell me about the iPhone" }],
        stream: true,
    });

    for await (const chunk of stream) {
        process.stdout.write(chunk.choices[0]?.delta?.content || "");
    }
}

main();

The iPhone is a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. that uses Apple's iOS mobile operating system. The first-generation iPhone was announced by former Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007. As of January 1, 2024, more than 2.3 billion iPhones have been sold, making Apple the largest vendor of mobile phones in 2023.

As we can see, this is the same output as we had earlier with the Python client.

Let's try generating speech.

import fs from "fs";
import path from "path";
import OpenAI from "openai";

const openai = new OpenAI({
    baseURL: "http://localhost:8000/v1",
    apiKey: "api-key"
});

const speechFile = path.resolve("./speech.mp3");

async function main() {
  const mp3 = await openai.audio.speech.create({
    model: "neuml/kokoro-fp16-onnx",
    input: "txtai is an all-in-one embeddings database for semantic search, LLM orchestration and semantic workflows",
    voice: "bm_lewis",
  });

  const buffer = Buffer.from(await mp3.arrayBuffer());
  await fs.promises.writeFile(speechFile, buffer);
}

main();

Speech is the same as above, as expected.

import fs from "fs";
import OpenAI from "openai";

const openai = new OpenAI({
    baseURL: "http://localhost:8000/v1",
    apiKey: "api-key"
});

async function main() {
  const transcription = await openai.audio.transcriptions.create({
    file: fs.createReadStream("speech.mp3"),
    model: "whisper",
  });

  console.log(transcription.text);
}

main();

Text AI is an all in one embedding's database for semantic search, LLM orchestration and semantic workflows.

Wrapping up

This article covered how to setup an OpenAI-compatible API endpoint for txtai. It enables quickly trying txtai with a familiar-to-use client. It's also a way to do local/offline development testing using the OpenAI client. Just another way to make it easier to use txtai!

Chunking your data for RAG

David Mezzetti — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:47:32 +0000

One of the major workflows in txtai is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Large Language Models (LLM) are built to generate coherent sounding text. While in many cases it is factually accurate, that is not what they're built to do. RAG steps in to help inject smaller pieces of knowledge into a LLM prompt and increase the overall accuracy of responses. The R in RAG is very important.

This article will demonstrate how to extract, chunk and index text to support retrieval operations for RAG.

Install dependencies

Install txtai and all dependencies.

pip install txtai[pipeline-text]

Data chunking and indexing

Let's dive right in and keep this example simple. The next section creates a Textractor pipeline and an Embeddings database.

The Textractor extracts chunks of text from files and the Embeddings takes those chunks and builds an index/database. We'll use a late chunker backed by Chonkie.

Then, we'll build an indexing workflow that streams chunks from two files.

from txtai import Embeddings
from txtai.pipeline import Textractor

# Text extraction pipeline with late chunking via Chonkie
textractor = Textractor(chunker="late")
embeddings = Embeddings(content=True)

def stream():
    urls = ["https://github.com/neuml/txtai", "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.11401"]
    for x, url in enumerate(urls):
        chunks = textractor(url)

        # Add all chunks - use the same document id for each chunk
        for chunk in chunks:
            yield x, chunk

        # Add the document metadata with the same document id
        # Can be any metadata. Can also be the entire document.
        yield x, {"url": url}

# Index the chunks and metadata
embeddings.index(stream())

A key element of txtai that is commonly misunderstood is how to best store chunks of data and join them back to the main document. txtai allows re-using the same logical id multiple times.

Behind the scenes, each chunk gets it's own unique index id. The backend database stores chunks in a table called sections and data in a table called documents. This has been the case as far back as txtai 4.0. txtai also has the ability to store associated binary data in a table called objects. It's important to note that each associated document or object is only stored once.

To illustrate, let's look at the first 20 rows in the embeddings database created.

for x in embeddings.search("SELECT indexid, id, url, text from txtai", 20):
    print(x)

{'indexid': 0, 'id': '0', 'url': 'https://github.com/neuml/txtai', 'text': '**GitHub - neuml/txtai: 💡 All-in-one open-source embeddings database for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows**\n\n*💡 All-in-one open-source embeddings database for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows - neuml/txtai*\n\n\n\n**All-in-one embeddings database** \ntxtai is an all-in-one embeddings database for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows.\n\nEmbeddings databases are a union of vector indexes (sparse and dense), graph networks and relational databases.\n\nThis foundation enables vector search and/or serves as a powerful knowledge source for large language model (LLM) applications.\n\nBuild autonomous agents, retrieval augmented generation (RAG) processes, multi-model workflows and more.\n\nSummary of txtai features:\n\n- 🔎 Vector search with SQL, object storage, topic modeling, graph analysis and multimodal indexing\n- 📄 Create embeddings for text, documents, audio, images and video\n- 💡 Pipelines powered by language models that run LLM prompts, question-answering, labeling, transcription, translation, summarization and more\n- ↪️️ Workflows to join pipelines together and aggregate business logic. txtai processes can be simple microservices or multi-model workflows.\n- 🤖 Agents that intelligently connect embeddings, pipelines, workflows and other agents together to autonomously solve complex problems\n- ⚙️ Build with Python or YAML. API bindings available for [JavaScript](https://github.com/neuml/txtai.js) , [Java](https://github.com/neuml/txtai.java) , [Rust](https://github.com/neuml/txtai.rs) and [Go](https://github.com/neuml/txtai.go) .\n- 🔋 Batteries included with defaults to get up and running fast\n- ☁️ Run local or scale out with container orchestration\ntxtai is built with Python 3.10+, [Hugging Face Transformers](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers) , [Sentence Transformers](https://github.'}
{'indexid': 1, 'id': '0', 'url': 'https://github.com/neuml/txtai', 'text': 'com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers) and [FastAPI](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi) . txtai is open-source under an Apache 2.0 license.\n\n*Interested in an easy and secure way to run hosted txtai applications? Then join the* [txtai.cloud](https://txtai.cloud) *preview to learn more.* \n\n## Why txtai?\nNew vector databases, LLM frameworks and everything in between are sprouting up daily. Why build with txtai?\n\n- Up and running in minutes with [pip](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/install/) or [Docker](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/cloud/) \n```

