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Cookbook

Ready-to-use recipes that go beyond the basics. Each recipe is a self-contained guide with working code you can copy into your project.

  • Chatbot with Memory

    Build a conversational chatbot with sliding-window memory, automatic eviction, and persistent facts.

    Chatbot with Memory

  • RAG Pipeline

    Complete Retrieval-Augmented Generation with dense retrieval, hybrid search, reranking, and provider-formatted output.

    RAG Pipeline

  • Document Ingestion

    Ingest raw text and files, chunk with different strategies, enrich metadata, and index the results into a retriever.

    Document Ingestion

  • Custom Retriever

    Implement the Retriever protocol to create your own retriever and integrate it with ContextPipeline and HybridRetriever.

    Custom Retriever

  • Evaluation Workflow

    Evaluate retrieval quality with standard metrics and compare configurations using A/B testing with statistical significance.

    Evaluation Workflow

  • Agent with Tools

    Build an agent with custom tools, skills, and memory using the @tool decorator and SkillRegistry.

    Agent with Tools

  • Production Patterns

    Battle-tested patterns for deploying anchor in production: error handling, observability, performance tuning, and testing strategies.

    Production Patterns