[Docs] Add RAG failure modes & debug checklist (#223)#224
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This document provides a debugging checklist for teams using FlashRAG, outlining failure modes and a structured approach to identify issues in RAG pipelines.
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Really appreciate you including WFGY in FlashRAG. It’s great to see the 16-mode failure map being used as a structured debugging lens. Thank you for making it part of the repo. |
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Motivation
Many users are now building RAG pipelines directly on top of FlashRAG.
In practice, people often find that benchmarks look good, but the end-to-end system still fails in subtle ways (hallucinated answers, context drift, retrieval that looks fine but does not match the user’s intent, etc.). This PR proposes a small, docs-only checklist page that helps FlashRAG users reason about these common failure modes.
The checklist is written from a FlashRAG-centric perspective and can live entirely inside this repo. At the bottom of the page there is a short note that the table is adapted from an open-source “16 problem map” for RAG debugging (WFGY), but readers do not need to visit that project for the page to be useful.
What this PR does
docs/rag_failure_modes_and_debug_checklist.mdREADME.md:Scope
The goal is to give FlashRAG users a light-weight debugging companion when they start running their own RAG experiments on top of your framework.
Fixes #223.