\n# Get started in a couple lines\nimport txtai\n\nembeddings = txtai.Embeddings()\nembeddings.index(["Correct", "Not what we hoped"])\nembeddings.search("positive", 1)\n#[(0, 0.29862046241760254)]\n

```\n\n- Built-in API makes it easy to develop applications using your programming language of choice\n```

\n# app.yml\nembeddings:\n path: sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2\n

```\n\n```

\nCONFIG=app.yml uvicorn "txtai.api:app"\ncurl -X GET "http://localhost:8000/search?query=positive"\n

```\n\n- Run local - no need to ship data off to disparate remote services\n- Work with micromodels all the way up to large language models (LLMs)\n- Low footprint - install additional dependencies and scale up when needed\n- [Learn by example](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/examples) - notebooks cover all available functionality\n\n## Use Cases\nThe following sections introduce common txtai use cases. A comprehensive set of over 60 [example notebooks and applications](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/examples) are also available.\n\n\n### Semantic Search\nBuild semantic/similarity/vector/neural search applications.'}
{'indexid': 2, 'id': '0', 'url': 'https://github.com/neuml/txtai', 'text': 'Traditional search systems use keywords to find data. Semantic search has an understanding of natural language and identifies results that have the same meaning, not necessarily the same keywords.\n\nGet started with the following examples.\n\n|Notebook|Description||\n|---|---|---|\n|[Introducing txtai](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/01_Introducing_txtai.ipynb) |Overview of the functionality provided by txtai||\n|[Similarity search with images](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/13_Similarity_search_with_images.ipynb) |Embed images and text into the same space for search||\n|[Build a QA database](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/34_Build_a_QA_database.ipynb) |Question matching with semantic search||\n|[Semantic Graphs](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/38_Introducing_the_Semantic_Graph.ipynb) |Explore topics, data connectivity and run network analysis||\n\n### LLM Orchestration\nAutonomous agents, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), chat with your data, pipelines and workflows that interface with large language models (LLMs).\n\nSee below to learn more.\n\n|Notebook|Description||\n|---|---|---|\n|[Prompt templates and task chains](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/44_Prompt_templates_and_task_chains.ipynb) |Build model prompts and connect tasks together with workflows||\n|[Integrate LLM frameworks](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/53_Integrate_LLM_Frameworks.ipynb) |Integrate llama.cpp, LiteLLM and custom generation frameworks||\n|[Build knowledge graphs with LLMs](https://github.'}
{'indexid': 3, 'id': '0', 'url': 'https://github.com/neuml/txtai', 'text': 'com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/57_Build_knowledge_graphs_with_LLM_driven_entity_extraction.ipynb) |Build knowledge graphs with LLM-driven entity extraction||\n\n#### Agents\nAgents connect embeddings, pipelines, workflows and other agents together to autonomously solve complex problems.\n\ntxtai agents are built on top of the Transformers Agent framework. This supports all LLMs txtai supports (Hugging Face, llama.cpp, OpenAI / Claude / AWS Bedrock via LiteLLM).\n\nSee the link below to learn more.\n\n|Notebook|Description||\n|---|---|---|\n|[Analyzing Hugging Face Posts with Graphs and Agents](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/68_Analyzing_Hugging_Face_Posts_with_Graphs_and_Agents.ipynb) |Explore a rich dataset with Graph Analysis and Agents||\n|[Granting autonomy to agents](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/69_Granting_autonomy_to_agents.ipynb) |Agents that iteratively solve problems as they see fit||\n|[Analyzing LinkedIn Company Posts with Graphs and Agents](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/71_Analyzing_LinkedIn_Company_Posts_with_Graphs_and_Agents.ipynb) |Exploring how to improve social media engagement with AI||\n\n#### Retrieval augmented generation\nRetrieval augmented generation (RAG) reduces the risk of LLM hallucinations by constraining the output with a knowledge base as context. RAG is commonly used to "chat with your data".\n\nA novel feature of txtai is that it can provide both an answer and source citation.\n\n|Notebook|Description||\n|---|---|---|\n|[Build RAG pipelines with txtai](https://github.'}
{'indexid': 4, 'id': '0', 'url': 'https://github.com/neuml/txtai', 'text': 'com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/52_Build_RAG_pipelines_with_txtai.ipynb) |Guide on retrieval augmented generation including how to create citations||\n|[How RAG with txtai works](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/63_How_RAG_with_txtai_works.ipynb) |Create RAG processes, API services and Docker instances||\n|[Advanced RAG with graph path traversal](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/58_Advanced_RAG_with_graph_path_traversal.ipynb) |Graph path traversal to collect complex sets of data for advanced RAG||\n|[Speech to Speech RAG](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/65_Speech_to_Speech_RAG.ipynb) |Full cycle speech to speech workflow with RAG||\n\n### Language Model Workflows\nLanguage model workflows, also known as semantic workflows, connect language models together to build intelligent applications.\n\nWhile LLMs are powerful, there are plenty of smaller, more specialized models that work better and faster for specific tasks. This includes models for extractive question-answering, automatic summarization, text-to-speech, transcription and translation.\n\n|Notebook|Description||\n|---|---|---|\n|[Run pipeline workflows](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/14_Run_pipeline_workflows.ipynb) |Simple yet powerful constructs to efficiently process data||\n|[Building abstractive text summaries](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/09_Building_abstractive_text_summaries.ipynb) |Run abstractive text summarization||\n|[Transcribe audio to text](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/11_Transcribe_audio_to_text.'}
{'indexid': 5, 'id': '0', 'url': 'https://github.com/neuml/txtai', 'text': 'ipynb) |Convert audio files to text||\n|[Translate text between languages](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/12_Translate_text_between_languages.ipynb) |Streamline machine translation and language detection||\n\n## Installation\nThe easiest way to install is via pip and PyPI\n\n```

\npip install txtai\n

