RAG Architecture Templates — 31 Copy-Paste Templates & Checklists for Production Retrieval Systems

Stop re-deriving your RAG stack from blog posts.

The RAG Architecture Templates give you 31 copy-paste templates and checklists covering the full production retrieval pipeline — the exact configurations, defaults, and gates from the book RAG Architecture: Designing Production-Grade Retrieval Systems and its companion course code. Adopt the whole stack, or lift a single template into the system you already run.

What's inside (7 sections):

1. Pipeline & Ingestion (3) — reference pipeline configuration, chunk metadata schema, ingestion quality checklist

2. Chunking Configurations (6) — fixed-size, recursive/sentence-aware, semantic, structure-aware, sentence-window, and a chunk-size selection worksheet with the real tradeoffs

3. Embeddings & Indexing (4) — embedding model selection & versioning, vector quality checks, HNSW/IVF/PQ index design, index operations

4. Hybrid Search (5) — BM25 configuration (k1, b), reciprocal rank fusion with a worked example, the full hybrid stack, query transformation prompts (HyDE, multi-query, step-back), reranking configuration

5. Grounding & Generation (4) — a complete grounded-assistant system prompt, context assembly rules, citation & abstention rules, conflict & staleness precedence

6. Evaluation (4) — golden set record format, the RAG triad scorecard, a release-gate harness spec, an LLM-as-judge rubric with calibration rules

7. Production & Governance (5) — latency budget worksheet, cost model worksheet, security checklist, the pre-launch governance gate, first-90-days operations

Who it's for: engineers and architects shipping retrieval systems inside real organizations — the same audience as the companion book.

Format: beautifully formatted PDF + Markdown source. Lifetime updates included.

About the author: Naveen Kumar Josyula — author of RAG Architecture: Designing Production-Grade Retrieval Systems and Enterprise AI Agents: From Pilot to Production (Amazon KDP). These templates are distilled from the book's production chapters and the working code of its companion course.

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