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LangChain retriever implementation with various retrieval strategies for RAG applications

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name: langchain-retriever
description: LangChain retriever implementation with various retrieval strategies for RAG applications
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graph:
  domains: [domain:software-engineering]
  specializations: [specialization:ai-agents-conversational]
  skillAreas: [skill-area:retrieval-augmented-generation, skill-area:search-indexing]
  roles: [role:ml-engineer, role:backend-engineer]
  workflows: [workflow:ml-model-lifecycle, workflow:feature-development]

LangChain Retriever Skill

Capabilities

  • Implement various LangChain retriever types
  • Configure vector store retrievers
  • Set up multi-query retrievers for improved recall
  • Implement contextual compression retrievers
  • Design ensemble retrievers combining multiple strategies
  • Configure self-query retrievers for structured filtering

Target Processes

  • rag-pipeline-implementation
  • advanced-rag-patterns

Implementation Details

Retriever Types

1. **VectorStoreRetriever**: Basic similarity search 2. **MultiQueryRetriever**: Generates query variations 3. **ContextualCompressionRetriever**: Filters and compresses results 4. **EnsembleRetriever**: Combines multiple retrievers 5. **SelfQueryRetriever**: Structured metadata filtering 6. **ParentDocumentRetriever**: Returns parent chunks

Configuration Options

  • Search type (similarity, mmr, similarity_score_threshold)
  • Number of documents to retrieve (k)
  • Score thresholds
  • Metadata filtering
  • Compression settings

Dependencies

  • langchain
  • langchain-community
  • Vector store client
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langchain-retriever installs in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode and Windsurf with the skills CLI, using each agent's flag shown on this page. Flowy's auto-invocation, which fires a skill when your prompt matches, runs in Claude Code only.