```\n\nPython 3.10+ is supported. Using a Python [virtual environment](https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html) is recommended.\n\nSee the detailed [install instructions](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/install) for more information covering [optional dependencies](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/install/#optional-dependencies) , [environment specific prerequisites](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/install/#environment-specific-prerequisites) , [installing from source](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/install/#install-from-source) , [conda support](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/install/#conda) and how to [run with containers](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/cloud) .\n\n\n## Model guide\nSee the table below for the current recommended models. These models all allow commercial use and offer a blend of speed and performance.\n\n|Component|Model(s)|\n|---|---|\n|[Embeddings](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/embeddings) |[all-MiniLM-L6-v2](https://hf.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2) |\n|[Image Captions](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/image/caption) |[BLIP](https://hf.co/Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-base) |'}
{'indexid': 6, 'id': '0', 'url': 'https://github.com/neuml/txtai', 'text': '|[Labels - Zero Shot](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/text/labels) |[BART-Large-MNLI](https://hf.co/facebook/bart-large) |\n|[Labels - Fixed](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/text/labels) |Fine-tune with [training pipeline](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/train/trainer) |\n|[Large Language Model (LLM)](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/text/llm) |[Llama 3.1 Instruct](https://hf.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct) |\n|[Summarization](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/text/summary) |[DistilBART](https://hf.co/sshleifer/distilbart-cnn-12-6) |\n|[Text-to-Speech](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/audio/texttospeech) |[ESPnet JETS](https://hf.co/NeuML/ljspeech-jets-onnx) |\n|[Transcription](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/audio/transcription) |[Whisper](https://hf.co/openai/whisper-base) |\n|[Translation](https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/text/translation) |[OPUS Model Series](https://hf.co/Helsinki-NLP) |\nModels can be loaded as either a path from the Hugging Face Hub or a local directory. Model paths are optional, defaults are loaded when not specified. For tasks with no recommended model, txtai uses the default models as shown in the Hugging Face Tasks guide.\n\nSee the following links to learn more.\n\n\n## Powered by txtai\nThe following applications are powered by txtai.'}
{'indexid': 7, 'id': '0', 'url': 'https://github.com/neuml/txtai', 'text': "|Application|Description|\n|---|---|\n|[rag](https://github.com/neuml/rag) |Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) application|\n|[ragdata](https://github.com/neuml/ragdata) |Build knowledge bases for RAG|\n|[paperai](https://github.com/neuml/paperai) |Semantic search and workflows for medical/scientific papers|\n|[annotateai](https://github.com/neuml/annotateai) |Automatically annotate papers with LLMs|\nIn addition to this list, there are also many other [open-source projects](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/network/dependents) , [published research](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=txtai&hl=en&as_ylo=2022) and closed proprietary/commercial projects that have built on txtai in production.\n\n\n## Further Reading\n- [Tutorial series on Hashnode](https://neuml.hashnode.dev/series/txtai-tutorial) | [dev.to](https://dev.to/neuml/tutorial-series-on-txtai-ibg) \n- [What's new in txtai 8.0](https://medium.com/neuml/whats-new-in-txtai-8-0-2d7d0ab4506b) | [7.0](https://medium.com/neuml/whats-new-in-txtai-7-0-855ad6a55440) | [6.0](https://medium.com/neuml/whats-new-in-txtai-6-0-7d93eeedf804) | [5.0](https://medium.com/neuml/whats-new-in-txtai-5-0-e5c75a13b101) | [4.0](https://medium."}
{'indexid': 8, 'id': '0', 'url': 'https://github.com/neuml/txtai', 'text': 'com/neuml/whats-new-in-txtai-4-0-bbc3a65c3d1c) \n- [Getting started with semantic search](https://medium.com/neuml/getting-started-with-semantic-search-a9fd9d8a48cf) | [workflows](https://medium.com/neuml/getting-started-with-semantic-workflows-2fefda6165d9) | [rag](https://medium.com/neuml/getting-started-with-rag-9a0cca75f748) \n\n## Documentation\n[Full documentation on txtai](https://neuml.github.io/txtai) including configuration settings for embeddings, pipelines, workflows, API and a FAQ with common questions/issues is available.\n\n\n## Contributing\nFor those who would like to contribute to txtai, please see [this guide](https://github.com/neuml/.github/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) .'}
{'indexid': 9, 'id': '1', 'url': 'https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.11401', 'text': 'Retrieval-Augmented Generation for\nKnowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks\n\nPatrick Lewis†‡, Ethan Perez?,\n\nAleksandra Piktus†, Fabio Petroni†, Vladimir Karpukhin†, Naman Goyal†, Heinrich Küttler†,\n\nMike Lewis†, Wen-tau Yih†, Tim Rocktäschel†‡, Sebastian Riedel†‡, Douwe Kiela†\n\n†Facebook AI Research; ‡University College London; ?New York University;\nplewis@fb.com\n\nAbstract\n\nLarge pre-trained language models have been shown to store factual knowledge\nin their parameters, and achieve state-of-the-art results when fine-tuned on down-\nstream NLP tasks. However, their ability to access and precisely manipulate knowl-\nedge is still limited, and hence on knowledge-intensive tasks, their performance\nlags behind task-specific architectures. Additionally, providing provenance for their\ndecisions and updating their world knowledge remain open research problems. Pre-\ntrained models with a differentiable access mechanism to explicit non-parametric\nmemory have so far been only investigated for extractive downstream tasks. We\nexplore a general-purpose fine-tuning recipe for retrieval-augmented generation\n(RAG) — models which combine pre-trained parametric and non-parametric mem-\nory for language generation. We introduce RAG models where the parametric\nmemory is a pre-trained seq2seq model and the non-parametric memory is a dense\nvector index of Wikipedia, accessed with a pre-trained neural retriever. We com-\npare two RAG formulations, one which conditions on the same retrieved passages\nacross the whole generated sequence, and another which can use different passages\nper token. We fine-tune and evaluate our models on a wide range of knowledge-\nintensive NLP tasks and set the state of the art on three open domain QA tasks,\noutperforming parametric seq2seq models and task-specific retrieve-and-extract\narchitectures. For language generation tasks, we find that RAG models generate\nmore specific, diverse and factual language than a state-of-the-art parametric-only\nseq2seq baseline.\n\n1 Introduction\n\nPre-trained neural language models have been shown to learn a substantial amount of in-depth knowl-\nedge from data [47]. They can do so without any access to an external memory, as a parameterized\nimplicit knowledge base [51, 52].'}
{'indexid': 10, 'id': '1', 'url': 'https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.11401', 'text': 'While this development is exciting, such models do have down-\nsides: They cannot easily expand or revise their memory, can’t straightforwardly provide insight into\ntheir predictions, and may produce “hallucinations” [38]. Hybrid models that combine parametric\nmemory with non-parametric (i.e., retrieval-based) memories [20, 26, 48] can address some of these\nissues because knowledge can be directly revised and expanded, and accessed knowledge can be\ninspected and interpreted. REALM [20] and ORQA [31], two recently introduced models that\ncombine masked language models [8] with a differentiable retriever, have shown promising results,\n\nar\nX\n\niv\n:2\n\n00\n5.\n\n11\n40\n\n1v\n4 \n\n [\ncs\n\n.C\nL\n\n] \n 1\n\n2 \nA\n\npr\n 2\n\n02\n1\n\n\nThe\tDivine\nComedy\t(x) q\n\nQuery\nEncoder\n\nq(x)\n\nMIPS pθ\n\nGenerator\xa0pθ\n(Parametric)\n\nMargin-\nalize\n\nThis\t14th\tcentury\twork\nis\tdivided\tinto\t3\nsections:\t"Inferno",\n"Purgatorio"\t&\n"Paradiso"\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(y)\n\nEnd-to-End Backprop through q and\xa0pθ\n\nBarack\tObama\twas\nborn\tin\tHawaii.(x)\n\nFact Verification: Fact Query\n\nsupports\t(y)\n\nQuestion Generation\n\nFact Verification:\nLabel Generation\n\nDocument\nIndex\n\nDefine\t"middle\tear"(x)\n\nQuestion Answering:\nQuestion Query\n\nThe\tmiddle\tear\tincludes\nthe\ttympanic\tcavity\tand\nthe\tthree\tossicles.\t\t(y)\n\nQuestion Answering:\nAnswer GenerationRetriever pη\n\n(Non-Parametric)\nz4\n\nz3\nz2\n\nz1\n\nd(z)\n\nJeopardy Question\nGeneration:\n\nAnswer Query\n\nFigure 1: Overview of our approach. We combine a pre-trained retriever (Query Encoder + Document\nIndex) with a pre-trained seq2seq model (Generator) and fine-tune end-to-end. For query x, we use\nMaximum Inner Product Search (MIPS) to find the top-K documents zi. For final prediction y, we\ntreat z as a latent variable and marginalize over seq2seq predictions given different documents.\n\nbut have only explored open-domain extractive question answering. Here, we bring hybrid parametric\nand non-parametric memory to the “workhorse of NLP,” i.e. sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models.\n\nWe endow pre-trained, parametric-memory generation models with a non-parametric memory through'}
{'indexid': 11, 'id': '1', 'url': 'https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.11401', 'text': 'a general-purpose fine-tuning approach which we refer to as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).\nWe build RAG models where the parametric memory is a pre-trained seq2seq transformer, and the\nnon-parametric memory is a dense vector index of Wikipedia, accessed with a pre-trained neural\nretriever. We combine these components in a probabilistic model trained end-to-end (Fig. 1). The\nretriever (Dense Passage Retriever [26], henceforth DPR) provides latent documents conditioned on\nthe input, and the seq2seq model (BART [32]) then conditions on these latent documents together with\nthe input to generate the output. We marginalize the latent documents with a top-K approximation,\neither on a per-output basis (assuming the same document is responsible for all tokens) or a per-token\nbasis (where different documents are responsible for different tokens). Like T5 [51] or BART, RAG\ncan be fine-tuned on any seq2seq task, whereby both the generator and retriever are jointly learned.\n\nThere has been extensive previous work proposing architectures to enrich systems with non-parametric\nmemory which are trained from scratch for specific tasks, e.g. memory networks [64, 55], stack-\naugmented networks [25] and memory layers [30]. In contrast, we explore a setting where both\nparametric and non-parametric memory components are pre-trained and pre-loaded with extensive\nknowledge. Crucially, by using pre-trained access mechanisms, the ability to access knowledge is\npresent without additional training.\n\nOur results highlight the benefits of combining parametric and non-parametric memory with genera-\ntion for knowledge-intensive tasks—tasks that humans could not reasonably be expected to perform\nwithout access to an external knowledge source. Our RAG models achieve state-of-the-art results\non open Natural Questions [29], WebQuestions [3] and CuratedTrec [2] and strongly outperform\nrecent approaches that use specialised pre-training objectives on TriviaQA [24]. Despite these being'}
{'indexid': 12, 'id': '1', 'url': 'https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.11401', 'text': 'extractive tasks, we find that unconstrained generation outperforms previous extractive approaches.\nFor knowledge-intensive generation, we experiment with MS-MARCO [1] and Jeopardy question\ngeneration, and we find that our models generate responses that are more factual, specific, and\ndiverse than a BART baseline. For FEVER [56] fact verification, we achieve results within 4.3% of\nstate-of-the-art pipeline models which use strong retrieval supervision. Finally, we demonstrate that\nthe non-parametric memory can be replaced to update the models’ knowledge as the world changes.1\n\n2 Methods\n\nWe explore RAG models, which use the input sequence x to retrieve text documents z and use them\nas additional context when generating the target sequence y. As shown in Figure 1, our models\nleverage two components: (i) a retriever pη(z|x) with parameters η that returns (top-K truncated)\ndistributions over text passages given a query x and (ii) a generator pθ(yi|x, z, y1:i−1) parametrized\n\n1Code to run experiments with RAG has been open-sourced as part of the HuggingFace Transform-\ners Library [66] and can be found at https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/master/\nexamples/rag/. An interactive demo of RAG models can be found at https://huggingface.co/rag/\n\n2\n\n[https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/master/examples/rag/](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/master/examples/rag/) \n[https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/master/examples/rag/](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/master/examples/rag/) \n[https://huggingface.co/rag/](https://huggingface.co/rag/) \n\nby θ that generates a current token based on a context of the previous i− 1 tokens y1:i−1, the original\ninput x and a retrieved passage z.\n\nTo train the retriever and generator end-to-end, we treat the retrieved document as a latent variable.\nWe propose two models that marginalize over the latent documents in different ways to produce a'}
{'indexid': 13, 'id': '1', 'url': 'https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.11401', 'text': 'distribution over generated text. In one approach, RAG-Sequence, the model uses the same document\nto predict each target token. The second approach, RAG-Token, can predict each target token based\non a different document. In the following, we formally introduce both models and then describe the\npη and pθ components, as well as the training and decoding procedure.\n\n2.1 Models\n\nRAG-Sequence Model The RAG-Sequence model uses the same retrieved document to generate\nthe complete sequence. Technically, it treats the retrieved document as a single latent variable that\nis marginalized to get the seq2seq probability p(y|x) via a top-K approximation. Concretely, the\ntop K documents are retrieved using the retriever, and the generator produces the output sequence\nprobability for each document, which are then marginalized,\n\npRAG-Sequence(y|x) ≈\n∑\n\nz∈top-k(p(·|x))\n\npη(z|x)pθ(y|x, z) =\n∑\n\nz∈top-k(p(·|x))\n\npη(z|x)\nN∏\ni\n\npθ(yi|x, z, y1:i−1)\n\nRAG-Token Model In the RAG-Token model we can draw a different latent document for each\ntarget token and marginalize accordingly. This allows the generator to choose content from several\ndocuments when producing an answer. Concretely, the top K documents are retrieved using the\nretriever, and then the generator produces a distribution for the next output token for each document,\nbefore marginalizing, and repeating the process with the following output token, Formally, we define:\n\npRAG-Token(y|x) ≈\nN∏\ni\n\n∑\nz∈top-k(p(·|x))\n\npη(z|x)pθ(yi|x, z, y1:i−1)\n\nFinally, we note that RAG can be used for sequence classification tasks by considering the target class\nas a target sequence of length one, in which case RAG-Sequence and RAG-Token are equivalent.\n\n2.2 Retriever: DPR\n\nThe retrieval component pη(z|x) is based on DPR [26]. DPR follows a bi-encoder architecture:\n\npη(z|x) ∝ exp\n(\nd(z)>q(x)\n\n)\nd(z) = BERTd(z), q(x) = BERTq(x)'}
{'indexid': 14, 'id': '1', 'url': 'https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.11401', 'text': 'where d(z) is a dense representation of a document produced by a BERTBASE document encoder [8],\nand q(x) a query representation produced by a query encoder, also based on BERTBASE. Calculating\ntop-k(pη(·|x)), the list of k documents z with highest prior probability pη(z|x), is a Maximum Inner\nProduct Search (MIPS) problem, which can be approximately solved in sub-linear time [23]. We use\na pre-trained bi-encoder from DPR to initialize our retriever and to build the document index. This\nretriever was trained to retrieve documents which contain answers to TriviaQA [24] questions and\nNatural Questions [29]. We refer to the document index as the non-parametric memory.\n\n2.3 Generator: BART\n\nThe generator component pθ(yi|x, z, y1:i−1) could be modelled using any encoder-decoder. We use\nBART-large [32], a pre-trained seq2seq transformer [58] with 400M parameters. To combine the input\nx with the retrieved content z when generating from BART, we simply concatenate them. BART was\npre-trained using a denoising objective and a variety of different noising functions. It has obtained\nstate-of-the-art results on a diverse set of generation tasks and outperforms comparably-sized T5\nmodels [32]. We refer to the BART generator parameters θ as the parametric memory henceforth.\n\n2.4 Training\n\nWe jointly train the retriever and generator components without any direct supervision on what\ndocument should be retrieved. Given a fine-tuning training corpus of input/output pairs (xj , yj), we\n\n3\n\n\nminimize the negative marginal log-likelihood of each target,\n∑\nj − log p(yj |xj) using stochastic\n\ngradient descent with Adam [28]. Updating the document encoder BERTd during training is costly as\nit requires the document index to be periodically updated as REALM does during pre-training [20].'}
{'indexid': 15, 'id': '1', 'url': 'https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.11401', 'text': 'We do not find this step necessary for strong performance, and keep the document encoder (and\nindex) fixed, only fine-tuning the query encoder BERTq and the BART generator.\n\n2.5 Decoding\n\nAt test time, RAG-Sequence and RAG-Token require different ways to approximate argmaxy p(y|x).\n\nRAG-Token The RAG-Token model can be seen as a standard, autoregressive seq2seq genera-\ntor with transition probability: p′θ(yi|x, y1:i−1) =\n\n∑\nz∈top-k(p(·|x)) pη(zi|x)pθ(yi|x, zi, y1:i−1) To\n\ndecode, we can plug p′θ(yi|x, y1:i−1) into a standard beam decoder.\n\nRAG-Sequence For RAG-Sequence, the likelihood p(y|x) does not break into a conventional per-\ntoken likelihood, hence we cannot solve it with a single beam search. Instead, we run beam search for\neach document z, scoring each hypothesis using pθ(yi|x, z, y1:i−1). This yields a set of hypotheses\nY , some of which may not have appeared in the beams of all documents. To estimate the probability\nof an hypothesis y we run an additional forward pass for each document z for which y does not\nappear in the beam, multiply generator probability with pη(z|x) and then sum the probabilities across\nbeams for the marginals. We refer to this decoding procedure as “Thorough Decoding.” For longer\noutput sequences, |Y | can become large, requiring many forward passes. For more efficient decoding,\nwe can make a further approximation that pθ(y|x, zi) ≈ 0 where y was not generated during beam\nsearch from x, zi. This avoids the need to run additional forward passes once the candidate set Y has\nbeen generated. We refer to this decoding procedure as “Fast Decoding.”\n\n3 Experiments\n\nWe experiment with RAG in a wide range of knowledge-intensive tasks. For all experiments, we use\na single Wikipedia dump for our non-parametric knowledge source. Following Lee et al. [31] and\nKarpukhin et al. [26], we use the December 2018 dump. Each Wikipedia article is split into disjoint'}
{'indexid': 16, 'id': '1', 'url': 'https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.11401', 'text': '100-word chunks, to make a total of 21M documents. We use the document encoder to compute an\nembedding for each document, and build a single MIPS index using FAISS [23] with a Hierarchical\nNavigable Small World approximation for fast retrieval [37]. During training, we retrieve the top\nk documents for each query. We consider k ∈ {5, 10} for training and set k for test time using dev\ndata. We now discuss experimental details for each task.\n\n3.1 Open-domain Question Answering\n\nOpen-domain question answering (QA) is an important real-world application and common testbed\nfor knowledge-intensive tasks [20]. We treat questions and answers as input-output text pairs (x, y)\nand train RAG by directly minimizing the negative log-likelihood of answers. We compare RAG to\nthe popular extractive QA paradigm [5, 7, 31, 26], where answers are extracted spans from retrieved\ndocuments, relying primarily on non-parametric knowledge. We also compare to “Closed-Book\nQA” approaches [52], which, like RAG, generate answers, but which do not exploit retrieval, instead\nrelying purely on parametric knowledge. We consider four popular open-domain QA datasets: Natural\nQuestions (NQ) [29], TriviaQA (TQA) [24]. WebQuestions (WQ) [3] and CuratedTrec (CT) [2]. As\nCT and WQ are small, we follow DPR [26] by initializing CT and WQ models with our NQ RAG\nmodel. We use the same train/dev/test splits as prior work [31, 26] and report Exact Match (EM)\nscores. For TQA, to compare with T5 [52], we also evaluate on the TQA Wiki test set.\n\n3.2 Abstractive Question Answering\n\nRAG models can go beyond simple extractive QA and answer questions with free-form, abstractive\ntext generation. To test RAG’s natural language generation (NLG) in a knowledge-intensive setting,\nwe use the MSMARCO NLG task v2.1 [43]. The task consists of questions, ten gold passages'}
{'indexid': 17, 'id': '1', 'url': 'https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.11401', 'text': 'retrieved from a search engine for each question, and a full sentence answer annotated from the\nretrieved passages. We do not use the supplied passages, only the questions and answers, to treat\n\n4\n\n\nMSMARCO as an open-domain abstractive QA task. MSMARCO has some questions that cannot be\nanswered in a way that matches the reference answer without access to the gold passages, such as\n“What is the weather in Volcano, CA?” so performance will be lower without using gold passages.\nWe also note that some MSMARCO questions cannot be answered using Wikipedia alone. Here,\nRAG can rely on parametric knowledge to generate reasonable responses.\n\n3.3 Jeopardy Question Generation\n\nTo evaluate RAG’s generation abilities in a non-QA setting, we study open-domain question gen-\neration. Rather than use questions from standard open-domain QA tasks, which typically consist\nof short, simple questions, we propose the more demanding task of generating Jeopardy questions.\nJeopardy is an unusual format that consists of trying to guess an entity from a fact about that entity.\nFor example, “The World Cup” is the answer to the question “In 1986 Mexico scored as the first\ncountry to host this international sports competition twice.” As Jeopardy questions are precise,\nfactual statements, generating Jeopardy questions conditioned on their answer entities constitutes a\nchallenging knowledge-intensive generation task.\n\nWe use the splits from SearchQA [10], with 100K train, 14K dev, and 27K test examples. As\nthis is a new task, we train a BART model for comparison. Following [67], we evaluate using the\nSQuAD-tuned Q-BLEU-1 metric [42]. Q-BLEU is a variant of BLEU with a higher weight for\nmatching entities and has higher correlation with human judgment for question generation than\nstandard metrics. We also perform two human evaluations, one to assess generation factuality, and\none for specificity. We define factuality as whether a statement can be corroborated by trusted external'}
{'indexid': 18, 'id': '1', 'url': 'https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.11401', 'text': 'sources, and specificity as high mutual dependence between the input and output [33]. We follow\nbest practice and use pairwise comparative evaluation [34]. Evaluators are shown an answer and two\ngenerated questions, one from BART and one from RAG. They are then asked to pick one of four\noptions—quuestion A is better, question B is better, both are good, or neither is good.\n\n3.4 Fact Verification\n\nFEVER [56] requires classifying whether a natural language claim is supported or refuted by\nWikipedia, or whether there is not enough information to decide. The task requires retrieving\nevidence from Wikipedia relating to the claim and then reasoning over this evidence to classify\nwhether the claim is true, false, or unverifiable from Wikipedia alone. FEVER is a retrieval problem\ncoupled with an challenging entailment reasoning task. It also provides an appropriate testbed for\nexploring the RAG models’ ability to handle classification rather than generation. We map FEVER\nclass labels (supports, refutes, or not enough info) to single output tokens and directly train with\nclaim-class pairs. Crucially, unlike most other approaches to FEVER, we do not use supervision on\nretrieved evidence. In many real-world applications, retrieval supervision signals aren’t available, and\nmodels that do not require such supervision will be applicable to a wider range of tasks. We explore\ntwo variants: the standard 3-way classification task (supports/refutes/not enough info) and the 2-way\n(supports/refutes) task studied in Thorne and Vlachos [57]. In both cases we report label accuracy.\n\n4 Results\n\n4.1 Open-domain Question Answering\n\nTable 1 shows results for RAG along with state-of-the-art models. On all four open-domain QA\ntasks, RAG sets a new state of the art (only on the T5-comparable split for TQA). RAG combines\nthe generation flexibility of the “closed-book” (parametric only) approaches and the performance of\n"open-book" retrieval-based approaches. Unlike REALM and T5+SSM, RAG enjoys strong results\nwithout expensive, specialized “salient span masking” pre-training [20]. It is worth noting that RAG’s\nretriever is initialized using DPR’s retriever, which uses retrieval supervision on Natural Questions\nand TriviaQA. RAG compares favourably to the DPR QA system, which uses a BERT-based “cross-'}
{'indexid': 19, 'id': '1', 'url': 'https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.11401', 'text': 'encoder” to re-rank documents, along with an extractive reader. RAG demonstrates that neither a\nre-ranker nor extractive reader is necessary for state-of-the-art performance.\n\nThere are several advantages to generating answers even when it is possible to extract them. Docu-\nments with clues about the answer but do not contain the answer verbatim can still contribute towards\na correct answer being generated, which is not possible with standard extractive approaches, leading\n\n5\n\n\nTable 1: Open-Domain QA Test Scores. For TQA,\nleft column uses the standard test set for Open-\nDomain QA, right column uses the TQA-Wiki\ntest set. See Appendix D for further details.\n\nModel NQ TQA WQ CT\n\nClosed\nBook\n\nT5-11B [52] 34.5 - /50.1 37.4 -\nT5-11B+SSM[52] 36.6 - /60.5 44.7 -\n\nOpen\nBook\n\nREALM [20] 40.4 - / - 40.7 46.8\nDPR [26] 41.5 57.9/ - 41.1 50.6\n\nRAG-Token 44.1 55.2/66.1 45.5 50.0\nRAG-Seq. 44.5 56.8/68.0 45.2 52.2\n\nTable 2: Generation and classification Test Scores.\nMS-MARCO SotA is [4], FEVER-3 is [68] and\nFEVER-2 is [57] *Uses gold context/evidence.\nBest model without gold access underlined.\n\nModel Jeopardy MSMARCO FVR3 FVR2\nB-1 QB-1 R-L B-1 Label Acc.\n\nSotA - - 49.8* 49.9* 76.8 92.2*\n\nBART 15.1 19.7 38.2 41.6 64.0 81.1\n\nRAG-Tok. 17.3 22.2 40.1 41.5 72.5 89.5RAG-Seq. 14.7 21.4 40.8 44.2\n\nto more effective marginalization over documents. Furthermore, RAG can generate correct answers\neven when the correct answer is not in any retrieved document, achieving 11.8% accuracy in such\ncases for NQ, where an extractive model would score 0%.\n\n4.2 Abstractive Question Answering'}

Note that the id/metadata is the same but the indexid and chunk text change with each row.

Retrieval

Last thing here is to illustrate a couple retrieval operations. LLMs are great at generating answers when we properly bound the context. See the two examples below.

print(embeddings.search("What is it called when LLM generation is bounded with factually correct data?", 1)[0]["text"])

including less of emphasis on lightly editing a retrieved item, but on aggregating content from several
pieces of retrieved content, as well as learning latent retrieval, and retrieving evidence documents
rather than related training pairs. This said, RAG techniques may work well in these settings, and
could represent promising future work.

6 Discussion

In this work, we presented hybrid generation models with access to parametric and non-parametric
memory. We showed that our RAG models obtain state of the art results on open-domain QA. We
found that people prefer RAG’s generation over purely parametric BART, finding RAG more factual
and specific. We conducted an thorough investigation of the learned retrieval component, validating
its effectiveness, and we illustrated how the retrieval index can be hot-swapped to update the model
without requiring any retraining. In future work, it may be fruitful to investigate if the two components
can be jointly pre-trained from scratch, either with a denoising objective similar to BART or some
another objective. Our work opens up new research directions on how parametric and non-parametric
memories interact and how to most effectively combine them, showing promise in being applied to a
wide variety of NLP tasks.

9


Broader Impact

This work offers several positive societal benefits over previous work: the fact that it is more
strongly grounded in real factual knowledge (in this case Wikipedia) makes it “hallucinate” less
with generations that are more factual, and offers more control and interpretability. RAG could be
employed in a wide variety of scenarios with direct benefit to society, for example by endowing it
with a medical index and asking it open-domain questions on that topic, or by helping people be more
effective at their jobs.

With these advantages also come potential downsides: Wikipedia, or any potential external knowledge
source, will probably never be entirely factual and completely devoid of bias. Since RAG can be
employed as a language model, similar concerns as for GPT-2 [50] are valid here, although arguably
to a lesser extent, including that it might be used to generate abuse, faked or misleading content in
the news or on social media; to impersonate others; or to automate the production of spam/phishing
content [54]. Advanced language models may also lead to the automation of various jobs in the
coming decades [16].

print(embeddings.search("Tell me about semantic search", 1)[0]["text"])

Traditional search systems use keywords to find data. Semantic search has an understanding of natural language and identifies results that have the same meaning, not necessarily the same keywords.

Get started with the following examples.

|Notebook|Description||
|---|---|---|
|[Introducing txtai](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/01_Introducing_txtai.ipynb) |Overview of the functionality provided by txtai||
|[Similarity search with images](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/13_Similarity_search_with_images.ipynb) |Embed images and text into the same space for search||
|[Build a QA database](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/34_Build_a_QA_database.ipynb) |Question matching with semantic search||
|[Semantic Graphs](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/38_Introducing_the_Semantic_Graph.ipynb) |Explore topics, data connectivity and run network analysis||

### LLM Orchestration
Autonomous agents, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), chat with your data, pipelines and workflows that interface with large language models (LLMs).

See below to learn more.

|Notebook|Description||
|---|---|---|
|[Prompt templates and task chains](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/44_Prompt_templates_and_task_chains.ipynb) |Build model prompts and connect tasks together with workflows||
|[Integrate LLM frameworks](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/53_Integrate_LLM_Frameworks.ipynb) |Integrate llama.cpp, LiteLLM and custom generation frameworks||
|[Build knowledge graphs with LLMs](https://github.

Note how both answers give more than enough information for a LLM to answer the question.

Wrapping up

This article covered how to build a retrieval system for RAG with txtai. Chunking and retrieval are key pieces of a RAG system, arguably the most important. With the commoditization of LLMs, it's going to be more and more important on how data is presented to LLMs. When given concise information, LLMs can take it from there!

DEV Community: NeuML

Agent Tools

Install dependencies

Create the Agent

Search a directory for content

Summarize content in a Technical Article

Searching a code base

Building code with AI

Add a new TxtAI pipeline

Wrapping up

TxtAI got skills

Install dependencies

Define a skill.md file

Query for TxtAI questions

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Agentic College Search

Install dependencies

Define an agents.md file

Identify the Top 20 schools

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OpenCode as a txtai LLM

Install dependencies

Create a OpenCode LLM

OpenAI-compatible Endpoint

config.yml

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Distilling Knowledge into Tiny LLMs

Install dependencies

The LLM

Finetuning the LLM with knowledge

Wrapping up

RAG is more than Vector Search

Install dependencies

RAG with Late Interaction

RAG with a Web Search

RAG with a SQL Query

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Accessing Low Level Vector APIs

Install dependencies

Load a dataset

Building an Embeddings database

Vectors Interface

ANN Interface

Vector search

Torch 4-bit quantization

GGUF Support

Wrapping up

GraphRAG with Wikipedia and GPT OSS

Install dependencies

Load txtai-wikipedia-slim

Build context with a graph query

Plot the context network

Print the context as text

GraphRAG

Report Output Below

1. The Dawn of Generative AI

2. OpenAI’s GPT Series

3. Google DeepMind’s Gemini

4. Anthropic’s Claude

5. The Feature Set that Changed the Game

6. Societal Impact and Concerns

7. Looking Ahead

8. Conclusion

Wrapping up

💡 What's new in txtai 9.0

Install dependencies

Sparse vector indexes

Late interaction models

Reranking pipeline

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Medical RAG Research with txtai

Install dependencies

Medical Dataset

RAG Pipeline

RAG Queries

Add citations

Wrapping up

OpenAI Compatible API

Start API service

config.yml

Define a `skill.md` file

Define an `agents.md` file